Traditional monitoring approaches reach their limits in modern cloud environments. Distributed systems, dynamic scaling, and complex dependencies require new methods for monitoring and optimizing applications. Cloud observability is based on logs, metrics, and traces, which together provide a comprehensive picture of system health.
Grafana Beyla and Grafana Pyroscope are powerful open-source tools available for in-depth analysis. Beyla uses eBPF for agentless tracing and metrics collection with minimal overhead, while Pyroscope enables continuous profiling to uncover bottlenecks at the code level. This combination allows developers to specifically identify and resolve latency, resource usage, and performance issues. The targeted use of these technologies helps optimize cloud architectures, reduce downtime, and sustainably improve system performance. Both solutions can be seamlessly integrated into Kubernetes, the industry standard for cluster orchestration. We’ll see how this works in practice through a live demo.