Collecting data for monitoring and observability is fundamental to modern systems design. We want this data to be relevant and the impact of collecting this data to be as small as possible. The eBPF subsystem of the Linux kernel has proven to be the tool of choice of collecting such data.
While eBPF programs can be extremely powerful, they require a specialized domain of knowledge to write and implement. This talk will give a high-level introduction to eBPF and introduce Inspektor Gadget, an open-source framework that makes eBPF accessible to everyone by providing off-the-shelf eBPF programs packaged in OCI images which we call Gadgets. We will share how Inspektor Gadget “supercharges” eBPF by providing additional functionality to enrich, process and export data. We will demonstrate how end users can leverage eBPF using a diverse set of “gadgets.” And we will show how eBPF programmers can use the Inspektor Gadget framework to neatly package their programs to share across the community.