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Set up the OpenTelemetry eBPF collector to capture network-level telemetry
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opentelemetry.io
· 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed
Verified steps
Deploy the otel-ebpf-profiler or network-explorer component as a privileged DaemonSet on each node
Configure the kernel collector to point its OTLP exporter at the OTel Collector pipeline
Define which network namespaces or pods to include or exclude using the selector configuration
Confirm the host has the required kernel headers or BTF file present for the eBPF programs to load
Correlate the captured network spans with application-level spans using the same trace-context headers
Known gotchas
eBPF programs are JIT-compiled at load time; a kernel version mismatch causes silent failures rather than obvious errors
High-traffic nodes can produce large volumes of spans from network telemetry; apply head sampling or filtering early in the pipeline
The eBPF collector runs as root with significant host access; ensure pod security policies or admission controllers are updated accordingly
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