Deploy Grafana Beyla as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes for eBPF auto-instrumentation of HTTP and gRPC services without code changes

domain: grafana.com · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Create a Beyla DaemonSet manifest with the beyla container image, requesting the CAP_SYS_PTRACE and CAP_NET_ADMIN capabilities and a hostPID: true pod spec
  2. Configure the BEYLA_OPEN_PORT or BEYLA_SERVICE_NAME environment variables to target specific processes or use BEYLA_DISCOVERY_SERVICES for process auto-discovery
  3. Set the OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to point at the OTel Collector running as a DaemonSet or Deployment in the cluster
  4. Create RBAC resources (ServiceAccount, ClusterRole, ClusterRoleBinding) granting Beyla access to node-level process information
  5. Validate instrumentation by generating traffic and checking the Collector or backend for http.server.duration and rpc.server.duration metrics

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