KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Have you already adopted eBPF to unlock powerful, dynamic observability at the kernel level? Are you looking to take the next step by integrating exemplars seamlessly into your observability workflows? If so, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of manually instrumenting applications for exemplar support—an approach that’s often tedious, error-prone, and difficult to maintain. But what if you could leverage your existing eBPF setup to automate exemplar creation for your applications without touching your application code?

eBPF's in-kernel aggregation capabilities, paired with OpenTelemetry's flexible observability framework, enable automatic generation of exemplars. We’ll dive into how eBPF dynamically collects metrics and traces, processes them at the source, and works with OpenTelemetry to correlate kernel-level and application-level observability—all with minimal overhead and maximum convenience.