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Open source eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that helps you easily get started with application observability
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The Chainguard Image for Grafana Beyla is meant to serve as a drop-in replacement for the official Grafana Beyla image. Like most other Chainguard Images, this image has few-to-zero CVEs and does not run as the root user.
Since Beyla uses eBPF to instrument applications, it requires certain kernel capabilities to run. When deploying with Docker or Kubernetes, you'll need to provide the necessary privileges.
Grafana Beyla automatically instruments your applications using eBPF to provide instant observability without code changes. It can be deployed as a sidecar or standalone container.
To run Beyla with Docker, you need to provide the necessary capabilities and mount the host's /sys
filesystem:
For Kubernetes deployments, Beyla can run as a DaemonSet or sidecar. Here's an example DaemonSet configuration:
Also you can use the official helm chart to deploy Beyla in your Kubernetes cluster. More details can be found in the Beyla Helm Chart documentation.
In addition to that you can find lots of quick start examples in the Beyla quickstart guides documentation.
Beyla can be configured through environment variables or a configuration file. Key configuration options include:
BEYLA_OPEN_PORT
: The port of the application to instrumentBEYLA_SERVICE_NAME
: Name for the instrumented serviceBEYLA_METRICS_ENDPOINT
: Prometheus metrics endpointBEYLA_TRACES_ENDPOINT
: OpenTelemetry traces endpointBEYLA_KUBERNETES_ENABLE
: Enable Kubernetes metadata enrichmentYou can find more options in the official documentation.
Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.
All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.
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In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest
or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.
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container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev
variant into a more minimal production image.
To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl
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