Unlocking Efficient Application Performance with Coroot: An Open-Source Observability and APM Solution
A New Open-Source Tool Enhances Observability and Application Performance Monitoring
Coroot, a recently released open-source tool, offers a comprehensive solution for observability and application performance monitoring (APM). Written in Go, Coroot’s core software is accompanied by several companion repositories, including coroot-node-agent, which focuses on collecting telemetry data across systems.
Leveraging eBPF Technology
By leveraging extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology, Coroot gathers metrics and traces inter-service communications without requiring manual instrumentation of application code. This approach enables engineering teams to collect standard observability signals, including metrics, logs, traces, and continuous profiling data, which are then made available in dashboards and structured views.
Key Features
The tool provides users with a detailed understanding of service health, allowing them to track request paths through service maps and examine performance profiles down to CPU and memory behavior over time. A key component of Coroot is its eBPF-based agent, which runs on nodes to expose container metrics in the Prometheus format and trace container TCP communications.
Predefined Inspections
In addition to its data collection capabilities, Coroot features predefined inspections that scan telemetry data and summarize conditions such as service level objective (SLO) compliance and common failure patterns. By leveraging kernel-level data collection, Coroot’s visibility model aims to reduce the need for manual instrumentation, aligning with broader trends in cloud-native operations where teams seek to balance signal coverage with ease of setup.
Availability and Future
Coroot is available for free on GitHub, offering a valuable resource for organizations seeking to enhance their observability and APM capabilities. As the open-source community continues to explore approaches that reduce configuration burdens while addressing reliability needs, Coroot is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of observability and APM.
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