
Sub-1% Overhead Tail-Latency Histograms With Per-CPU eBPF Maps
Why user-space OpenTelemetry spans miss kernel socket-buffer queueing delays, and how log-linear BPF per-CPU arrays capture every microsecond stall at 420,000 requests per second.
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Why user-space OpenTelemetry spans miss kernel socket-buffer queueing delays, and how log-linear BPF per-CPU arrays capture every microsecond stall at 420,000 requests per second.