Sep 16, 2025
eBPF Foundation Awards $100,000 in Research Grants to Advance eBPF Safety and Efficiency
Research projects will strengthen eBPF programmability, runtime safety, and datacenter energy efficiency through verifier-cooperative instrumentation and QoS-aware power management SAN FRANCISCO – September 16, 2025 – The eBPF Foundation, which focuses on advancing the state of the art for eBPF by directing upstream development, promoting the use of the technology…
Aug 14, 2025
eBPF Foundation Announces Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program
The eBPF Foundation is excited to announce a new “eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship” to reward and support innovative ideas that will grow the eBPF ecosystem for an increasingly global and diverse set of users, contributors, and end users. The program's goal is to cultivate a vibrant, skilled, and…
Aug 12, 2025
Rakuten Mobile Adopts eBPF to Strengthen Anomaly Detection and Security in Cloud-Native Telecom Networks
Download this case study in PDF format Overview As mobile networks transition to virtualized and cloud-native architectures, traditional monitoring tools struggle to keep pace. To address this challenge, Rakuten Mobile adopted open source eBPF technology, originally designed for cloud and enterprise observability, and adapted it to the complex demands of…
Aug 5, 2025
Bouncing on trampolines to run eBPF programs
This blog post is the second installment in Bootlin eBPF blog post series, following the blog post about eBPF selftests. As eBPF is more and more used in the industry, eBPF kernel developers give considerable attention to eBPF performance: some standard use cases like system monitoring involve hundreds of eBPF…
Jul 22, 2025
Case Study: SuperNetflow – Reinventing Network Observability with eBPF
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Canopus Networks is a cloud native network observability company specializing in extracting deep, real-time insights from high-speed networks. To address the growing demands of telecommunications and enterprise operators for visibility into user experience and application behavior, Canopus developed “SuperNetflow,” a powerful observability…
Jul 8, 2025
Case Study: Datadog Uses eBPF to Improve Network Observability Accuracy and Performance
Download this case study in PDF format Overview Datadog Cloud Network Monitoring (CNM) collects Layer 4 network data, which is then combined with other data streams during processing. This allows users to not only dive into their raw network telemetry but also to slice and dice the data using unconventional…
Jul 2, 2025
Software Engineering Daily Podcast: ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang
Software Engineering Daily interviewed ByteDance's Chen Tang about the company's use of eBPF. Listen in here, and read our case study about the implementation here.
Jun 3, 2025
Research Update: Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF (Part 2)
The post below is an update on a research project sponsored by the eBPF Foundation. It is the second in a series of posts about this research (you can read the first here). The post was prepared by Zhe Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; wangzhe12@ict.ac.cn), and…
Apr 8, 2025
Research Update: Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF
The post below is an update on a research project sponsored by the eBPF Foundation. It is the first in a series of posts about this research (you can read the second here). The post was prepared by Zhe Wang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; wangzhe12@ict.ac.cn), and…
Mar 25, 2025
Advancing eBPF: Research Progress from the eBPF Foundation’s Sponsored Projects
The eBPF Foundation is committed to fostering innovation and expanding the boundaries of eBPF technology. In 2024, we granted $250,000 to five academic research projects aimed at improving eBPF’s performance, security, and usability. As we step into 2025, we are excited to share significant progress from each of these projects,…