• Observability APM Infrastructure Monitoring Log AI DEM Security News Observability APM Infrastructure Monitoring Log AI DEM Security News Observability APM Infrastructure Monitoring Log AI DEM Security News Observability APM Infrastructure Monitoring Log AI DEM Security News New Relic eBPF: Network Metrics Kernel-level network observability that complements APM-no code required ByBen Rivera, Product Marketing Consultant Modern distributed apps don’t just fail in code-they often fail at the network layer, where blind spots make it difficult to prove what’s really happening. • When latency spikes, transactions slow down, or connections intermittently fail, teams often bounce between APM, infrastructure dashboards, and network tools, trying to manually correlate symptoms into a root cause. • That’s why today, atNew Relic Advance, we’re announcingeBPF: Network Metrics-now inpreview, a lightweight, kernel-level network visibility capability with zero instrumentation across application, infrastructure, and network layers. • What makes it different? • eBPF: Network Metrics captures deep TCP and DNS telemetry directly from the Linux kernel (no code changes) and surfaces it in a unified workflow alongside your APM and infrastructure data-so teams can pinpoint root causes faster, reduce downtime, and cut costly context switching. • Kernel-level TCP and DNS signals, correlated with application entities in a single view.

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  • Modern distributed apps don’t just fail in code-they often fail at the network layer, where blind spots make it difficult to prove what’s really happening. When latency spikes, transactions slow down, or connections intermittently fail, teams often bounce between APM, infrastructure dashboards, and network tools, trying to manually correlate symptoms into a root cause. That’s why today, at New Relic Advance, we’re announcing eBPF: Network Metrics-now in preview, a lightweight, kernel-level network visibility capability with zero instrumentation across application, infrastructure, and network l

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