Tracking: 2025 Goals

[MrAlias]

These are the goals we identified for 2025 in our first meeting of the year.

Prioritization

Plan to accomplish in first 3 months

• Swiss maps update
• Beta release

Plan to accomplish this year

• bpf_probe_write_user alternatives
• Custom probe API
• Custom handler API
• Binary object file tracking
• Beyla integration
• Sampling

Goals

Swiss maps update

• Tracking issue: Support HTTP Traceparent header field reading in Go 1.24 #1318
• Blockers: none
• Sponsor: @MrAlias @grcevski

Beta release

• Tracking Project: https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/projects/50
• Blockers: none
• Sponsor: @MrAlias

bpf_probe_write_user alternatives

• Tracking issue: bpf_probe_write_user helper function is locked down since linux kernel 5.14-rc6 #290
• Blockers: design and planning
• Sponsor: @grcevski @damemi

Custom probe API

• Tracking issue: Custom Probes #1105
• Blockers: design and planning
• Sponsor: @MrAlias @RonFed @damemi

Custom handler API

• Tracking issue: Support custom exporting directly with pdata structures #1398
• Blockers: design and planning
• Sponsor: @MrAlias

Binary object file tracking

• Tracking issue: Include generated object files in commit history and published packages #1233
• Blockers: design and planning
• Sponsor: @MrAlias @damemi

Beyla integration

• Tracking issue: [Donation Proposal]: Beyla, eBPF auto-instrumentation tool for metrics and traces  community#2406
• Blockers: community agreement
• Sponsor: @grcevski @MrAlias

Sampling

• Tracking issue: Sampling support #953
• Blockers: design and planning for more sampling options
• Sponsor: @RonFed @edeNFed

[MrAlias]

2025-02-04 SIG meeting check-in

• [Nikola/Mike] bpf_probe_write_user alternatives check-in
  • Depends on multi-process/daemon support
• [Tyler/Ron/Mike] Custom probe API check-in
  • Mike to follow up with scheduling a kick-off meeting
• [Tyler/Ron] Custom handler API check-in
  • Talked through iterative design approach
• [Tyler] Multi-process support check-in
  • No update, likely depends on the Probe API, but more though needed here
• [Tyler/Mike] Binary object file tracking check-in
  • No update
  • Talks on the issue were not accepted
  • We can likely still explore all the options and make a blog post
  • Need to make explore before we make a decision
• [Nikola/Tyler] Beyla integration check-in
  • Tyler is working on a "Due Diligence" doc. More to be shared next week
• [Ron/Eden] Sampling check-in
  • Depends on the Probe API
  • Possible improvements for probe specific sampling: Issue Comment/PR forthcoming

[MrAlias]

Removing multi-process support based on our updated design goals: #1884