eBPF Documentary

eBPF Case Studies

Here are some of the organizations that are using eBPF in production. If you’re using eBPF and aren’t on this list, please submit a pull request.

  • Google

    Google uses eBPF for security auditing, packet processing, and performance monitoring

  • Netflix

    Netflix uses eBPF at scale for network insights

  • Android

    Android uses eBPF to monitor network usage, power, and memory profiling

  • S&P Global

    S&P Global uses eBPF through Cilium for networking across multiple clouds and on-prem

  • Meta

    Meta uses eBPF to process and load balance every packet coming into their data centers

  • Cloudflare

    Cloudflare uses eBPF for network security, performance monitoring, and network observability

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft uses eBPF to enhance the observability and inspection of processes within Kubernetes

  • Polar Signals

    Polar Signals uses eBPF to monitor and measure cross-zone network traffic

  • Samsung

    Samsung uses eBPF in their android devices for networking

  • Ikea

    Ikea uses eBPF through Cilium for networking and load balancing in their private cloud

  • DoorDash

    DoorDash uses eBPF through BPFAgent for kernel level monitoring

  • Datadog

    Datadog uses eBPF for networking and security in their SaaS product

  • Alibaba

    Alibaba uses eBPF through Cilium to provide networking in their cloud

  • Red Hat

    Red Hat uses eBPF at scale for load balancing and tracing in their private cloud

  • Isovalent

    eBPF is the technlogy that powers Isovalent's enterpise networking, observability and security solutions

  • Seznam

    Seznam uses eBPF for load balancing

  • Trip.com

    Trip.com uses eBPF for load balancing

  • Bell

    Bell Canada uses eBPF to moderize telco networking with SRv6

  • Capital One

    Capital One uses eBPF to secure their cloud infrastructure

  • Walmart

    Walmart uses eBPF for edge cloud load balancing

  • Palantir

    Palantir uses eBPF to debug networking problems

  • Cruise

    Cruise uses eBPF to monitor GPU performance

  • Digital Ocean

    Digital Ocean uses eBPF to monitor GPU performance

  • Yahoo

    Yahoo uses eBPF for load balancing and performance analysis

  • Bytedance

    Bytedance uses eBPF for system tracing

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn uses eBPF for Infrastructure Observability

  • The New York Times

    The New York Times uses eBPF for networking

  • Line Coporation

    Line Corporation uses eBPF at scale for load balancing and tracing in their private cloud

  • Exein

    Exein uses eBPF in their open source runtime security framework for IoT

  • Ant Group

    Ant Group uses eBPF in their cloud native security platform for vulnerability live-patching, and system anomaly detection

  • Sysdig

    Sysdig uses eBPF to enable high-performance system call tracing, facilitate container-aware troubleshooting, conduct security auditing, and provide rich insights and data from the kernel

  • Core Tech

    Core Tech uses eBPF to filter out unwanted traffic and mitigate DDoS attacks

  • ArvanCloud

    ArvanCloud uses eBPF for their CDN product

  • Canopus

    Canopus Networks developed “SuperNetflow,” a powerful observability pipeline that leverages eBPF to monitor and classify traffic at scale

  • Wikimedia

    Wikimedia Foundation developed Liberica, a load balancer that supports multiple forwarding planes including Katran, Meta’s XDP-based load balancer built on eBPF

  • Rakuten Mobile

    Rakuten Mobile uses eBPF for anomaly detection and security in cloud native telecom networks

  • free5GC

    free5GC uses eBPF for improving the data plane latency on Kubernetes deployment