{"slug": "ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services", "title": "eBPF in Go: Observability for AI-Generated Services", "summary": "A developer used eBPF with Go to debug a production issue in an AI-generated service where P95 latency spiked from 40ms to 4 seconds due to excessive kernel-level file I/O calls invisible to traditional tools. The tutorial demonstrates attaching eBPF programs to syscalls to trace kernel behavior without modifying the kernel or restarting services.", "body_md": "eBPF in Go: Observability for AI-Generated Services\n\nA hands-on tutorial on using eBPF with Go for kernel-level observability to debug production issues in AI-generated services.\n\nI recently hit a wall debugging a Go service that was generating AI code. P95 latency jumped from 40ms to 4 seconds with no app-level visibility into what was happening. Traditional logging and profiling tools were useless - the issue was happening at the kernel level.\n\nAI-generated code often lacks context about kernel interactions. eBPF lets you trace:\n\nAll without modifying your kernel or restarting services.\n\n```\npackage main\n\nimport (\"fmt\"\"os\"\"  \")\n\nfunc main() {// Load the eBPF programobjs := &struct {TraceOpen *ebpf.Program `ebpf:\"trace_open\"`}{}\n\ncollSpec, err := ebpf.LoadCollectionSpec(\"trace.pbf\")\nif err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n}\n\nif err := collSpec.LoadAndAssign(objs, nil); err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n}\n\n// Attach to the open syscall\nkp, err := ebpf.Kprobe(\"do_syscall_64\")\nif err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n}\n\nif err := objs.TraceOpen.Attach(kp); err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n}\n\nfmt.Println(\"Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to exit\")\n<-make(chan struct{})\n}\n```\n\nThis approach helped me identify that AI-generated services were making excessive file I/O calls that weren’t visible in application logs. Once we added eBPF tracing, we could see the actual kernel-level behavior and optimize accordingly.\n\nI’ve published a complete working example with step-by-step instructions:\n\n[https://cheikhhseck.medium.com/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services-9aae7573b823](https://cheikhhseck.medium.com/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services-9aae7573b823)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services/177181#post_1", "published_at": "2026-06-26 09:08:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 09:10:12.495829+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["eBPF", "Go"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ebpf-in-go-observability-for-ai-generated-services.jsonld"}}