ebpf network monitoring support

[novohool]

Component(s)

collector

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

kind: OpenTelemetryCollector ebpf network monitoring support
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/blob/main/charts/opentelemetry-ebpf

Describe the solution you'd like

get network incoming/outcoming/dns info

Describe alternatives you've considered

add also add it's metrics to prometheus service.

Additional context

No response

[yuriolisa]

I will discuss that topic with the @open-telemetry/operator-approvers.

[swiatekm]

Could you go into more detail about what exactly you'd like to the operator to support? Are we talking about a separate CRD for the EBPF collector?

[novohool]

Could you go into more detail about what exactly you'd like to the operator to support? Are we talking about a separate CRD for the EBPF collector?

The current opentelemetry operator does not support opentelemetry ebpf. What we are talking about here is the support of operator crd for ebpf.

[swiatekm]

From what I understand, the EBPF stack is a set of applications which can ultimately emit metrics via OTLP. If we wanted to directly support this, I think we'd introduce a separate CRD for it, maybe a small embedded section in the collector CRD similar to how we want the target allocator to work. Either way, this would be a significant undertaking, and needs to be discussed during our next SIG meeting.