eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology that allows programs to run in a sandboxed virtual machine within the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading kernel modules. It enables high-performance networking, security monitoring, observability, and tracing capabilities at the operating system level with minimal overhead. eBPF is governed as a standard by the eBPF Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
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- Type: Index
- Position: Standard
- Access: Open
- eBPF, Kernel, Linux, Networking, Observability, Security, Tracing
- Created: 2025-01-01
- Modified: 2026-04-28
eBPF is a kernel technology and standard rather than a hosted API. Implementations are exposed through libraries (libbpf, BCC, bpftrace, Cilium, etc.) and the Linux kernel syscall surface, not as a network API.
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