Benchmarks Don't Lie: The Real Cost of Security Agents

Episode 193 of the eBPF & Cilium Office Hours live stream (eCHO).

About the Episode

Who’s really eating your CPU? Security agents are often in the spotlight, but Henrik Rexed’s benchmarks uncover that eBPF itself comes with a price tag.

In this episode, I host Henrik Rexed (CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace) for a deep dive into the real cost of visibility and security in modern systems.

Topics Covered

  • Runtime security agent benchmarks (Falco, Tetragon, KubeArmor, Kubescape)
  • eBPF performance impact and CPU footprint
  • How to measure and compare security solutions
  • Best practices for security observability

Guest

Henrik Rexed - CNCF Ambassador, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, creator of the YouTube channel “Is It Observable”.

Watch

Watch the full episode on YouTube.