The idea here is to capture a lot of the informal knowledge around how to best debug a given service. Using eBPF, a relatively new way to extend the Linux kernel, the Pixie platform can collect data right at the source and without the need for an agent.Īt the core of the Pixie developer experience are what the company calls 'Pixie scripts.' These allow developers to write their debugging workflows, though the company also provides its own set of these and anybody in the community can contribute and share them as well. And while most similar tools focus on operators and IT teams, Pixie set out to build a tool that developers would want to use. From the outset, the Pixie Labs team designed the service to focus on providing observability for cloud-native workloads running on Kubernetes clusters.
The Pixie Labs brand and product will remain in place and allow New Relic to extend its platform to the edge. Today, the company is announcing its acquisition by New Relic, the publicly traded monitoring and observability platform. Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from GV.
