Alternatives to Kerno

Kubeshark is positioned for SREs, network engineers, AI assistants, and agents working on root-cause analysis, incident response, and network reliability.

Metoro suits teams profiling Kubernetes workloads that want to connect performance data with traces, logs, metrics, and deployment context.

bpftrace

bpftrace suits Linux users and organizations doing kernel or application tracing, profiling, and debugging.

Anteon suits teams monitoring Kubernetes services or running performance tests from no-code scenarios.

groundcover

It suits teams monitoring production environments that want to collect telemetry without manual instrumentation.

Caretta suits Kubernetes operators who want service-network visibility on Linux and can run a self-hosted Helm deployment.

DeepFlow

DeepFlow suits teams monitoring complex cloud and cloud-native environments that need tracing, profiling, and infrastructure-linked observability data.

Parca

Parca suits teams that want to profile production systems and query profiles across processes or code versions.

Gyeeta suits teams operating self-hosted Linux infrastructure that need TCP service and process visibility without instrumenting applications.

Inspektor Gadget suits operators and developers inspecting Linux hosts or Kubernetes clusters with eBPF-based tools.

Tetragon

Tetragon is aimed at security teams monitoring Kubernetes workloads, process behavior, privileges, files, and network activity.

Kindling is for fiction writers who plan, including plotters, pantsers, and writers between those approaches.

Odigos

Odigos suits engineers and security teams investigating production behavior or containing attacks, including teams using Kubernetes, VMs or bare metal.

Pixie

Pixie suits developers who need observability and debugging for supported Kubernetes environments and can run Linux nodes.

Qpoint

Community is positioned for individuals and small teams, while Team is aimed at IT operations and security teams.

Tracee suits Linux operators handling runtime security, compliance, troubleshooting, or forensics.

Pyroscope may suit developers and teams profiling applications written in its listed languages, across CPU, memory, and thread use.