Anteon vs Inspektor Gadget

Anteon is an open-source platform for Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing, offered as Cloud, Self-Hosted, and an AWS Marketplace deployment. Its monitoring builds a Kubernetes service map without code instrumentation or sidecars and displays live CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics. Monitoring uses the Alaz eBPF agent as a DaemonSet on the cluster. For performance testing, users can create no-code scenarios, generate load from over 25 countries, and import tests from Postman. Integrations include OpsGenie, email, Slack, and Prometheus. The product supports Linux, macOS, web, and API access; self-hosting supports Linux and macOS but not Windows. Its load testing API is listed for Cloud and Self-Hosted Enterprise, not Self-Hosted Community Edition. Cloud Pro costs $99 a month until usage exceeds the included amount, then charges depend on usage. Users can set a hard limit that halts operations. Pro includes two weeks of retention and no seat limit; a 14-day trial is available.

Inspektor Gadget is an open-source toolkit and framework for collecting eBPF data and inspecting Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts. Its gadgets package eBPF programs as OCI images that can be deployed to examine systems. The toolkit enriches low-level kernel data with context such as Kubernetes pod and container names, and can export collected information to observability tools. WebAssembly modules can process data and customize operators; developers can also use the framework through a Go library. In Kubernetes, it runs as a DaemonSet, with one pod on each cluster node. Project gadgets require Linux kernel 5.10 or later with BTF enabled. Supported Kubernetes environments include Minikube, AKS, EKS, GKS, OpenShift, and Talos; AWS Fargate, Azure Container Instances, and GKE Autopilot are listed as unsupported. Official image-based gadgets are signed, and operators can restrict which gadgets may run by digest, tag, or image prefix. Inspektor Gadget has no long-term support releases: only the latest release receives maintenance and security updates.