Gyeeta vs Inspektor Gadget

Gyeeta is a free, open-source observability tool for Linux that runs in a self-hosted setup. It uses eBPF and kernel statistics to monitor hosts, services, and processes without application instrumentation. For TCP services, it reports query rates, latency, network throughput, active connections, and process resource use. Automatic discovery finds TCP services, clients, and dependencies without code changes or configuration inputs. Algorithms can identify service degradation or contention and suggest a probable cause. You can inspect results in a Web UI or query REST APIs, including queries spanning multiple hosts, with JSON responses. Alert notifications support email, Slack, PagerDuty, and webhooks. Documentation says data remains in-house. Installation is available through shell scripts, Helm charts, Docker containers, rpm or deb packages, and tar packages. The architecture documentation describes monitoring tens of thousands of hosts with one central server and intermediate servers. Gyeeta supports x86_64 Linux hosts with kernel 4.4 or newer.

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.