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Instrument Go Without Changing a Single Line – Kemal Akkoyun

GopherCon UK — Aug 25, 2026 — talk

Why watch

A comprehensive survey of production-ready techniques for instrumenting Go applications without modifying source code, covering eBPF agents, compile-time rewriting, shared-library injection, and USDT probes. The talk compares practical approaches available in OpenTelemetry and the broader ecosystem, includes overhead benchmarking, and provides a decision framework for choosing the right instrumentation strategy for production services.