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agent: define new flags to control Cilium's datapath events notification #548

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Cherry-pick of cilium#30063 (430ccca).


This commit introduces three new configuration flags for the Cilium agent, allowing users to choose the bpf event types they want to expose to Cilium monitor and Hubble.

  • --bpf-events-drop-enabled Expose 'drop' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)
  • --bpf-events-policy-verdict-enabled Expose 'policy verdict' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)
  • --bpf-events-trace-enabled Expose 'trace' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)

The default values for these flags remain set to true, not changing the current behaviour.

In our case, we found particularly useful to disable the TraceNotification in order to reduce the CPU overhead on some of our nodes when Hubble is enabled as we were mostly interested into dropped packets.

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@EricMountain EricMountain marked this pull request as ready for review February 23, 2024 10:53
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This commit introduces three new configuration flags for the Cilium agent, allowing users to choose the bpf event types they want to expose to Cilium monitor and Hubble.
 - `--bpf-events-drop-enabled`                                   Expose 'drop' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)
 - `--bpf-events-policy-verdict-enabled`                         Expose 'policy verdict' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)
 - `--bpf-events-trace-enabled`                                  Expose 'trace' events for Cilium monitor and/or Hubble (default true)

The default values for these flags remain set to `true`, not changing the current behaviour.

In our case, we found particularly useful to disable the TraceNotification in order to reduce the CPU overhead on some of our nodes when Hubble is enabled as we were mostly interested into dropped packets.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Visonneau <maxime.visonneau@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Maxime VISONNEAU <maxime.visonneau@gmail.com>
@EricMountain EricMountain force-pushed the eric.mountain/fix-conflicts-argh branch from 0014879 to 0e449c8 Compare February 23, 2024 13:42
@EricMountain EricMountain merged commit a78fc46 into v1.13-dd Feb 23, 2024
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