grafana-beyla

Infra

Updated 6 days ago

Grafana-Beyla Overview

Secure your stack with a hardened Grafana-Beyla image freshly-built by Minimus. Minimus images always include the most up-to-date package version for all packages and dependencies contained in the image.

Grafana-Beyla is an eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that captures traces and RED metrics for HTTP/S and gRPC services without requiring code changes, redeploys, or language-specific agents. It attaches to a running process and sends the data to an OpenTelemetry endpoint or Prometheus, with support for Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Rust, and C/C++.

Try It Out

Beyla instruments another process by sharing its container's PID namespace, so start a sample HTTP service to instrument:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name nginx-hello reg.mini.dev/nginx-hello

Run Beyla against the sample service with the --privileged flag and a shared PID namespace to attach to the target process:

docker run --rm \
  -e BEYLA_OPEN_PORT=8080 \
  -e BEYLA_TRACE_PRINTER=text \
  --pid="container:nginx-hello" \
  --privileged \
  reg.mini.dev/grafana-beyla

Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser and refresh a few times to generate some traffic. Beyla prints the captured trace requests to stdout, for example:

time=2026-07-21T20:16:47.083Z level=INFO msg="instrumenting process" component=discover.traceAttacher cmd=/usr/bin/nginx pid=32 ino=1642459 type=generic service="" logenricher=false

Technical Considerations

The Grafana-Beyla image provided by Minimus is a slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from Docker Hub. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

Grafana-Beyla built by Minimus:

Runs as root to support required functions in alignment with the public image.
Drill down on the version specification tab to see the default user, listening ports, entrypoint, volumes, environment variables, etc.

The Payoff

A hardened, minimal image that will remain more secure for the long run and accrue vulnerabilities at a slower rate.

See the risk reduction dashboard for a detailed CVE comparison over the past 30 days.
Review the compliance report to see the default hardening and security configurations for the image.

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