Inspektor Gadget

Good milestone for Inspektor Gadget: its first independent security audit is complete. Thanks to @ostifofficial.bsky.social , @cncf.io , and @inspektor-gadget.io for the transparency around the process and fixes. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Linuxan... #Kubernetes #eBPF #OpenSource #Security

Our external security audit with @shielder.com @ostifofficial.bsky.social and @cncf.io is out! 3 CVEs were found, all of which have been addressed in v0.51.1. Thank you to everyone involved inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2026/04...

ICYMI @headlamp.dev + @inspektor-gadget.io + HolmesGPT = Magic!🪄 Check out how you can easily troubleshoot and remediate Kubernetes issues using a conversational approach all in one place in this KubeCon keynote! youtu.be/Apha61UYfLY?...

If you are at #KubeCon please stop by the Inspektor Gadget kiosk at the Project Pavilion on Wednesday (tomorrow) from 14:00-17:00 at Hall 5, P-10A.

Check out the new Inspektor Gadget powered toolset in HolmesGPT! Thanks, @mqasimsarfraz.com for the contributions! inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2026/03...

Our 2025 year in review is out! Thank you to everyone who made 2025 such a transformative year for the project and we look forward to all that 2026 has in store! inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/12...

❄️Our holiday gift to you❄️ tcpdump for Kubernetes! In this blog we share how we've taken tcpdump to the next level with K8s context to make it easier than ever to debug networking issues - including with Wireshark! inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/12...

ICYMI here is the recording of last week's community call: youtu.be/zUKFQn-YixQ

Happy Friday! ICYMI The Inspektor Gadget Contribfest at KubeCon NA was fantastic! You can recreate it by checking out the materials we covered here: github.com/inspektor-ga...

In case you heard about the recent runc container escape vulnerabilities we hope you've upgraded. Here's our take on using eBPF for mitigation in a new blog post! (Reminder to upgrade to a fixed runc version though!) inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/12...

@mqasimsarfraz.com, an @inspektor-gadget.io maintainer, chatted with @lachie.bsky.social about Inspektor Gadget's great observability capabilities! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99_...

Inspektor Gadget v0.45.0 is live! The tcpdump gadget was introduced, you can use it to capture packets in container contexts and allows applying pcap-compatible filters Also, Inspektor Gadget now supports verifying gadgets signed with Notation. github.com/inspektor-ga...

Yay! Recording of our talk (@flyth.bsky.social) at @containerdays.bsky.social is live! Includes some live coding and demos! youtu.be/LgHGvzqAwIs?...

Had a great chat with @cloudnativeboy.bsky.social about what's new in @inspektor-gadget.io This is also part of a new short video series called Cloud Native Wisdom - check it out!

Check out this blog post about our Traceloop gadget!

Almost ready for our @containerdays.bsky.social talk next week 🚀 Can’t wait to share ideas and have a great time with everyone there! @flyth.bsky.social @inspektor-gadget.io #eBPF #Containers #Kubernetes

One of the Inspektor Gadget mentees, Kapil Sareen, took on upgrading the Inspect command! Check out his blog post here: inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/05...

v0.41.0 is now available! With this version, we ported profile_cpu and advise_networkpolicy to image-based gadgets! We also added top_process. This gadget reports process statistics, such as CPU percentage and memory usage! github.com/inspektor-ga...

Each year, the @linuxfoundation.org awards scholarships as part of its Shubhra Kar Linux Foundation Training Scholarship Program. The program aims to increase diversity in open source technology by providing access to courses and cert exams. Apply by April 30! www.linuxfoundation.org/about/lift-s...

Inspektor Gadget v0.39.0 is available! With this version, building WASM programs now relies on go instead of tinygo! We’ve also reduced the memory footprint by making some tweaks to container collection. Details in the release notes: github.com/inspektor-ga...

Yay. @inspektor-gadget.io made to the highlights! \m/

#Contribfest was a blast! It was so nice to meet so many Inspektors and work through the labs with you all!

One of our favorite events of #KubeCon is #Contribfest. In this hands on session you’ll learn all about Inspektor Gadget, from using it to even writing your own gadget. See you in just under an hour! #eBPF #InspektorGadget #Kubernetes

Join @mqasimsarfraz.com at the Azure booth at 12pm to learn how you can use OSS tools to debug failed DNS requests! #KubeCon

Loved seeing so many folks today at the project pavilion! We'll see you tomorrow for Contribfest! #KubeCon

Reminder to stop by kiosk 22B at #KubeCon to say hello!

@ahrkrak.bsky.social shared an awesome keynote about @headlamp.dev at #KubeCon! Did you know we recently released an Inspektor Gadget plugin for Headlamp? Read more here: inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/03...

We're ready to chat with many of you at Kiosk 22B tomorrow at the project pavilion at #KubeCon! We will be with our friends from the @headlamp.dev project 😀See you soon!

So cool to see @inspektor-gadget.io mentioned in 3 talks this afternoon at @rejekts.io Whether it's security, troubleshooting, or monitoring it's awesome to see the broad applications of the project and eBPF on display. #kubescape #retina #dns

So happy to present my first @rejekts.io talk about DNS and @inspektor-gadget.io Love the vibe of the event! #Rejekts2025

On Day 2 of @rejekts.io @mqasimsarfraz.com will present “Understanding and Debugging DNS in Kubernetes Clusters” at 2:35pm BST. You can stream the session live here: www.youtube.com/live/Mi62RQk...

For those heading to London for KubeCon and @rejekts.io we hope you can swing by an Inspektor Gadget talk! We also have a Contribfest. inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/03...

ICYMI our friends at Kubescape reached Incubation! Kubescape uses eBPF via Inspektor Gadget inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/03...

We are at SCaLE @socallinuxexpo.bsky.social ! Come to our talk Saturday at 3:45pm PST www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/pr... We will also be at the Azure Booth so feel free to swing by and say hello.

Version v0.38.0 of Inspektor Gadget is now available! It includes a new gadget to profile qdisc latency and memory improvements for many gadgets. For all release assets and the full changelog see: github.com/inspektor-ga...

🚨New Blog Post🚨 Transform Your Kubernetes CLI Experience: Writing K9s Plugins by Leveraging Inspektor Gadget by @mqasimsarfraz.com highlights how to use gadgets to create K9s plugins. K9s is a terminal based UI to interact with K8s clusters. Give it a read! inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/02...

Applications to the @linuxfoundation.org's 2025 Term 1 Mentorship Program are now open. We're hosting 3 mentorships this term and encourage you to apply at mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org!

Applications to the @linuxfoundation.org's 2025 Term 1 Mentorship Program are now open. We're hosting 3 mentorships this term and encourage you to apply at mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org!

You can read more about the deprecation of built-in gadgets in our most recent blog post. inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2025/02...

🚀Today we released v0.37.0! This includes the announcement that we are deprecating built-in gadgets in 6 months. github.com/inspektor-ga...

We have another blog post for you, Inspektors! Bharadwaja MeherRushi Chittapragada writes about chaos engineering gadgets. www.inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2024/11... Bharadwaja joined the team as part of @linuxfoundation.org ‘s mentorship program.

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Are you using Inspektor Gadget? Join the discussion and let us know how! This will help us identify patterns in usage and prioritize the roadmap github.com/inspektor-ga...

v0.36.0 is out now! Highlights include support for OTel logs and uniform event filtering. github.com/inspektor-ga...

Happy New Year, Inspektors!

🎄Happy Holidays, Inspektors!🎄Our gift to you this holiday season is Event Generation! Kapil Sharma writes about this capability in a new blog post. Kapil joined the team as a part of @linuxfoundation.org’s mentorship program www.inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2024/12...

🚨New Blogpost🚨 Snehil Shah writes about Inspektor Gadget’s new gadget for detecting deadlocks using uprobes. Snehil joined the team as a mentee as a part of @linuxfoundation.org’s mentorship program. www.inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2024/12...

🗓️ Dev Sync happening today at 7:30am PST. Join us! You can find details here www.cncf.io/calendar/

🚨New Blogpost🚨 Sanskar Sharma writes about Inspektor Gadget’s new unit testing framework for gadgets. Sanskar joined the team as a mentee as a part of @linuxfoundation.org’s mentorship program. www.inspektor-gadget.io/blog/2024/12...

v0.35.0 is out! Be aware that the format for JSON output for image based gadgets was changed. See the release notes here: github.com/inspektor-ga...