Java TLS has been a blind spot for eBPF-based #observability tools for years. JSSE runs entirely inside the JVM with no exported symbols and nothing to attach to.

Here is how to solve it: https://coroot.com/blog/java-tls-instrumentation-with-ebpf/

Benchmarking our eBPF Java TLS agent against OpenTelemetry, Coroot added only +15% CPU overhead vs +38% from OTEL, which dropped 20% of requests under load.

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