Observing GenAI-Infrastructure: You Can't Protect What You Can't See - DEVNET-3310#
Cisco Live Europe 2025 (Amsterdam) digest Program Core pick Amsterdam · 9–14 February 2025
Speakers: Shannon McFarland (Cisco)
- Why: Directly combines the PM's cloud-native networking stack (Cilium/eBPF, Tetragon) with the emerging operational problem of GenAI workloads and agents — where runtime security and observability for LLM infrastructure is largely unsettled.
- What: A hands-on technical session on using OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Cilium with eBPF, and Tetragon to observe and secure GenAI infrastructure including AI agents, with practical demos rather than slideware alone. (from abstract only)
- How: eBPF-based agents (Cilium/Hubble for flow-level visibility, Tetragon for policy enforcement and syscall-level runtime security) are wired to OpenTelemetry traces and Jaeger, correlating what agents are actually doing — network flows, process events, data movement — into one observability picture.
- Where applicable: Kubernetes-hosted GenAI/agent workloads primarily; the eBPF toolchain is open source and vendor-neutral, so this transfers outside Cisco shops. The specific value is the application to agentic/AI serving stacks, which few production runbooks cover yet.