Introduction

Modern enterprises face a critical visibility challenge: their applications depend on an ever-expanding web of service connections - both across team boundaries within an organization (east-west) and to external third-party services (north-south). As organizations scale, they accumulate hundreds of undocumented dependencies, each introducing potential:

• Security risks from unmonitored data flows

• Reliability issues from unpredictable dependencies

• Operational blind spots complicating troubleshooting

• Compliance gaps in sensitive data handling

• Hidden costs from inefficient service usage

Traditional Monitoring Falls Short

Existing tools operate far from where connections originate, creating critical visibility gaps:

• No Process Context: They can't identify which specific processes are making calls

• Missing Identity: They lose essential context about service identity

• Encryption Blindness: They only see traffic after encryption, if at all

• Limited Payload Insight: They lack visibility into the actual data being transmitted

This leads to a fundamental problem: organizations don't truly know what's flowing between their services or why.

A Process-Aware Approach

Qpoint takes a fundamentally different approach by operating directly at the source of each connection. Using lightweight eBPF agents, we provide unprecedented visibility into all service traffic where it matters most – at its origin.

Process-Level Intelligence

Traditional monitoring solutions often struggle to provide detailed context about service interactions. Qpoint addresses this limitation by offering comprehensive process attribution for every connection, whether to internal or external services. Our solution identifies exactly which processes initiate connections while maintaining complete service context and identity. This extends to detailed container and pod-level information, providing a complete understanding of all service communication patterns.

Visibility at the Source

By operating where connections originate, Qpoint can:

• See and analyze traffic before encryption occurs

• Provide detailed payload visibility without certificate management

• Maintain service identity throughout the connection lifecycle

• Offer this deep visibility without any application changes

Key Capabilities

1. Comprehensive Service Connection Discovery

• Automatic discovery of all service dependencies (both internal and external)

• Real-time inventory of connections across distributed environments

• Identification of undocumented integrations and unknown endpoints

2. Pre-Encryption Traffic Visibility

• Observes requests/responses before TLS encryption—no certificates or proxies needed

• Captures headers, payload metadata, and errors for deep troubleshooting

• Provides insights without breaking encryption or security models

3. Process-Level Attribution

• Links each connection to the specific application, service, or container

• Pinpoints which process is calling which service in real time

• Maps dependencies across team and organizational boundaries

4. Reliability, Cost & Usage Analytics

• Monitors SLA compliance, error rates, and performance metrics across all services

• Tracks API calls by service/team to optimize usage and manage costs

• Identifies performance bottlenecks and reliability issues

5. Security & Compliance Enforcement

• Detects sensitive data in traffic to prevent unauthorized disclosures

• Delivers full audit trails for internal and external connections

• Enables zero-trust policies for service-to-service communication

6. Zero-Impact Deployment

• Lightweight eBPF agent on Linux (no kernel modifications, minimal overhead)

• No architectural changes, no proxy re-routing, no code instrumentation required

• Seamless integration with existing monitoring and security tools

Why This Matters

This process-level visibility fundamentally transforms how organizations understand and manage their service dependencies:

• Development Teams: See exactly how your services interact with other teams' services and external APIs

• Platform Teams: Map and understand the true connection landscape across your entire organization

• Security Teams: Track which applications are communicating with what, both internally and externally

• Operations Teams: Attribute performance issues and costs to specific services and processes

• Compliance Teams: Trace sensitive data flows to their source across all service boundaries

Qpoint's Unique Position

Qpoint serves as a vital complement to existing infrastructure by adding a critical layer of process-aware visibility that was previously unattainable. By operating at the connection source, we occupy a unique position where we can:

• See the actual data before encryption

• Identify the specific process making each call

• Maintain full service context across all boundaries

• Provide this without requiring certificate management or application modifications

Not Just Another Security or Monitoring Tool

Qpoint isn't:

• A replacement for your perimeter firewall

• A traditional network monitoring solution

• An APM tool focused solely on application performance

• A service mesh requiring extensive architecture changes

Instead, Qpoint provides surgical visibility at the source of your traffic, enabling teams to understand all service interactions with unprecedented clarity and context - whether those connections cross team boundaries within your organization or extend to external third-party services.

Technical Differentiators

• No-Code Integration: Eliminates the need to instrument or modify applications

• Process Awareness: Goes beyond IP-level monitoring to attribute every service call to its originating process

• Pre-Encryption Access: Maintains full TLS security while enabling deep packet visibility

• Boundary-Crossing Visibility: Tracks connections across all organizational and external boundaries

• Low Overhead: Kernel-level eBPF technology ensures minimal performance impact