Pixie Labs

aid: pixie-labs
name: Pixie Labs
description: Pixie Labs built Pixie, an open-source, Kubernetes-native application observability and debugging platform that
  uses dynamic eBPF probes to auto-instrument workloads and capture metrics, events, full-body traces, and logs in seconds
  without code changes. Data is collected and queried in-cluster via PxL scripts, avoiding costly telemetry export. Pixie
  Labs was acquired by New Relic in December 2020; the project was contributed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
  as a sandbox project and is developed in the open at px.dev under the pixie-io GitHub organization. Pixie exposes a gRPC
  API (Pixie Cloud for cluster discovery/management and Pixie Vizier for PxL script execution) with first-party Go and Python
  client libraries and the px CLI.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixie-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status-note: pixielabs.ai no longer resolves; Pixie Labs was acquired by New Relic (2020) and the product lives on as the
  open-source CNCF project Pixie at px.dev (GitHub org pixie-io).
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixie-io/pixie/main/.readme_assets/pixie_banner.png
tags:
- Company
- Ai
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- eBPF
- Monitoring
- Tracing
- Open Source
- CNCF
- gRPC
- Developer Tools
apis:
- name: Pixie API
  description: 'Pixie''s gRPC API for programmatically running PxL scripts against live Kubernetes clusters and managing Pixie
    Cloud resources. Two services: Pixie Cloud (cluster discovery, API/deploy keys, artifacts, plugins) and Pixie Vizier (ExecuteScript
    streaming query execution, health checks). First-party Go (px.dev/pxapi) and Python (pxapi) client libraries wrap the
    gRPC transport and handle API-key auth and result table streaming.'
  humanURL: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
  baseURL: https://work.withpixie.ai
  tags:
  - Observability
  - gRPC
  - Kubernetes
  - eBPF
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    name: Pixie Vizier API proto
    url: grpc/pixie-labs-vizierapi.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: Pixie Cloud API proto
    url: grpc/pixie-labs-cloudapi.proto
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://px.dev
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.px.dev
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.px.dev
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.px.dev/reference/api/overview/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.px.dev/using-pixie/api-quick-start/
- type: Support
  url: https://px.dev/community/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.px.dev
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pixie-io
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pixie-labs-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/pixie-labs-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/pixie-labs-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pixie-labs-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/pixie-labs-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/pixie-labs-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pixie-labs-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pixie-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/pixie-labs-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pixie-labs-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml