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# Pixie
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Pixie is an open source observability tool for Kubernetes applications. Use Pixie to view the high-level state of your cluster (service maps, cluster resources, application traffic) and also drill-down into more detailed views (pod state, flame graphs, individual full-body application requests).
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Three features enable Pixie's magical developer experience:
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- **Auto-telemetry:** Pixie uses eBPF to automatically collect telemetry data such as full-body requests, resource and network metrics, application profiles, and more. See the full list of data sources [here](https://docs.px.dev/about-pixie/data-sources/).
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- **In-Cluster Edge Compute:** Pixie collects, stores and queries all telemetry data locally in the cluster. Pixie uses less than 5% of cluster CPU, and in most cases less than 2%.
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- **Scriptability:** [PxL](https://docs.px.dev/reference/pxl/), Pixie’s flexible Pythonic query language, can be used across Pixie’s UI, CLI, and client APIs.
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## Prerequisites
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You must have either:
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- You need to have a Pixie account and deployment key on [Community Cloud for Pixie](https://withpixie.ai).
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- Or a Pixie account and deployment key on a [self-hosted Pixie Cloud](https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/install-guides/self-hosted-pixie/).
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