benchmarks

Benchmarks

Zen is designed to have minimal impact on your application's performance. We run benchmarks on every commit to ensure this remains true.

Running Benchmarks

make benchmark

This finds all packages containing benchmarks and runs them.

What We Measure

Middleware Overhead

We benchmark the middleware for each supported framework to measure the overhead added to HTTP request handling:

• BenchmarkMiddleware (gin) - instrumentation/sources/gin-gonic/gin
• BenchmarkMiddleware (echo) - instrumentation/sources/labstack/echo.v4
• BenchmarkMiddleware (chi) - instrumentation/sources/go-chi/chi

SQL Injection Detection

• BenchmarkDetectSQLInjection - vulnerabilities/sqlinjection

Measures the performance of SQL injection detection across various input patterns.

Body Parsing

• BenchmarkSmallBody (1KB) - internal/http
• BenchmarkLargeBody (5MB) - internal/http

Measures JSON body parsing performance for different payload sizes.

CI

Benchmarks run automatically on every push to main and on pull requests. Results are displayed in the GitHub Actions job summary.