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OpenResty XRay Aug 24, 2022
OpenResty XRay Aug 24, 2022
One String Value Crashed Asia's Biggest Streaming Site — We Found It with OpenResty XRay

- The Platform Behind Hundreds of Millions of Streams
- When Rebooting Doesn’t Help
- Finding the Root Cause Without Touching a Single Line of Code
- One Type Mismatch, Entire System Down
OpenResty XRay Mar 24, 2026
OpenResty XRay Mar 24, 2026
Binary Evidence-Driven Vulnerability Scanning: Eliminating False Positives with OpenResty XRay

- Why Version-Matching Scans Fail: Three Compounding Costs
- How XRay Scans Binaries Directly: The Evidence-First Model
- Case Study: Detecting Dual OpenSSL Versions on Rocky Linux
- Building a Sustainable Scanning Practice on Precision Evidence
OpenResty XRay Feb 10, 2026
OpenResty XRay Feb 10, 2026
Introduction to OpenResty XRay

- Core Philosophy: A Tracing Engine Built for the Unknown
- Turning Noise into Signal: How XRay Demystifies Production Issues
- Empowering Engineering Teams in Cloud-Native Reality
- Built on a Robust, Open Technological Foundatione
- Real-World Success Stories
OpenResty XRay Dec 23, 2025
OpenResty XRay Dec 23, 2025
Anatomy of a 15x Performance Drop: A 90k to 6k QPS Root Cause Analysis with OpenResty XRay

- The 93% Performance Drop: Uncovering the Observability Blind Spot
- OpenResty XRay Uncovers Connection Reuse Issues
- Comparative Analysis Reveals Compilation Option Issues
- Impact of Compiler Options on Instruction Execution Performance
OpenResty XRay Oct 10, 2025
OpenResty XRay Oct 10, 2025
Building a Non-Invasive Java Function Profiler with OpenResty XRay

- What is Non-Intrusive Function Probing?
- What Makes OpenResty XRay’s Non-Intrusive Probes Unique?
- Hands-on Demo: Monitoring Function Parameters
- Technical Advantages and Use Cases
OpenResty XRay Feb 16, 2023
OpenResty XRay Feb 16, 2023
The Wonderland of Dynamic Tracing (Part 1 of 3)

- Dynamic Tracing
- What It Is
- Too Good to be True?
- How it Works
- Still Having Doubts?
- The Advantages of Dynamic Tracing
- DTrace
- SystemTap
- DTrace and SystemTap
- Applications of SystemTap in Production
OpenResty XRay Aug 4, 2020
OpenResty XRay Aug 4, 2020
How OpenResty and Nginx Shared Memory Zones Consume RAM

- Slabs and pages
- What is allocated is not what is paid for
- Fake Memory Leaks
- HUP reload
OpenResty XRay Jan 21, 2020
OpenResty XRay Jan 21, 2020
How OpenResty and Nginx Allocate and Manage Memory

- On The System Level
- On The Application Level
- For Traditional Nginx Servers
Latest Articles
OPENRESTY Apr 7, 2026
OPENRESTY Apr 7, 2026
Real-Time JS/CSS/HTML Minification at 120 MB/s — Right in Your Nginx/OpenResty Gateway

- When You Can’t Touch the Build Pipeline
- Why a Regex Won’t Cut It
- Three Approaches That Almost Work
- A Streaming FSM for Each Language, Compiled to Native Code
- Five-Minute Setup: A Configuration Example
- Four Things to Know Before Going Live
OpenResty Open Source Mar 26, 2026
OpenResty Open Source Mar 26, 2026
OpenResty 1.29.2.3 Released

- Version highlights
- Full Changelog
- Feedback
OpenResty XRay Mar 24, 2026
OpenResty XRay Mar 24, 2026
Binary Evidence-Driven Vulnerability Scanning: Eliminating False Positives with OpenResty XRay

- Why Version-Matching Scans Fail: Three Compounding Costs
- How XRay Scans Binaries Directly: The Evidence-First Model
- Case Study: Detecting Dual OpenSSL Versions on Rocky Linux
- Building a Sustainable Scanning Practice on Precision Evidence
OPENRESTY Mar 17, 2026
OPENRESTY Mar 17, 2026
How OpenResty XRay Solved P99 Latency Jitter in a D-lang Order Service

- Analyzing GC Traps and Business Hotspots in the Flame Graph
- Optimization Roadmap: Why Sequence Is More Important Than Action
- Conclusion: From Code Logic to Runtime Reality
OpenResty XRay Mar 13, 2026
OpenResty XRay Mar 13, 2026
OpenResty XRay Version 26.2.1. Now Available

- Key Highlights
- Stability and Usability Enhancements
Archives
2026 Apr
2026 Mar
- OpenResty 1.29.2.3 Released March 26, 2026
- Binary Evidence-Driven Vulnerability Scanning: Eliminating False Positives with OpenResty XRay March 24, 2026
- How OpenResty XRay Solved P99 Latency Jitter in a D-lang Order Service March 17, 2026
- OpenResty XRay Version 26.2.1. Now Available March 13, 2026
- End-to-End Client Real IP Passthrough in OpenResty Edge March 5, 2026
- OpenResty 1.29.2.1 Released March 3, 2026
- How OpenResty XRay Enables Full-Stack Dynamic Tracing in Production March 3, 2026
2026 Jan
- OpenResty Edge Design Notes: Bringing Global Traffic Scheduling Back to the Application Layer January 27, 2026
- Resolving the Runtime Model Mismatch Between OpenResty and Kafka January 19, 2026
- OpenResty Edge Version 25.12.5-1 Now Available January 16, 2026
- Hunting Down a Silent Memory Leak in OpenResty Without a Reboot January 13, 2026
2025 Dec
- Anatomy of a 15x Performance Drop: A 90k to 6k QPS Root Cause Analysis with OpenResty XRay December 23, 2025
- Implementing Cluster-Wide TLS Rotation Without Restarts December 19, 2025
- An Introduction to the Programmable WAF of OpenResty Edge December 15, 2025
- Deconstructing the LuaJIT Pseudo Memory Leak December 4, 2025
- Building "Less is More" Event-Driven Operations with OpenResty Edge Webhook December 3, 2025
2025 Nov
- How We Pinpointed a 244ms Latency Spike in a 500k QPS OpenResty Gateway November 18, 2025
- From Open Source OpenResty to OpenResty Edge: Evolving Your High-Performance Infrastructure November 17, 2025
- Why More and More Enterprises Are Building Private CDNs November 11, 2025
- When a "Black Box" Plugin Consumes 45% CPU: How We Pinpointed Lua Line 93 Without Source Code November 10, 2025
- How OpenResty XRay Pinpointed Java Memory Issues November 10, 2025
2025 Oct
- OpenResty XRay Version 25.10.11 Now Available October 31, 2025
- OpenResty Edge Version 25.9.17 Now Available October 31, 2025
- How to Pinpoint the Hidden Cost of Gzip Configuration with OpenResty XRay October 27, 2025
- Performance Takes a Leap Forward: OpenResty Edge Now Supports zstd Compression October 20, 2025
- How OpenResty Edge Automates SSL/TLS Certificate Management with ACME Protocol October 15, 2025
- How to use OpenResty XRay to quickly pinpoint memory leaks in C++ process October 11, 2025
- Building a Non-Invasive Java Function Profiler with OpenResty XRay October 10, 2025
2025 Sep
- How OpenResty XRay Pinpoints the Toughest Problems with Minimal Data September 24, 2025
- OpenResty XRay Reduces Usage to 40% with a Flame Graph for Financial Services September 12, 2025
- How OpenResty XRay's Node.js Function Probes Enable a New Monitoring Paradigm September 11, 2025
- Enabling Mirror Request Functionality with OpenResty Edge September 2, 2025
- Application Lagging? OpenResty XRay: Instantly Uncover the Truth Behind 75ms Blockages September 1, 2025
2025 Jul
- Double Bottleneck Concurrency? OpenResty XRay Multi-dimensional Analysis Solves Performance Challenges July 30, 2025
- Analyzing CPU Usage in Online Node.js Applications (Using OpenResty XRay) July 22, 2025
- How to Build a Private CDN with OpenResty Edge July 21, 2025
- How OpenResty XRay Thoroughly Analyzes Nginx Memory Corruption Issues July 16, 2025
- UDB + OpenResty XRay: Unlocking the Mystery of OpenResty Application Performance July 14, 2025
- How UDB and OpenResty XRay Let You See Through the Entire Perl Code Execution Process July 14, 2025
- Unveiling Python Code Execution with UDB July 11, 2025
- UDB and OpenResty XRay: How to Analyze File Operations in Java Applications July 11, 2025
- Case Study: How to Trace a Memory Leak Caused by an LRU Cache Using OpenResty XRay July 8, 2025
- Performance Breakthrough: 60% DNS Optimization Success with OpenResty XRay July 2, 2025
- The Swiss Army Knife for Dynamic Tracing, How Ylang Tames Complexity July 1, 2025
2025 Jun
2025 May
- OpenResty 1.27.1.2 Released May 30, 2025
- Deep Dive into Dynamic Tracing Technology: How OpenResty XRay Revolutionizes Problem Diagnosis May 30, 2025
- Why is Dynamic Tracing Difficult to Implement? How Does OpenResty XRay Break Through? May 26, 2025
- Traditional Methods vs. Dynamic Tracing: A Revolution in Efficiency and Control May 26, 2025
- The Next Stop for Observability: How OpenResty XRay Redefines Problem Troubleshooting May 26, 2025
- From Black Box to White Box: OpenResty XRay Makes System Issues Nowhere to Hide May 7, 2025
2025 Apr
- OpenResty XRay Empowers LLVM clang Performance Optimization Practices April 18, 2025
- Self-Optimization: The Performance Evolution of OpenResty XRay April 17, 2025
- OpenResty XRay Helps Boost Script Performance by 44 Times April 7, 2025
- Cross-Media Data Structure Drift: OpenResty XRay Enables 20x Performance Improvement April 3, 2025
- From OOM to O(1): The Implementation Path of Streaming JSON Parser April 2, 2025
- From Days to Hours: How OpenResty XRay Accelerated the Linux shred Tool by Dozens of Times April 1, 2025
2024 Oct
2024 Sep
2024 Aug
2024 Jun
2024 May
- Pinpointing the Hottest Rust Code Paths with High Disk I/O (using OpenResty XRay) May 24, 2024
- Introduction to OpenResty XRay Mobile Apps May 12, 2024
- Locate Large Memory Objects inside PHP Processes (using OpenResty XRay) May 11, 2024
- Enable Automatic Healthcheck for Gateway Servers in OpenResty Edge May 8, 2024
2024 Apr
2024 Mar
- How to Trace Exceptions inside Perl Applications (using OpenResty XRay) March 30, 2024
- Analyze OpenResty/Nginx Applications without Debug Symbols (using OpenResty XRay) March 27, 2024
- Automatic Core Dump Analysis (using OpenResty XRay) March 13, 2024
- Install OpenResty XRay’s Agents on Amazon Linux via Package Bundles March 11, 2024
- Pinpointing the Hottest Go Code Paths with High Disk I/O (using OpenResty XRay) March 10, 2024
2024 Feb
- Control Access to DNS Applications in OpenResty Edge's Admin Console February 28, 2024
- Pinpointing the hottest PHP code paths with high CPU usage (using OpenResty XRay) February 27, 2024
- How CPU Time is Spent inside Envoy Servers (using OpenResty XRay) February 27, 2024
- How to Locate Exceptions inside Go Applications (using OpenResty XRay) February 19, 2024
- Call Lua modules by Edgelang in OpenResty Edge February 6, 2024
- How CPU Time is Spent inside PHP Laravel Apps (using OpenResty XRay) February 1, 2024
2024 Jan
- Find Blocking Perl Code Paths Holding back CPU Usage (Using OpenResty XRay) January 26, 2024
- How to Locate Exceptions inside Rust Applications (using OpenResty XRay) January 19, 2024
- Pinpointing CPU-Hottest Go Code Paths Inside Prometheus (using OpenResty XRay) January 16, 2024
- OpenResty 1.25.3.1 Released January 12, 2024
- Global Search in OpenResty Edge January 7, 2024
2023 Dec
- How to Diagnose HTTP 504 Timeout Errors using OpenResty XRay December 29, 2023
- Performance Overhead of OpenResty XRay when Tracing Perl Apps December 25, 2023
- How CPU Time is Spent inside Go’s CockroachDB (using OpenResty XRay) December 25, 2023
- How to Use Gateway Staging Servers in OpenResty Edge December 21, 2023
- Locate Large Memory Objects inside Perl Processes (using OpenResty XRay) December 15, 2023
- Measuring the Performance Overhead of OpenResty XRay When Profiling Go Applications December 7, 2023
- Install OpenResty XRay’s Agents on Ubuntu via Deb Packages December 5, 2023
- Configuring Webhooks in OpenResty Edge December 4, 2023
- Performance Impact of OpenResty XRay when Tracing PHP Apps December 1, 2023
2023 Nov
- Tested in Production: The Performance Impact of OpenResty XRay When Tracing Rust Applications November 27, 2023
- Performance Impact of OpenResty XRay when Tracing Python Apps November 27, 2023
- Dynamic-Tracing Custom Go Programs with Custom Ylang Analyzers (using OpenResty XRay) November 24, 2023
- Configure Custom Error Pages in OpenResty Edge November 23, 2023
- Configure DNS Records in OpenResty Edge November 21, 2023
- Adding Custom Response Headers in OpenResty Edge November 15, 2023
- How to Use OpenResty Edge's Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Feature November 9, 2023
2023 Oct
2023 Sep
- How CPU time is spent inside Rust’s Sled library (using OpenResty XRay) September 28, 2023
- Find the largest Python objects or values taking the most RAM (using OpenResty XRay) September 28, 2023
- How CPU time is spent inside Go's etcd server (using OpenResty XRay) September 27, 2023
- How CPU time is spent inside llama.cpp + LLaMA2 (using OpenResty XRay) September 21, 2023
- Find Blocking Go Code Paths Holding back CPU Usage (Using OpenResty XRay) September 1, 2023
2023 Aug
- Pinpointing the hottest Go code paths with high CPU usage (using OpenResty XRay) August 23, 2023
- Pinpointing the blocking Python code paths (using OpenResty XRay) August 8, 2023
- Two bugs in Linux kernels' tracing subsystem (found by OpenResty XRay) August 6, 2023
- Pinpointing hottest Perl code paths (using OpenResty XRay) August 4, 2023
2023 Jul
- Pinpointing hottest Lua code paths in online OpenResty/Nginx servers (using OpenResty XRay) July 28, 2023
- OpenResty 1.21.4.2 Released July 28, 2023
- Memory and CPU usage statistics among Kong plugins online (using OpenResty XRay) July 15, 2023
- How we solved a CPU bottleneck caused by Lua exceptions in a custom Kong plugin (using OpenResty XRay) July 15, 2023
- Troubleshooting the extra 200-ms request latency online July 5, 2023
2023 Jun
- EdgeLang: A Powerful and Efficient Language for Gateway Logic June 30, 2023
- Pinpointing leaked Lua tables with OpenResty XRay's command-line tools June 27, 2023
- Real-Time Request Counting against Nginx Processes via YSQL June 23, 2023
- Using request IDs to troubleshoot problematic requests in OpenResty Edge gateways June 7, 2023
- Configuring hCaptcha’s captcha webpages in OpenResty Edge June 6, 2023
- Pushing static resources to OpenResty Edge gateways June 5, 2023
- Configuring SNI proxies in OpenResty Edge June 5, 2023
- Configuring the built-in captcha webpages in OpenResty Edge June 3, 2023
2023 May
- Configuring gateway access log files in OpenResty Edge May 30, 2023
- Load-balancing TCP applications via OpenResty Edge May 29, 2023
- Configuring error log files in OpenResty Edge May 28, 2023
- Configuring sticky cookies in OpenResty Edge gateways May 25, 2023
- How to use standard dynamic metrics in OpenResty Edge May 22, 2023
- Managing traffic to Kubernetes (K8s) upstreams in OpenResty Edge May 8, 2023
- How to deploy the on-premises version of OpenResty XRay on Microsoft's Azure cloud May 5, 2023
2023 Apr
- High-Performance Web Application Firewall (WAF) in OpenResty Edge April 25, 2023
- Configure distributed gRPC proxy in OpenResty Edge April 25, 2023
- The EdgeLang DSL in OpenResty Edge April 19, 2023
- OpenResty 1.21.4.2 RC1 is out April 17, 2023
- How to pass the real client IP addresses to backend servers via special request headers April 12, 2023
2023 Feb
- When Lua IPC Pipes Block OpenResty or Nginx's Event Loops February 18, 2023
- The Wonderland of Dynamic Tracing (Part 3 of 3) February 16, 2023
- The Wonderland of Dynamic Tracing (Part 2 of 3) February 16, 2023
- The Wonderland of Dynamic Tracing (Part 1 of 3) February 16, 2023
- Optimize Memory Fragmentation due to Huge Nginx Configuration February 14, 2023
- New FAQ Doc for OpenResty XRay February 7, 2023
2022 Jun
2021 Dec
2021 Nov
2021 Sep
- Auto-Generate Demo Videos for Google Search from Screenplay Docs (via OpenResty Showman) September 26, 2021
- Set Different Host Headers for Upstream Requests in OpenResty Edge September 16, 2021
- Official OpenResty Debian 11 package repo September 9, 2021
- Redirect to different URIs Based on Clients' Language Settings (OpenResty Edge) September 6, 2021
2021 Jun
2021 May
2021 Apr
2021 Mar
2021 Feb
2020 Dec
2020 Nov
- Install OpenResty on CentOS 8 via dnf November 30, 2020
- The resty Command-Line Utility Demo November 29, 2020
- Memory Reduced by 60%, OpenResty XRay Precisely Locates Problem Code, Quickly Completes Fixes and Deployment November 19, 2020
- Write Your Own Lua Modules for OpenResty Applications November 15, 2020
- Hello World HTTP Example in OpenResty November 14, 2020
- OpenResty 1.19.3.1 released November 5, 2020
