OpenResty XRay
Jun 17, 2025
OpenResty XRay
Updated Jun 17, 2025
11 mins read
Tracing the Slowest PCRE Regular Expressions in OpenResty or Nginx Processes
- System Environment
- Narrowing Down the Culprit without Guessing
- Limiting the execution overhead of PCRE
- Non-Backtracking Regular Expression Engines
- Lua’s Builtin Patterns
- Tracing Applications inside Containers
- How The Tools are Implemented
- The Overhead of the Tools

- System Environment
- Narrowing Down the Culprit without Guessing
- Limiting the execution overhead of PCRE
- Non-Backtracking Regular Expression Engines
- Lua’s Builtin Patterns
- Tracing Applications inside Containers
- How The Tools are Implemented
- The Overhead of the Tools