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Security & Operations Benchmark

Published 2026-02-11Updated 2026-06-302 min read

Measure the performance overhead and efficiency of security policies, monitoring, and GitOps tools.

Security Policy Overheadโ€‹

Network Policy Performance Impactโ€‹

Testing Planned

This benchmark is currently being prepared.

Metrics

  • Latency changes when Network Policy is applied
  • Performance scaling with number of policy rules
  • Cilium vs Calico policy engine comparison

Monitoring Resource Usageโ€‹

Monitoring Agent Overheadโ€‹

Metrics

  • Prometheus memory/CPU usage
  • Node monitoring agent resource usage
  • Impact by metric collection interval

GitOps Synchronizationโ€‹

Flux CD / ArgoCD Performanceโ€‹

Metrics

  • Git synchronization latency
  • Large manifest processing speed
  • Concurrent deployment throughput