ZAP Jenkins plugin Active scans have been taking extremely long.

[Joshua Osei]

Hi Team,

I have set up a Jenkins job using the Official OWASP ZAP Plugin and have configured it to run on our corporate web applications.

The scans however have been taking extremely long and I am having a difficult time trying to understand what is causing this. most recent scan has been running for 4 days on 26% and 2 hours and the previous scan on another application took 3 days and 17hrs.

I have analysed the zap.log files which aren't showing me anything helpful. 

I have also read the blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/07/10/how-to-speed-up-owasp-zap-scans/ but this post isn't very helpful in terms of the jenkins plugin.

How do I identifty the potential issues in the blog post if i am running the application in headless mode?

Could anyone please help me try and identify what could be causing this slow down. 

Zap is running in a windows environment and zap is quiet RAM intensive. Could it be a matter of the system requiring more ram?

All help would be greatly appreciated thank you