HAProxy Pros
JT
reviewer936006
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something.
View full review »I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good.
View full review »It is scalable.
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March 2023

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The features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests.
View full review »Stability is number one.
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reviewer1633455
Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature.
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Kaushlendra Singh
Manager - IT Infrastructure and Network at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source.
View full review »Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.
View full review »The solution is user-friendly and efficient.
View full review »HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment
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JT
reviewer936006
UNIX System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading.
View full review »While troubleshooting, we are having some difficulties. There are no issues when it is running; it is stable and very good; however, if there is a troubleshooting issue or an incident occurs, we will have issues because this is open-source.
View full review »The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs.
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The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs.
View full review »The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added.
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reviewer1633455
Director at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment.
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Kaushlendra Singh
Manager - IT Infrastructure and Network at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets.
View full review »HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations.
View full review »Documentation could be improved.
View full review »I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit
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March 2023

Learn what your peers think about HAProxy. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2023.
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