HAProxy Pros

JT
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.
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Bhaskar Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at Yamaha
I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good.
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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS
It is scalable.
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HAProxy
March 2023
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Roger Seelaender - PeerSpot reviewer
UCaaS Engineering Manager at EarthLink
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.
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Tasos Papadopoulos - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Qivos
Stability is number one.
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ST
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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KS
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.
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Nathanel Sulimanov - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Architect at SES
Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind.
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AICARDO Sylvain - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engeneer at Inatum
The solution is user-friendly and efficient.
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Nasir Otis - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment
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HAProxy Cons

JT
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.
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Bhaskar Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer at Yamaha
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.
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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS
The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs.
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HAProxy
March 2023
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Roger Seelaender - PeerSpot reviewer
UCaaS Engineering Manager at EarthLink
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.
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Tasos Papadopoulos - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Qivos
The reconfigurability in terms of the tooling could be improved and maybe an editor plugin can be added.
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ST
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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KS
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.
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Nathanel Sulimanov - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Architect at SES
HAProxy could do with some good combination integrations.
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AICARDO Sylvain - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engeneer at Inatum
Documentation could be improved.
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Nasir Otis - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Cloud Architect at Koala Compute Inc.
I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit
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Buyer's Guide
HAProxy
March 2023
Learn what your peers think about HAProxy. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2023.
687,947 professionals have used our research since 2012.