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PROS

Isovalent provides control over communications restrictions in microservices, aligning with the requirements for security benchmarking and auditing.
There has been a reduction in incidents, demonstrating improved cybersecurity and efficiency.
Transitioning the CNI from Flannel to Cilium resulted in approximately 20% better performance with Isovalent, confirmed by Prometheus monitoring data.
Isovalent increases efficiency by aiding support teams in reducing the time spent on troubleshooting network-related issues.
Isovalent significantly impacts organizations positively by standardizing networking across environments, reducing time spent maintaining various systems.

CONS

Isovalent can be improved by adding more labs.
Costing is perceived to be on the higher side.
Documentation could be better, specifically regarding best practices.
Development is needed for load balancing and possibly a more efficient DNS system.
There were Hubble problems related to high internal traffic causing hangs and restarts.
 

Isovalent Pros review quotes

Clayton Daigle - PeerSpot reviewer
SE at Cisco
Jul 8, 2026
In reducing overall latency to the numbers I mentioned before, this has increased usability without spending more money, so a return on investment is instantaneous.
reviewer2873673 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Platform Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2026
Learning about Isovalent changed the way I approach cloud security in my day-to-day work.
reviewer2813076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
May 29, 2026
Isovalent is a quite good company, and I love their products.
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RN
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 13, 2026
Isovalent has positively impacted my organization because my clients really appreciate this solution.
reviewer2875644 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jul 21, 2026
Isovalent being that standardized networking tool across all my environments has positively impacted my organization because I no longer need to spend too much time balancing effort maintaining different systems.
GK
senior cloud architect at Nordcloud
Jul 8, 2026
Isovalent has positively impacted my organization by increasing efficiency, helping my support teams be more efficient by decreasing time consumption related to troubleshooting for network-related issues.
reviewer2871237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dns Associate Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jul 14, 2026
Isovalent has impacted my organization positively as we are currently moving to Kubernetes and trying to add Cilium to manage networking.
 

Isovalent Cons review quotes

Clayton Daigle - PeerSpot reviewer
SE at Cisco
Jul 8, 2026
I think they need to continue developing their load balancing and possibly even a more efficient DNS system.
reviewer2873673 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Platform Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2026
I have not seen a return on investment from my experience with Isovalent, so I do not have any comments on that.
reviewer2813076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
May 29, 2026
Sometimes I feel the costing is a bit high, on the higher side.
Learn what your peers think about Isovalent. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: August 2026.
911,493 professionals have used our research since 2012.
RN
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 13, 2026
Additionally, the interface is very important to me because the user does not have the ability to see how Isovalent is working.
reviewer2875644 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Jul 21, 2026
The only feedback I have about Isovalent is probably to lean on more documentation from the resource perspective, which is amazing.
GK
senior cloud architect at Nordcloud
Jul 8, 2026
I experienced some Hubble problems which were related to the huge internal traffic, which was somehow causing Hubble to hang and required a restart of Hubble.
reviewer2871237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dns Associate Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jul 14, 2026
I think Isovalent can be improved by adding more labs.

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