NGINX Plus Room for Improvement

Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

NGINX cannot be a replacement for your traditional load balancer with what we use in the network today. However, with applications going toward microservices, NGINX is definitely a way forward. F5 has many traditional load balancing features, so they still need to bring some of those features to NGINX. 

NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5. I think F5 is trying to implement those features in NGINX so they can improve the balancing on NGINX, but I think that will take some time.

With the traditional F5 set up, the same OS can do load balancing, firewalls, and even policy enforcement. If we are able to bring some of those capabilities to NGINX, I think it would become a versatile solution and usage would definitely increase.

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Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution must improve its performance. Sometimes, it could be because of how a customer has implemented the tool, but it is a potential bottleneck. The product must provide a holistic view of flows to help us understand the endpoints a particular transaction went through.

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RICARDO FILIPO - PeerSpot reviewer
Wordpress Expert at Codeable

The user interface could be improved. NGINX is also too poor with streaming. We could have a better solution for streaming besides NGINX.

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Saurav Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India

I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present.

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AH
Team leader at Dana energy

The scalability could be improved.

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EL
Owner at Els

Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users.

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Nguyen Kien - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

NGINX needs to improve its factory hardware. Some start-ups keep changing their technology over time to improve control over traffic and function. NGINX needs to improve its performance.

It would be good if NGINX provided a graphical user interface. We currently need to work on configuration files. It is difficult for fresher engineers to work on the solution.

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MB
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One thing I would love to see is a feature similar to what Elastic offers. When Elastic receives data from any server endpoint, it allows you to either save it into an index or print it on the terminal. While debugging and testing the load balancer, it would be helpful to have the option to print data on the screen. This way, we can verify that the load balancer is receiving the correct data and displaying it on the screen. 

If this feature exists in NGINX, it would be great to have a flag or switch that enables displaying data on the terminal for verification of network traffic.

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Vijay Muddu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

In terms of improvement, I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks. This would allow users to easily create and manage policies, rules, load balancers, and traffic shaping without relying solely on the command line interface. 

Additionally, another area for improvement in NGINX Plus is its integration with NGINX App Protect. Currently, to utilize NGINX Protect, you need to have NGINX Plus, which might not be necessary for everyone. It would be beneficial to have the option to use NGINX Protect independently without requiring NGINX Plus.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

The KPI on NGINX Plus should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system. That is something currently lacking in the solution. I would also like to see a very interactive dashboard with all the KPI metrics that would help with application level troubleshooting. Finally, most people implementing this solution do not include a security model and it would be great if they could include that in the product. 

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YS
Technological architect - IT infrastructure at a government with 10,001+ employees

I can’t speak to where the solution needs improvement. I’m just a user and I haven’t really gone in-depth in terms of looking for where the solution might have weak points.

It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain.

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FS
Support Operation at dafnek it solutions

The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement. The price of the solution is also an area that needs improvement.

In the future, I would like to see the solution to have better capabilities in terms of basic checks and reporting.

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KO
Network Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are still learning. I can't tell you.

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Nikolay Dimitrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Paysafe / IBM

The center management system was not very good, maybe their new NGINX manager product is better. I'd like to see a good web management interface in the next release. 

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MahesaPutra - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales at Efficient IT Systems Ltd

There is room for improvement in the pricing model. 

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RI
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy. 

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DW
CTO at a tech vendor

We used the standard tried-and-tested features of NGINX. Everything is done through the CLI over a secure connection and there have not been any issues or additions to our wish list.

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FA
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing. They are always creating improvements and working towards new features.

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AS
Startup Founder at a tech services company

I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it.

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DD
Director of Architecture at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I would say ModSecurity 3.0 for NGINX Core, but they just released that. 

The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a Plug and Play module. 

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FP
Devops Specialist And Infrastructure Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Instance service health check on the NGINX load balancer feature could be improved.

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DK
Head Of Technology at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Their license fee has gone up, so that is one concern that we have. We are looking for alternative solutions which compare well and fit into our budget.

We are interested in an open-source version with the same set of features. We had to do a lot of custom coding around open source NGINX, which we were able to do.

Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced. If they reduced the price by 50%, then I would definitely like to continue with them.

The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source.

Regarding cluster-management, I should be able to provide configuration directly rather than bringing down the software and then updating it and taking it back down again.

Without going offline, if we can manage load balancing as a cluster — meaning I have to bring them down, update them, and then take it back. If that could be more dynamic, that would answer all of my requirements.

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DG
Linux System Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. 

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JG
Linux System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules.

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it_user860769 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Team Leader at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface.

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it_user718461 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a tech services company

Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA.

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