2018-10-08T17:34:00Z

What needs improvement with NGINX App Protect?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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MariosChristodoulou - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2024-01-19T11:01:00Z
Jan 19, 2024

NGINX App Protect could provide a better user interface.

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Real User
Top 20
2024-01-16T10:08:45Z
Jan 16, 2024

The product's user interface is an area with shortcomings as it can be quite confusing for users, making it an area where improvements are required. The main menu can be quite confusing. After you implement it, it's not so easy to understand how it works. Though in my company, we understand the basics of the product, if you want to explore the more advanced features, then the principal product doesn't explain it to us, which can be quite confusing when navigating through the main menu.

Md. Al Imran Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-13T16:18:00Z
Dec 13, 2023

During the NGINX App Protect v1.1 upgrade, we encountered compatibility issues with our existing telecom infrastructure, specifically the load balancer and WAF. These issues manifested as difficulties with the HTTP 1.1 protocol. While attempting to solve the problem through upgrades, we ultimately opted for alternative solutions as the desired effect could not be achieved. This highlights the technical challenges of integrating NGINX App Protect with diverse network components.

CM
Real User
Top 20
2023-06-07T10:04:00Z
Jun 7, 2023

The solution's technical support could be better.

VijayLalwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20Leaderboard
2022-09-05T08:50:16Z
Sep 5, 2022

NGINX App Protect would be improved with integration with Shape and F5 WAF, which would make it easy for users to manage all their web application security with a single solution. In the next release, I'd like to see some enhancements in bot protection, API security, and mobile application security.

SR
Real User
Top 20Leaderboard
2022-07-06T13:30:24Z
Jul 6, 2022

The price of NGINX App Protect could improve.

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RS
Real User
2022-03-16T12:36:17Z
Mar 16, 2022

The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve.

OD
Real User
2022-02-16T17:43:00Z
Feb 16, 2022

Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks.

AA
Real User
2022-01-12T15:27:00Z
Jan 12, 2022

The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections.

MS
Real User
2021-11-07T10:14:00Z
Nov 7, 2021

The solution is working on OpenShift, but we have the feeling the product was designed not only for OpenShift or a container-based solution to operate. In addition, they have a messy license model; it's not really made for microservice architecture. It's getting expensive really, really fast. NGINX made some promises for a roadmap which they weren't able to deliver. One was about virus scanning, and the other was WebSocket inspection. I think they will provide both features in the future, but the communication was really bad. Then there was a problem in production during config reload. If you want to deploy a new API, it takes around 20 seconds. For one API it's not a lot, but if you have 300 APIs, it takes a lot of time. It's not made for deployment in a self-service model. Most important to see in a new release would be the WebSocket inspection and virus scan.

LM
Consultant
2020-11-19T07:24:43Z
Nov 19, 2020

The solution does well when there's low throughput but when we go for any high throughput, it's always a challenge. I'm expecting the next version to have a better high throughput. I also find that the bug fix rate is pretty slow. I would like to see some more tools and to have some more automation capabilities in the next release, because right now the exposure of the API in NGINX is pretty limited. So I would like to see more of that as well as robustness in the scaling of the solution.

VL
Real User
2020-02-13T07:51:01Z
Feb 13, 2020

This firewall should support more of the network layers. Profiling capability should be improved. Setting policies and parameters through the UI should be more automated because the process is manual, where we can only edit one rule at a time.

AI
Real User
2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020

The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary. This solution would benefit from having a support portal that can be opened directly from the dashboard.

SB
Real User
2018-10-08T17:34:00Z
Oct 8, 2018

The contributions I think sometimes take a toll on you like you're going to spend a lot of time on the right contributions. So as a product it is good, but from the development standpoint but if you think about somebody who's not from development background, this won't work. It's not up to speed if you really realize. So the set up process, it's good from a development standpoint. The development was easy to set up because they know that their understanding of the machine that they are going to set it up and take care of everything else.

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