I really like that the GUI for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is user-friendly, and its features are more advanced compared to other products. The health monitors, iRules, SSL offloading, and detailed traffic monitoring provide me with better control over application traffic. F5 also offers more advanced traffic management and better load balancing than alternatives like Citrix. The initial setup was very easy thanks to assistance from OEM and the vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the real-time local traffic logs unreliable. Currently, TCPDump is the only reliable source for inspecting traffic, but unfortunately, it does not provide real-time logs. Having real-time logs directly in the LTM interface would make troubleshooting easier and help identify traffic issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On the F5 BIG-IP LTM module, the way it handles SSL/TLS certificate profiles is hard to beat. Managing custom root CA certificates under ca-bundle.crt through the TMOS command line feels robust and straightforward. It also scales well in high traffic environments and gives me granular control over SSL offloading that standard web servers simply can't match.

Beyond basic offloading, a lot of the value comes from combining it with advanced LTM features. With iRules I can manipulate headers and enforce specific TLS cipher versions at the edge before traffic ever reaches the backend server (pools). Also, configuring health monitors to check application status over secure ports helps maintain seamless persistence and avoid downtime during high-concurrency events. Overall, this setup makes it much easier to integrate our servers with the LTM module.

The API documentation is easy to find and use, which is helpful when integrating F5 with our own platform for automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the F5 BIG-IP LTM module is incredibly stable, the classic web UI feels quite dated and can become noticeably sluggish when navigating extensive configuration objects, large node lists or certificate profiles. In addition, the platform has a steep learning curve, and the ASKF5 documentation portal can often feel overly complex when troubleshooting TLS handshake errors (especially with older legacy apps trying to force TLS 1.1).

From pricing and ROI perspective,the massive licensing and module casts makes it a heavy financial burden which is difficult to justify when developing instances for smaller staging environments.

Lastly regrading AI and Intelligence, the LTM module itself completely lack of out-of-the-box AI for predictive traffic analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

product understanding, features, and innovations with time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its dearer than competition. can have lesser bugs per code release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

F5 BIG IP LTM is a type of ADC (application Delivery Controller) it helps to load balanced our backend server along with different method of loadbalancing. here we can be able to configure access polciy that make our backend applicatoin sever get more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

F5 BIG-LTM while try to configure the feature, we must activate the license with activate we could not be able to view the features in F5 BIG-IP console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The GUI is very user friendly, it just takes a few hours to get used to it. Creating nodes and pools is very straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't something that I have come across which I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like about LTM is that it is very easy to configure yet very powerful and effective. You can easily create a LB function for your servers. LB function can be used for sever redundancy, scalability and security as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, There is nothing I dislike about F5 LTM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product stability, The hardware is very stable and has run for many years without any issues. The Security features are awesome to product your applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frequent Software and batch releases are difficult to handle by the operations team with the current expectation of uptime SLA with the industry. F5 needs to come up with new solutions to take care of this issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Best user interface of load balancing tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

price, and designed for huge organizations and proxy rule policies are still not easy to write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Load Balancing Traffic, VIP Creation, Pool Members Creation, SSL Termination, Persistence, Rate Shaping, and thousands of features! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as of now. Best in class when it comes for load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

F5 has a policy and iRule to modify traffic on layer 1 to layer 7. it has tcp & SSL profile to modify timeout and encrypt traffic for end to end communications.you have greate control to modify traffic passing thru F5 LTM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Network Map should improve more to display active connection statistics/logs for virtual servers. The profile should also include searching for a specific object. All these queries should show on Network Map (Web Gui) . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.