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Users consistently praise HAProxy for its high performance and reliability, making it an essential tool for load balancing and traffic management. Many appreciate its flexibility in handling various workloads, which enhances operational efficiency. However, some users note that the configuration can be complex, particularly for advanced setups.

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SC
Platform engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Load balancing features"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

We use it sticky sessions and header manipulation and works very well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Configs are complicated need to go through lot of documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Have you checked out haproxy.com/documentation - Config Tutorials? Those provide some examples for the features you mentioned.

Pooja P.
PP
Technology Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Leader"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Open source, easy to deploy, simple workflows, best security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing - its so easy - and cost effective! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Great to hear! Thank you for reviewing HAProxy.

Praful Z.
PZ
Solutions Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to install and manage"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Load balancer and reverse proxy and filter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

None. Mostly dashboard. If it provides me more insight on the number of requests, that would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

HAProxy Fusion (enterprise product) gives more metrics. But there's also Prometheus in HAProxy.

Christian M.
CM
Lead Cloud Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Gamers Reverse Proxy"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Pretty easy to integrate and lightweight in resource consumption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

over the years it became a feature monster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Too many features? Adds complexity?

Anselmo A.
AA
Software Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"We use as RCP proxy"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Stability, the resources consumption. It's awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Maybe, the syntax language. I don't know. I like so much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for leaving a review of HAProxy.

NN
Enterprise cloud architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Product built with purpose"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Ability to route the traffic based in rules which serves the business purose Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Based on what have used nothing at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thanks for reviewing HAProxy!

Dr. Dastgeer S.
DS
Associate Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best load balance"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Load balance part is the most effective way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Monitor part is complex and needs more user friendly aspects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Are there specific things we could do to improve monitoring?

JH
Platform engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It works better than most out of the box"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

The fact that it does ingress and egress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing comes to mind it's really easy to configure nothing to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

How could we do better? What would earn 5 stars?

RP
Technlead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very good"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Api proxy integreation tool for data power Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing specific want to wxplore more how it will integreate with aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Nathan P.
NP
Staff DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good"
What do you like best about HAProxy?

Super easy to use and set up and works out the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing much it works deemlessly for our use case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

Great to hear!

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