HAProxy Reviews & Product Details

HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com

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Jatdilok R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"HAProxy is a opensource i am try it before buy enterprise"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It is a Lightweight and fast learning for using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I want ui config and i want try full feature before buy enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you so much for your review! HAProxy Fusion Control Plane provides a full UI and we'd be happy to provide a trial to try it out.

Mark D.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/20/2023

"Easy Setup, Great Support"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Having the support team available in the private Slack channel was highly valuable. They were there to quickly answer questions to get our instance up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It does what we need it to do. Not much to say here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review!

Verified User in Insurance

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/11/2024

"A great open source tool"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I really like how stable it is and the addition of the api make it really usable now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Sometimes it's less integrated with the tool we are used to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving a review of HAProxy. Could you suggest tools you would like it to integrate with? They may be on the roadmap.

Fábio F.

Senior Devops Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"Its pretty easy and robust to use it"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The easy way to configure it and the way it forwards the workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing. I really love to use haproxy, it is a great application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you! We are working hard to improve the documentation.

Matteo N.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/22/2024

"It's a perfect balancer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I use ad ungress controller and onprem leader bilancino and I love vero simile config and very good performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Notting dislike, its all good for me!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving feedback on HAProxy! It's great to hear that it is working well for you.

colin c.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/20/2024

"haproxy in front of kube and elk clusters"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

The fact that I can spin it up in a few minutes. Config is user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Would love more in depth UI from the open source version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review! We understand your concern about a UI in the open source version of HAProxy. If you ever decide to evaluate HAProxy Enterprise, please check out our HAProxy Fusion Control Plane, a modern UI on top of HAProxy.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/11/2024

"Haproxy is used for our websites."

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

To distribute high traffic in difficult conditions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing to note. It works fine. It's a good product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy!

Verified User in Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/20/2024

"The fastest and low resources usage load balancer"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Easily to configure.

Its extensive options cater to a variety of needs, making it suitable for diverse applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

HAProxy one require as subscription, but has many useful features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you so much for your review!

Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/19/2023

"Powerful and customizable"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I like the possibility to customise the proxy based on different scenarios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It is quite complex to start. No dashboard for configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for reviewing HAProxy. For getting stared, have you checked out our tutorials? https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/22/2024

"HAproxy- one of the great loadbalancer"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

- lightweight LB

- Highly performant

- Highly customisable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

- No native SSL termination

- No native support for session persistance or sticky sessions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Thank you for leaving a review! Based on your dislikes, it sounds like you may like to know that HAProxy does support both native SSL termination and session persistence / sticky sessions. Here are some links about those topics:

* SSL / TLS - https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/ssl-tls/

* Session persistence - https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/session-persistence/