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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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2023

"HAProxy for mission critical services"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Reliable, performant and live configuration changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Nothing, works as documented well engineered product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Samuel L.

Administrateur système

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/6/2023

"My first experience with proxy is with this product"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I am with the ediiton community and I can tell you that support via the community is very active.

At my work we had to replace our current proxy that didn’t have the options we wanted to add unless we paid $$$$...

the migration went well and how to understand the HAproxy language made my job easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The only thing I can say with my experience is that we have to put almost everything in a single CFG file and not several CFGs to properly classify our config by URLs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luigi F.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/16/2023

"I’ve been using the HA controllers"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Its stability and performance. Its also rich a features for networking purpose outside and also inside Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

To be honest I don't find any issue. Ita very stable and easy. Docs are awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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Chris R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/16/2023

"HAProxy for reliability and scale"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I've used HAProxy in it's Community and Enterprise versions with excellent success over the prior 8 years. The reliability and configurability cannot be beaten. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

With no GUI by default, it can require some effort for a Jr level engineer to become familiar with all the beautiful things that HAProxy can provide. This should not steer you away from HAProxy as it is not a challenging hill to climb, but it is a difference you will find between HAProxy and a much more expensive appliance-based load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

HAProxy allowed us to scale our inbound L4 and L7 traffic beyond the capabilities of our incumbent load-balancing systems at a fraction of the cost. We found after the deployment that we had better stability and had an easier time generating metrics to determine how the system was doing compared to our former appliance-based load balancers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Ramirez of HAProxy

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It's wonderful to hear that you've been successful with HAProxy! Thank you for the feedback.

Michael P.

Network Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/16/2022

"Best Load Balancer Available"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy is the best you will find when it comes to load balancers. It's relatively easy and straightforward to configure once you get used to the syntax. This device can fit within just about any scenario you can think of. Being able to do all sorts of checks to backends servers to be sure our clients never see a disruption has been vital in keeping our services available 24/7/365. We were running both F5 and Haproxy in our environments. We have been so impressed with the product that we no longer utilize other devices. HAProxy is something that you can trust and depend on. If you do run into any issues, their support is the absolute best. Every company in the world that offers support should be taking a look at how HAProxy is doing it. They are setting the standards and raising the bar in more ways than one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I don't have any complaints. Would like to see a more robust dashboard but the one included with HAProxy has a ton of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HAProxy solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are several things that this product has helped us with. It keeps track of which servers are up or down, and routes traffic based on that information. It can automatically display maintenance webpages for sites that are fully down-- if that was to ever occur. You can configure all sorts of ACL's based on IP, URI, Response Codes, etc.. etc. It gives us so much control over all of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guilherme F.

Senior Devops Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2023

"HAProxy is awesome for performance but it is still hard to work with"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Performance! HAProxy is awesome when the subject is performance. Even a single server is capable of doing awesome things and dealing with a very demanding application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

It is really really hard to work with HAProxy! It is not that easy and I am always struggling on trying to fix things or even, for example, translating rules from other applications, like WebKnight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/30/2023

"Haproxy has been beneficial"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Haproxy has been easy to use and integrates with our applications well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Haven't had any issues so far with it so dar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Kent C.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/22/2023

"Great product, great support, great team"

5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

I like our support contract with HAProxy - high touch, there when we need them, and super responsive account exec! We have a dedicated slack connect channel, which is super useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

Very few downsides. If forced to pick something, it could be that the configuration files aren't inherently intuitive and require a thorough reading of the documentation. But that would be true of any technical product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carl R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/6/2023

"The potential is there but its been a slow start for our POC"

3/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Cost and fusion are why our team decided to go with HAProxy. We dislike having to do all configuration via linux cli but adding Fusion on has made it more comparable to F5 etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

I wish they offered an OVA appliance versus having to run it on top of a linux distro that they don't officially support. Would be helpful when you do not have a linux expert on your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.