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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German, English, French

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/31/2021

"I have been using HAProxy since several year"

4/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

HAProxy is quite simple to configure and easy to use as light weight app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

The HAproxy monitoring UI is not that much good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Thank you for your review. Please check out our HAProxy Fusion Control Plane that provides a great observability and configuration GUI on top of HAProxy.

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/5/2021

"DevOps like most use HAProxy"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

Configuration is very easy, light wieghted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

HAproxy configuration should be possible using UI as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jakub Suchy of HAProxy

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Hi, thank you for your review! Please check out our HAProxy Fusion Control Plane - a UI to configure HAProxy.

CA

Verified User in Automotive

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2020

"We used HAProxy as load balancer for one of our production setup"

3/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

It was highly scalable and met our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

No UDP support, hence we faced challenges with device traffic load balancing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Dylan Murphy of HAProxy

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Thanks for reviewing HAProxy. HAProxy 2.3 brought support for UDP syslog in 2020 and the team plans to support additional UDP protocols on a per-protocol basis, with DNS being next. The HAProxy ALOHA appliance currently provides generic UDP support using LVS.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/10/2019

"Best Gateway for Network/Web Applications"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HAProxy?

various Load-Balancing algorithms and terminating traffic at L7 and L4 both.

Very fast and pluggable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HAProxy?

bit complex configuration and json logging

upgrade from 1.5 to 1.8 makes ground breaking changes 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. I find these tutorials really helpful for configuration: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-tutorials/