# Meshery Reviews
**Vendor:** Layer5  
**Category:** [Service Mesh Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/service-mesh-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Meshery
Meshery is the multi-service mesh management plane offering lifecycle, configuration, and performance management of service meshes and their workloads.




## Meshery Reviews
  ### 1. No matter what service mesh you're using, you need Meshery.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Marcus B. | Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Meshery?**

I am impressed by the continuous optimization that Maeshery offers of service mesh configuration to ensure that we're gleaning as much value as possible out of our service mesh deployment.

**What do you dislike about Meshery?**

There are so many service meshes, and so little time to understand them all.

**What problems is Meshery solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We've been using MeshMap to gain an understanding of how our infrastructure and workloads are configured and deployed. The visual designer included as MeshMap is next level.


## Meshery Discussions
  - [What is Meshery used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-meshery-used-for)

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## Meshery Features
**Functionality**
- Supported Protocols
- Container Orchestration
- Extensibility
- Monitoring

**Cloud Visibility**
- Data Discovery
- Cloud Registry
- Cloud Gap Analytics

**Networking**
- Networking
- Load Balancing
- Traffic Filtering
- Service Discovery

**Security**
- Data Security
- Data loss Prevention
- Security Auditing

**Protection**
- Policy Management
- Secure Communications

**Identity**
- SSO
- Governance
- User Analytics

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