G2

Verified User in Security and Investigations

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/11/2025

"Solid WAF solution that gives us full control"

5/5

What do you like best about SafeLine WAF?

We’ve been using SafeLine for a few months now on several production applications. What we really like is the self-hosted nature — it gives us full control over traffic filtering and logging without sending data to a third-party service. Deployment was pretty straightforward (we’re using it with Docker), and the documentation was good enough to get us up and running quickly.

In terms of protection, it handles common web attacks well, especially SQL injection and XSS. The custom rule feature is very useful — we’ve added a few business-specific filters without much hassle. Performance-wise, it hasn’t introduced noticeable latency.

The development team is frequently maintaining the project. Their support is also very fast and incredibly awesome.

Overall, it’s a great fit if you want a reliable, customizable WAF you can fully control. Would recommend it to teams that have some technical background and want an alternative to cloud-based WAFs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SafeLine WAF?

Documentation is not very complete and helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SafeLine WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

SafeLine helps us block common web attacks like SQL injection, XSS, and bot abuse without relying on cloud-based WAFs. For our team, data privacy and self-hosting are critical, and SafeLine lets us deploy protection on our own infrastructure without sending logs or traffic to third-party services.

It’s also flexible — we can define custom rules tailored to our app’s behavior, which is something we couldn’t easily do with most cloud WAFs. The built-in dashboards make it easier to see what’s being blocked and why, which really helps with troubleshooting and tuning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.