We performed a comparison between Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We use the HDX protocol, a high-performing component of the Citrix solutions. We also use provisioning to generate VM and NetScaler ADC solutions to propose access to applications for our customers."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"I can't speak to all of the HAProxy features because we don't use them all, but load balancing is very good."
"Having the right load balancing solution – which is what HAProxy is – and protection in place gives organizations peace of mind."
"We discussed problems with the network products with the Indian teams. The support center for network products is located in India. There are language barriers and issues with the time difference, so we sometimes face restrictions when dealing with this team."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"Documentation could be improved."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"The web stats UI, which provides the status of the health and numbers, could greatly benefit from having a RESTful interface to control the load-balanced nodes. Although there is a hack around the UI (by issuing a POST request to HAProxy with parameters), a RESTful interface would greatly improve the automation process (through Chef and Ansible)."
"We would like to see dynamic ACL and port update support. Our infrastructure relies on randomly allocated ports and this feature would allow us to update without restarting the process."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
Earn 20 points
Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is ranked 19th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 40 reviews. Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is rated 8.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management writes "It's a robust and proven solution that we've been working with for many years". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Offers good integration capabilities but needs to improve the monitoring part". Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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