We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva Bot Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"The product is quite flexible."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"An area for improvement in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is that it's a high-priced product."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"Right now, there are a lot of products within F5's portfolio. They acquired a couple of companies like NGINX and Volterra. Some features and technologies overlapped when this acquisition occurred. They need to refine it and come up with a single, proper solution. F5 should focus more on zero trust network access (ZTNA).They should be more focused on that framework because the industry is moving towards that. Everyone is talking about SASE and zero trust."
"It would be good to have better traffic and better data. It would be nice to have more granularity to see packets in terms of the header details, the analytics, etc. It would be nice if that was also part of it and to have analytics added to the traffic."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva Bot Management is ranked 4th in Bot Management with 2 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva Bot Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Bot Management writes "A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cequence Security, Akamai Bot Manager, AWS WAF, Cloudflare and A10 Networks Thunder SSLi.
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