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)."We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"ASM for WAF."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"I think F5's tech support may be better than Citrix's because they mainly focus on the ADC product, but Citrix support covers Hypervisor, XenMobile, FAS, and ADC. And from my experience, sometimes, we face some issues that Citrix cannot handle."
"The load balancing function, the monitors that you can create, and iRules programmability are most valuable."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"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."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"In terms of what could be improved, I would expect more integration with different platforms and more integration with the backend systems. Additionally, in the next release, I would like a more secure version."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"The user experience for dashboards and reports can be improved. They should make dashboards and the reporting system easier for users. They need to add more reports to the dashboard. Currently, for complicated reports, I have to do the customization. It should have more integration with network firewalls to be able to gather all the information required for traffic management."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"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 A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Cequence Security, DataDome Real-Time Bot Protection and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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