We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Wallarm NG WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The initial setup is easy."
"Load balancing generally brings high availability and a bigger ability to scale out. In some cases, it brings security, depending on how it is configured."
"Its user interface is very easy to use on a day-to-day basis. It is very user-friendly."
"It is an easy way to build application policies (graphical)."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) provides a simple low balance and SSL decryption, in addition to some TCP parameters, for incoming and outgoing traffic to redirect appropriate traffic patterns to appropriate servers."
"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."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"There are some aspects of F5 BIG-IP that could be improved, the main one being virtual machine support. We have seen that even with the virtual editions, there are some things that we would like to do that are currently not possible with virtual machines."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"I used GitHub for autoscaling CloudFormation, and I found two bugs and I submitted them. Their implementation in GitHub could be cleaner and allow for a bit more customization."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"A more intuitive interface would be helpful."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 32nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. 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 Wallarm NG WAF writes "Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare.
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