We performed a comparison between HAProxy and Kong Mesh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Isito, HAProxy, Kong and others in Service Mesh."It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are session control which automatically disconnects users that forget to log off, and the ability to write rules to either allow or block certain file requests."
"I estimate that this product has saved our company hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in possible downtime from previous load balancers. We make a lot of our money from online sales, so it is critical to have 99.9% uptime."
"The solution is user-friendly and efficient."
"HAProxy potentially has a good return on investment"
"We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"It is a scalable product."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model. It could be cheaper."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"Pricing, monitoring, and reports can be improved."
"HAProxy is very weak in the logging and monitoring part and requires improvement."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"The initial setup is complicated. Although Kuma has its own CLI, CTL, and they say to use their CLI, if I have to build a generic solution, my personal preference would be to use Helm or another similar solution other than Kuma. If you have your own library CLI, it becomes hard for others to adopt it. For example, if I have to write some automation, infrastructure automation, I can't just use Kuma. I have to change my code to use Kuma's CTL, which is unfair because it doesn't make sense. It doesn't fit with my current automation structure. I have to do something extra, something additional, which I really don't like."
HAProxy is ranked 2nd in Service Mesh with 41 reviews while Kong Mesh is ranked 3rd in Service Mesh with 1 review. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while Kong Mesh is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Mesh writes "Provides a unique advantage by offering a global view for all workloads and clusters within the mesh but lack of a robust community for open-source support". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Kong Mesh is most compared with Istio, Envoy, HashiCorp Consul and Traefik Enterprise.
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