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NGINX Plus

Score8.4 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

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What is NGINX Plus?

NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

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NGINX Plus Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features NGINX Plus has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Security management

    Integrated security management for applications

    Category average: 8.3

  • Application server performance

    Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics

    Category average: 8.3

  • Open-source standards compliance

    Support for open-source standards like J2EE

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • IDE support

    Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs

    Category average: 7.3

  • Installation

    Ease of download and installation

    Category average: 8.5

  • Administration and management

    Ease of management via administration console

    Category average: 7.6

Who Buys & Uses NGINX Plus

NGINX Plus Reviews

What users are saying about NGINX Plus.
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NGINX Plus for our Tier 1 applications

Incentivized
Vinnie ChhabraView profile
IT Engineer in Information Technology at Medallia (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Tier 1 applications are all behind NGINX Plus - this includes Jira, Confluence, ADmanager, etc. It's been a great tool for access, speed and security wise. We first used Nginx and moved to NGINX Plus 3 years ago in order to get Support as well as the built in modules or advanced load balancing.

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Secure access to our applications with allow lists
  • Fast changes

Cons

  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available

Return on Investment

  • All positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications secure
  • All positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications available with HA/load balancing
  • All Positives - keeping our Tier 1 applications accessible super fast

Usability

Alternatives Considered

HAProxy Enterprise and NetScaler

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, GitHub, GitHub Copilot

The Truth of NGINX Lacks of UI otherwise is great

Incentivized
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst in Information Technology at Synapxe (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently we are doing assessment on NGINX Plus for our centralise APIGW it acts as a single entry point for applications or system, making it easier to manage traffic, enforce policies, and improve scalability and reliability of backend service.

Pros

  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic

Cons

  • There is no User interface

Return on Investment

  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apigee Edge

Great product

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NGINX Plus is our primary load balancing solution. We leverage automation through GitHub to manage the platforms.

Pros

  • Seamless integration
  • Ease of use
  • Scalable

Cons

  • Monitoring through a centralized platform, I believe this is a new offering but it should've been part of the original offering

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to reduce our physical footprint in our data centers by going VM and leveraging NGINX Plus for our load balancing solution

Usability

NGINX Plus is best suited when too many applications require maximum uptime.

Incentivized
Nishant Shah
Senior Analyst IS in Engineering at Analog Devices (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Using NGINX Plus for applications load balance, application performances. Most use cases are HTTP/s load balancing and TCP load balancing. We are satisfied with the product as of now. We are expanding our use cases with Nginx Plus by using NGINX Plus as a CDN. That is one of the main reason I am on this App World event. I found an event helpful and get familiar with F5 other product. Thanks!

Pros

  • Load balancing
  • Caching
  • App security
  • Boost App performance

Cons

  • Add as a CDN product
  • Enhance active monitoring dashboard

Return on Investment

  • More uptime for business critical applications
  • Less overhead for administrator to maintain the applications

Alternatives Considered

Riverbed AppResponse

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Product Discovery, JFrog Artifactory, Jama Connect

NGINX Plus For Livestreaming

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using NGINX Plus as a livestreaming distribution model with publisher, worker and load balancer nodes.

We needed to deliver video content to all users in our organization.

Pros

  • Publishing
  • Ingest
  • Load-balancing

Cons

  • The Instance Manager setup is not that simple and would love to have it simplified (all required modules in that one single rpm file)
  • that adaptive bitrate is automatically configured
  • that easier telemetry and analytics can be done

Return on Investment

  • We were able to deliver seminars and townhalls to all users in the organization
  • We were able to do livestreaming across our multiple office sites
  • Our staff were able to enjoy streaming all the way to their desk

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