HashiCorp Consul Reviews & Product Details

Hasicorp does everything right in terms of SaaS products, and consul is also on the same path. This is one of the best, if not the best service discovery tool out there. The main benefit of consul is that, it can be used in polyglot architecture as well which is not bound to any specific language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although consul is best for polyglot architecture, but it's SDK for java is a little hard to understand, also auto discovery is not as good as Eureka. UI could have been a little better for consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I admire that Consul is relatively easy to operate. It is compliant with cloud-native standards which helps to integrate it. The best is that it can be seamlessly used with other Hashicorp stacks like Nomad and Vault. The essential documentation and tutorials are for all Hashicorp products sufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I miss the documentation for fine-tuning and guidelines with troubleshooting scenarios. The REST API's of the consul are sometimes a bit inconsistent. I would like to see more docs/blogs regarding operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Just from the start i noticed it is a small in size, but massive in capabilities application. Simple deployment allows to save tons of time, ease management saves daily costs of configuration and management. When it comes to upgrades or updates - It is always just a few steps which are clearly written in upgrade paths. Practical, detailed and useful knowledge base with simple examples pointing right to the problem resolution. New features are just mind-blowing and straightforward, allows to solve more and more daily problems Additionally i am happy to notice plenty of users around the world who are sharing their experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing to mention in particular. Major changes might seem very harsh before upgrade, but in the end it is just few additional steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its cluster system way how it worked and worked evenly if one main node turned off Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some time documentation on the website are not sufficient when cluster goes offf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the use of gossip protocol in a data center and watches and handlers feature in consul. Also I appreciate the UI to be so extensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not yet a wide community that uses consul. So the support remains in a small circle. Moreover I would like to have more integration of consul with CICD tools like jenkins, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consul helps us in defining the infra with HA and fault tolerance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

third party integrations should be readily available to databases and other open source cloud native tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity of implementing service health and mesh across an entire organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially we had some challenges getting the documentation we needed to train employees to use consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consul Integration with other Tools, Services and Solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security Features, not really dislike but having a hard time to figure out when enabling with integrations but its awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consul helps us in creating a highly available infrastructure based on top of premptible VM's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of third party integrations with popular open source tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consul helps in service discovery and sets us free to operate on other aspects of automation. Automatic DNS is very notable experience IMO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consul has a vibrant community support however I would like many third party applications so that we can integrate our favorite tools with Consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.