Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users
HashiCorp Consul Logo

HashiCorp Consul pros and cons

Vendor: HashiCorp
3.9 out of 5

Pros & Cons summary

Buyer's Guide

Get pricing advice, tips, use cases and valuable features from real users of this product.
Get the category report

Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Automation of processes limits errors from user interaction.
Documentation is good.
Support for Service Mesh TLS.
Enables canary deployment.
Scales wonderfully for communication needs.

CONS

Command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive.
Health check outputs are sometimes delayed.
Issues related to triggering generic deployments require improvement.
Documentation could be clearer for developers.
Interaction understanding can be improved in documentation.
 

HashiCorp Consul Pros review quotes

Kerrigon Isaacs - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 24, 2022
HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction.
MR
Senior Customer Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 17, 2023
The documentation is good.
Phanindra Sangers - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Jan 24, 2024
The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment.
Find out what your peers are saying about HashiCorp, Kong, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Service Mesh. Updated: December 2025.
881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.
reviewer2784477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 3, 2025
HashiCorp Consul is scaling great; I think we are seeing exactly what we need for communication, so it is scaling wonderfully.
 

HashiCorp Consul Cons review quotes

Kerrigon Isaacs - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 24, 2022
The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use.
MR
Senior Customer Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 17, 2023
Health check outputs are delayed sometimes.
Phanindra Sangers - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Jan 24, 2024
They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform.
Find out what your peers are saying about HashiCorp, Kong, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Service Mesh. Updated: December 2025.
881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.
reviewer2784477 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 3, 2025
I think the documentation sometimes can be better; it needs to make it easier for our developers to understand how to interact with it.