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Isovalent pros and cons

Vendor: Isovalent
4.6 out of 5

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PROS

Isovalent reduces incidents, showing improved organizational outcomes.
Isovalent enhances product trust, especially with tools like Cilium.
Setup is efficient, completing tasks in one to two hours instead of days.
Switching from Flannel to Cilium improves performance by approximately 20%.
Increases efficiency by reducing time consumption in network-related troubleshooting.

CONS

Costing is sometimes considered high.
Documentation, although good, could improve, particularly regarding best practices.
Development of load balancing needs continuation.
A more efficient DNS system could be beneficial.
Hubble experiences issues relating to internal traffic causing it to hang.
 

Isovalent Pros review quotes

reviewer2868063 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 4, 2026
After we changed the CNI from Flannel to Cilium, even in the dev environment, we got better performance, approximately 20% better, and because we used Prometheus monitoring, we had accurate data about our performance improvements.
Clayton Daigle - PeerSpot reviewer
SE at Cisco
Jul 8, 2026
In reducing overall latency to the numbers I mentioned before, this has increased usability without spending more money, so a return on investment is instantaneous.
reviewer2813076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
May 29, 2026
Isovalent is a quite good company, and I love their products.
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RN
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 13, 2026
Isovalent has positively impacted my organization because my clients really appreciate this solution.
GK
senior cloud architect at Nordcloud
Jul 8, 2026
Isovalent has positively impacted my organization by increasing efficiency, helping my support teams be more efficient by decreasing time consumption related to troubleshooting for network-related issues.
reviewer2871237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dns Associate Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jul 14, 2026
Isovalent has impacted my organization positively as we are currently moving to Kubernetes and trying to add Cilium to manage networking.
 

Isovalent Cons review quotes

reviewer2868063 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 4, 2026
Regarding features, I can speak about the docs, which were very good regarding deep networking and the internal workings of Cilium, but sometimes I think they could be better, specifically for best practices.
Clayton Daigle - PeerSpot reviewer
SE at Cisco
Jul 8, 2026
I think they need to continue developing their load balancing and possibly even a more efficient DNS system.
reviewer2813076 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
May 29, 2026
Sometimes I feel the costing is a bit high, on the higher side.
Learn what your peers think about Isovalent. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2026.
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RN
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 13, 2026
Additionally, the interface is very important to me because the user does not have the ability to see how Isovalent is working.
GK
senior cloud architect at Nordcloud
Jul 8, 2026
I experienced some Hubble problems which were related to the huge internal traffic, which was somehow causing Hubble to hang and required a restart of Hubble.
reviewer2871237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dns Associate Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jul 14, 2026
I think Isovalent can be improved by adding more labs.

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