Istio

by Banzai Cloud

Reviews

4.2

Star rating

Rank in Service Mesh Tools

Pros and cons

Pros

Cons

Traffic & LLM citations

Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Istio.

Page views and citations · Istio

Source: G2 review data

Losing to

Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Istio.

HAProxy

3 switched

AWS App Mesh

1 switched

Key stats

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Enterprise

Adoption by company size

Segment	Share of reviews
Small Business	27.8%
Mid-Market	16.7%
Enterprise	55.6%

Quarterly history

Quarter	Reviews	Star rating
2026 Q1	1	4.0

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use8.1

Ease of Setup7.1

Quality of Support7.9

Meets Requirements9.1

What reviewers say

Open source micro-service service discovery for Enterprise ready

4.0

“Istio with Kubernetes sidecar will make the micro-service service discovery go to the next level. It comes with the following logging tools pre-configured with, 1. Prometheus 2. Jaegar 3. Kiali 4. Grafana It supports advance newtwork traffing control, 1. dns routing wi”

Senior Engineer

Rafayel's G2 review on Istio product

4.5

“Managing microservices Traffic Forwarding Service Discovery”

Research Assistant (Machine /Deep Learning and Data Science)

best service mesh in the market today

5.0

“I like traffic managment, rate limiting via envot proxy ,fault injection,cicuit breaking,request routing etc.”

Lead Cloud and AI Consultant