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HashiCorp Vault - Data Center Security Software

HashiCorp Vault Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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HashiCorp Vault Reviews & Ratings

4.3

Very Good

Based on 104 ratings & 30 reviews

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Expert's Review generated by AI

HashiCorp's Vault is highly regarded by users as a game-changer in secret management, offering a rich set of features for securing credentials and secrets. Users appreciate its simple installation process, robust plugin architecture, and integration with various cloud services. The product's dynamic passwords for databases, versioned KV storage, and centralized ...Read more

HashiCorp Vault pros and cons

  • Rich set of options for access control and authorizations, enhancing security measures.

  • Provides centralized secrets storage for the whole organization, enabling easy integration with various platforms.

  • Lightweight and easily installable, with high availability and simple Web UI.

  • Offers different methods of authentication and good integration with multiple authentication providers.

  • Steep learning curve for beginners, requiring time to fully grasp the tool's capabilities.

  • Documentation may lack completeness and up-to-date examples, affecting user learning and integration with day-to-day workflows.

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Sajal S

02/27/19

4.5 out of 5

Hashicrop vault

What do you like best? This simplicity. Whether it's the HTTP API you use to write/read secrets, their amazing CLI toolEase of installation and use. The process was a simple download and works with brew install. What do you dislike? I would like to have a more portable light-weight solution for using on nodes.Manually unseal when all the vault servers are sealedDifficult to setup to work with a production/staging environment out of the box. What problems are you solving with the ...

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Rae L

02/27/19

2 out of 5

Decent

What do you like best? It was helping in creating a site where people could access thing very easily and work together What do you dislike? It was little hard to get used to at first What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It helped us have better security and grow as a company

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User in Computer Software

02/27/19

3.5 out of 5

More secure than AWS KMS but also more complex

What do you like best? Secure. Plenty of available clients for it. Works well in a non-monolithic architecture. What do you dislike? Fairly complex when compared to something like AWS KMS. Requires a bit of setup. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Storing secrets and credentials in a secure manner for distributed architecture.

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User in Computer Software

02/25/19

3.5 out of 5

Very safe to use

What do you like best? It keeps our sensitive date and credentials out of our repositories What do you dislike? It's not the cheapest option in the market Recommendations to others considering the product: Git it a try! I'm sure it won't let you down What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I want to keep our sensitive data and credentials out of repositories. HashiCorp Vault helps to accomplish that by keeping these sensitive data in a ...

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User in Medical Devices

02/21/19

3.5 out of 5

Vault - highly secure tool to store and retrieve sensitive data (secrets/passwords)

What do you like best? - Highly reliable authentication mechanism - It offers a seamless access to store & retrieve sensitive data - The APIs to read & write secrets in vault are quite useful What do you dislike? - Deploying this tool could be difficult for a newbie - Functionality of Randomize token / password generation should also be provided What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Vault, the name itself is self explanatory, a ...

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User in Information Services

02/20/19

3.5 out of 5

Hashicorp Vault for secret management

What do you like best? Features like encryption/decryption, sealing, auditing etc What do you dislike? Manually unseal when all the vault servers are sealed What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Secret Management System

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User in Information Technology and Services

10/07/18

4 out of 5

I've started work with the Vault Key Management System and found that this is the best solution.

What do you like best? Vault is perhaps the most commonly heard name in secret storage for infrastructure these days. I like: 1)Multi-factor authentication 2)BYOK 3)various secrets type support 4)resilience as design What do you dislike? I compared Vault Key Management System with Torus. And yes, we can use Vault Key Management or Torus for connectors authentication tokens. But it leads us to create reliable and resilience the Key Management System. It was approved and ...

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Administrator in Computer Software

02/16/18

5 out of 5

Difficult to setup for production the first time, but incredibly useful

What do you like best? Makes storing sensitive data for applications a breeze when setup properly. Multiple storage backends and authentication modules is incredibly valuable. What do you dislike? Difficult to setup to work with a production/staging environment out of the box. Documentation does not support versioning, so new updates immediately impact the documentation. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? - insurance compliance - ...

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Executive Sponsor in Computer Software

11/28/17

4.5 out of 5

Hashicorp's Vault solution is solid

What do you like best? Ease of installation and use. The process was a simple download and works with brew install. What do you dislike? I would like to have a more portable light-weight solution for using on nodes. Recommendations to others considering the product: Start using right away. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Secure storage of secrets for the product platform.

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Toby A

11/12/16

4.5 out of 5

Brilliant secret management

What do you like best? This simplicity. Whether it's the HTTP API you use to write/read secrets, their amazing CLI tool, or one of the many packages for many programming languages - the simplicity is immense. What do you dislike? Vault tokens are rather manual - However this is a lot better than other authentication I've seen. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Distributed secret management