---
title: "HAProxy 3.4.4 Documentation"
linkTitle: HAProxy
weight: 50
description: "Complete English Markdown edition of the HAProxy 3.4 Starter, Configuration, and Management manuals"
icon: fa-solid fa-network-wired
type: docs
outputs: [HTML, RSS, print, markdown, LLMSFULL]
sidebar_root_for: self
sidebar_root_link_self: true
no_list: true
module: [HAPROXY]
categories: [Reference]
aliases: [/haproxy/]
upstream_source: haproxy
upstream_link: "https://docs.haproxy.org/3.4/intro.html"
cascade:
  upstream_source: haproxy
  type: docs
  module: [HAPROXY]
---

<!-- Generated by scripts/generate-haproxy-docs.py from pinned upstream text. -->

**HAProxy** is a free, fast, and reliable reverse proxy for high availability, TCP and HTTP load
balancing, and application traffic management. This component contains the complete English text of
the three core HAProxy 3.4 manuals, reorganized as one flat Markdown reading sequence for OINK.

## Choose a manual {#choose-a-manual}

- [Starter Guide](/docs/haproxy/load-balancing/) — 9 topics on load-balancing concepts, HAProxy architecture, features, sizing, releases, and ecosystem.
- [Configuration Manual](/docs/haproxy/http-fundamentals/) — 12 chapters covering proxies, ACLs, samples, logging, filters, and every option family.
- [Management Guide](/docs/haproxy/prerequisites/) — 13 chapters on startup, reloads, resources, logging, statistics, runtime CLI, debugging, and security.
{.cards}

## Edition coverage {#edition-coverage}

| Manual | Upstream source | Local organization |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Starter Guide | 1,695 lines | 9 flat topic pages |
| Configuration Manual | 33,148 lines | 12 flat chapter pages |
| Management Guide | 5,285 lines | 13 flat chapter pages |

All 34 reading pages live directly under the HAProxy component root. Three non-linking divider
placeholders separate the manuals in the sidebar without adding directory levels or pager stops.

The complete pinned inputs and SHA-256 checksums are retained under `sources/haproxy/`. The
[upstream license notice](/third_party/haproxy/LICENSE) and [GPLv2 text](/third_party/haproxy/GPL-2.0)
are published beside the manuals. A reviewed Simplified Chinese companion edition is available for
every page.