# Haproxy spoa bouncer latency

**URL:** <https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/haproxy-spoa-bouncer-latency/2799>\
**Category:** crowdsec\
**Created:** [April 13, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/haproxy-spoa-bouncer-latency/2799 "2026-04-13T15:06:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![jschaeff](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/jschaeff/32/1404_2.png) [@jschaeff](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/jschaeff)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/haproxy-spoa-bouncer-latency/2799/1 "2026-04-13T15:06:46Z")

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Hello,

I’m setting up the haproxy bouncer and it works great.

We noticed that it adds a 500ms latency for all requests, and I could not find how to minimize it.

First question : is such a latency expected ? If not what would be the expected time ?

Second: how can I reduce it ? Where to look for ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![iiAmLoz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/iiamloz/32/386_2.png) [@iiAmLoz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/iiAmLoz)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/haproxy-spoa-bouncer-latency/2799/2 "2026-04-14T15:33:36Z")

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> [@jschaeff](#):
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> We noticed that it adds a 500ms latency for all requests, and I could not find how to minimize it.

typically this means your hitting the timeout of the spoe processing rather than it actually working.

You might have to debug but [another user had the issue](https://github.com/crowdsecurity/cs-haproxy-spoa-bouncer/issues/153) but it was their scaffolding via ansible that was causing a permission problem.

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**Author:** ![jschaeff](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/jschaeff/32/1404_2.png) [@jschaeff](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/jschaeff)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/haproxy-spoa-bouncer-latency/2799/3 "2026-04-16T10:44:05Z")

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Thank you for pointing this out.

Indeed, the crowdes-spoa-bouncer service was not started.

```auto
systemctl enable --now crowdsec-spoa-bouncer.service 

```

I now barely see any difference in the response time !