Kong Gateway Enterprise

What do you like best about the product?

Extendibility, deployment flexibility and scalability

What do you dislike about the product?

1. Plugin limitations
2. Observability challanges

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solving api gateway, traffic management, Cross cutting problem like authentication, rate limit etc. , monitoring and tracing

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Kong Gateway is its ability to scale and manage APIs efficiently. Its plugin-based architecture allows for great flexibility and customization. Additionally, it offers easy integrations with existing systems and has an active community that facilitates the resolution of questions.

What do you dislike about the product?

The least useful aspect is that the learning curve can be somewhat steep for new users. The documentation, although extensive, could be clearer in some technical sections.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to Kong, we can now centralize traffic management, apply authentication, and rate limiting easily.

What do you like best about the product?

It has its roots in open source software
Its built on top of nginX - a world-renown reverse proxy
Its lightweight and expandable architecture - use only the modules (plugins) that you require
Its modular design is easy to understand and intuitive - learning curve is small.

What do you dislike about the product?

Out-of-the-box monitoring and observability support for which you need to buy their additional products.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We didn't have any API management platform and gateway. We started exploring options of which Kong community edition api gateway turned out to the most suitable candidate because it was light-weight, modular, fast and most importantly inherently scalable. We eventually ended up procuring the enterprise version of Kong. We primarily use Kong as a facade layer on top of our APIs that are consumed by multiple internal applications as well as by some third-party systems on a limited scale. it serves as a unified gateway for policing and monitoring all the API calls. It helps us authenticate and authorize API clients, enforce custom policies and functions via the modular plugins feature. One of the stand-out features is its intuitive interface that does not require steep learning-curve.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of Use and Ease of Implementation and competitive price

What do you dislike about the product?

Support documentation can be improved for end user.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Management

We use this solution as a way to expose our internal APIs, both internally in Kubernetes  and for private cloud of our own.

The most valuable features of Kong Gateway Enterprise  are its seamless integration with Kubernetes  and cloud, many plugins that can be incorporated in a solution, and its incorporation with low-code function systems.Kong provides the ability to relatively fast change our development and DevOps scaling from on-premise API and managed APIs to a very good and scalable solution, which provides the ability to monitor and react to the API, making it more valuable and providing more benefits for customers.

More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating with .NET solutions. I mostly missed local resellers or partners that we could use within our enterprise, because it was difficult for some tech personnel to work with remote tech support.

I am just a customer of Kong Gateway Enterprise  from my former work.

The stability would be rated about eight, as it is mostly stable.

The scalability of this solution would be rated about eight or nine, and it would benefit if there was a little less latency.

The technical support from Kong Gateway Enterprise would be rated about eight, as we missed local technical support.

Positive

Before using Kong Gateway Enterprise, I used Azure  API management.We switched from Azure  to Kong Gateway Enterprise because we needed a solution to make API management on-premise and on cloud, and we did not want to work with Azure Arc, so we tried to find a solution that is possible to work with on both platforms, such as hybrid platforms.

The initial setup of this solution was pretty straightforward, as we started to work with Docker , Docker  containers, and Kong Gateway Enterprise as a managed platform with Kong Connect; we quickly realized how to work with it and how to deploy it and work with GitOps.

Our deployment was done in-house, as it is a private enterprise and closed.

I did not work with the AI capabilities of this solution, so I cannot measure it.Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people.I would rate the whole solution about nine.

Hybrid Cloud

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