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Kong

Kong | 2.1.3

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Muhammad S.

Kong manages and organizes my activities and operations.

  • July 21, 2020
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong is a company that self-manages the progress and possibilities of the result for other companies, has a well-consolidated and justified API design, has tools for the protection of multiple threats and malicious viruses for our company, we have a communications panel, Prudent access control and formidable information traffic control.
What do you dislike about the product?
We do not have system samples for long periods of time to test the software, nor less free versions that do not make your strategy system accessible to the client, it is considered that more information would be missing from the software and, therefore, would generate more confidence, and finally it has a slow interface but despite this well formulated and understandable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The design of our company is mainly for large companies, we work with implementations in the cloud, saas and web, which makes it easy for us to create, implement and manage large amounts of APIs in a single self-management platform for the Progress of our clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Is one of the best companies with client self-management software, sophisticated and even connects all its microservices with more efficient api platforms for greater ease of use, the little information it contains is almost impossible, as it contains several interesting points . of the company are not visible until consulting the company.

    kalindi p.

Highly flexible & de-facto gateway solution for enterprise-grade micro-services

  • July 14, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The plugins really improve the overall reusability of a lot of logic of the API gateway
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong plugins are lua based. I'd be much more happier if I was able to code those in as lightweight JS lambda functions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A lot of microservices are being orchestrated seamlessly and securely via Kong and the fact that it is an opensource project makes it much more attractive option!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
While adding in custom plugins, make sure you do not integrate anything specific to a single or small subset of services. Try to make generic reusable plugins that can be integrated easily with other services.

    John Y.

Mashape's Kong API cloud support is great.

  • January 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I love the versatility of Kong. It pretty much will run on any platform and the price point from my understanding isn't that much as well. Great for all types of businesses.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is good for small APIs but the moment I tried to connect to a big one, it immediately started blocking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It manages multiple APIs at a very efficient way. I like the userface.

    Food & Beverages

Simple an easy

  • January 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface with tools to help manage all inventory.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some errors and kinks need to be worked out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking is easy but can be tricky

    Verified User in Information Technology and Services

API Gateway for Lua Developers

  • November 21, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong is wonderful if you enjoy Lua with Openresty and look to have an sll-in-one solution for API implementation and management. Lua is not as popular as it should be, but Openresty has proven performance and a strong community. For developers using either (likely both) technology, Kong is exciting and fun to implement.

Documentation is also spectacular. Many of the tools within their ecosystem is open source, and usage is free for smaller use cases. They are one of the biggest sponsors of Openresty, so the developer community is pretty active as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong is great for implementation of API's, a more manual implementation using serverless is usually the path most devs go for. Kong's use case is a bit too specific to bring over most modern microservice devs to the table. This really limits Kong to just large enterprise contracts which likely do not have as large of a consumer base due to the usage of Lua.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I found Kong looking for active products implementing Openresty. I assume 90% of kong's customers also do the same.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
serverless will be easier to hire developers for if you are looking for long-term implementations.

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    Arnab K.

A tool for the future

  • November 16, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It’s very easily and readily accessible and can access it
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface still can be quite daunting for a novice user
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I’m solving data visualization tools

    Harmohan P.

Best API Management Solution

  • June 11, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
API management, with REST interface. Plugin oriented architecture means it is easily extensible. Huge support from open source community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Have not encountered any problems yet with offering. If anything Kong is updated at very fast pace and that requires constantly trying to keep up with new release, If Kong Nodes are properly setup on docker containers behind Load Balancer like F5 then it becomes easy task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management. Logging, Analytics, Monitoring and Alerts. Supports several Authentication protocols. Plugin architecture means easily extensible and several options for any tasks for example for logging, you can use loggly/Galileo/Httpd(Elastic search)/Statsd(Graphite-Grafana)/Syslog etc. Huge support from open source community.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Absolutely the best solution out there. Tried several other offerings like Tyk, WSO, IBM, SAP API Management, API umbrella, AWS, Fusio, Apigee, ApiAxle etc before picking Kong

    Nazar H.

Kong - API Gateway

  • March 26, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
1. Plugin based Architecture help to extend faster
2. Build on top of Nginx prove it to be satble in production
3. Lua Scripting Language make it easy to understand write code for Kong
4. Quick support community on Slack
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Lack of a Official UI or Administration Panel
2. Lack of built-in analytics at small scale
3. Lack of policies structure to be applied to multiple consumers
4. Non Cassandra DB support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to publish our REST APIs to our partners and later utilize same APIs to be consumed for our mobile products. So we need to implant an API gateway which helps us to stream line our APIs development to deployment process.

With kong we can avoid writing lot of similar code on each API, like rate limiting and logging.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Must consider evaluating its available UIs or admin interfaces before going live. Since in live environment, you can't actually go to your notes and look for curl commands.

    Computer Software

It looks like it can be useful, but not necessarily for my use case.

  • March 10, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The documentation is well-organized. Getting things running in Docker as a test was very easy. It has many potentially useful features.
What do you dislike about the product?
I understand Mashape had Cassandra running already, but it's a ridiculous requirement for a configuration store.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We switched to Nginx.

    Michael P.

Simple and Powerful

  • March 05, 2016
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
First of all it is easy to setup and start playing with. It is super important for microservices to have full control and it is easily deployable.
What do you dislike about the product?
actually there is nothing that i can not already implement with kong, i just wish it was easier to implement plugins based on more popular languages like python, ruby or even javascript.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i can easily add an extra layer of permissions and even more on top of my API

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