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Kong

Kong | 2.1.3

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

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    Consulting

KONG Integration

  • June 02, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
From my point of view, it was quite ease to implement and integrate it in our project
What do you dislike about the product?
Optimize the documentation because it's quite frustrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration api gateway in our kubernetes clusters

    Yeamin R.

Cloud Agnostic API Gateway

  • June 02, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's a cloud agnostic API Gateway. For a multi-cloud enviornment i.e. where API endpoints can be hosted in multiple cloud providers like AWS or Azure, Kong can be used without dependency on a specific cloud provider..
What do you dislike about the product?
The Admin GUI cannot be used in the YAML config format, it's only possible if the PostGres DB is used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong solved our Authentication problem. We used JWT token plugin of kong for autetication purpose of 3rd party API clients.

    Gavin S.

Using Kong Gateway at a Bank

  • June 02, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Upsides:

Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides:

Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I feel that in the context of my work, Kong API solves and improves the below key areas

API Management: Simplifying the management of APIs, making it easier to control access, monitor usage, and ensure security compliance.

Security Enhancement: Providing robust security features like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, which are crucial for safeguarding sensitive banking data and transactions.

Scalability: Enabling seamless scaling of API infrastructure to handle increasing loads and accommodate growth in customer interactions and transactions.

Interoperability: Facilitating integration between various banking systems and applications, ensuring smooth communication and interoperability across the bank's ecosystem.

Performance Optimization: Improving the performance of APIs by caching responses, reducing latency, and optimizing traffic routing, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for both customers and internal users.

    Banking

Great for proxy apis

  • June 02, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its great option to use kong when the requirement is to integrate apis which is just pass through which act as a proxy api.
What do you dislike about the product?
Orchestraction capability is quite difficult to integrate apis
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its ui based integration which acts as a proxy in which no orchestarion is required and its very fastest way to develop such apis

    ANISH P.

Overall okay satisfied

  • June 01, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and manage.
Api can be setup easily
Fast Api in case of any pass through
What do you dislike about the product?
Should have more features like transformation as in integration field only having gateway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing us a gateway easy to use and manage help of integrate pass through APIs

    gopi.poorna c.

I have worked with Kong for building API Gateways, LB.

  • June 01, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, easy to maintain API's. I have used KONG Gateway for Springboot application, it's easy to make api's for my application. Integration of APIs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything much ti dislike in Kong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes my life easy by handling all the API's with a single endpoint Gateway.

    DEVANSHU S.

Best Tool for Starting Out

  • June 01, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
As a computer science student and an upcoming intern, my experience with Kong API Gateway has been quite enlightening. Navigating the complexities of modern application development, particularly in the world of APIs and microservices, Kong has proven to be a robust tool that helps between theoretical knowledge and practical application.
The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong offers a free open-source version, some advanced features are only available in the paid versions. This is a limitaction for me as I cant utilise them. Also I have somtimes noticed that CPU usage also spikes abnormally when utilising Kong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have utilised to solve routing requests quite efficiently using Kong. Furthermore it gives a decent service in term of monitoring and logging which earlier had to be configured explicitly for my application.

    Vivek D.

Kong API Gateway Survey - Vivek Doddaguni

  • May 31, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
ease of use; Number of features and customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues while running the api's
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can solve the bank's Fraud Detection Platform where most of the deveopment is using web API

    Sahil C.

extensive customization, enabling it to fit diverse use cases

  • May 31, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong is built on NGINX, ensuring high performance and low latency. It supports clustering, making it easy to scale horizontally.
Moreover documentation is really amazing
What do you dislike about the product?
While the open-source version is robust, some advanced features and enterprise-level support come at a significant cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Best use with micro services

    Aakash S.

Kong- the undisputed King of API Gateway

  • May 31, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its very light weighted, simple to integrate with various upstram application. The best feature is the out of the box plugins, i love them
What do you dislike about the product?
May be the lengthy process of writing customised plugin. This could be handled in a more simple way, like other gateway platforms
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to write on top of the legacy applications, securing your internal apis, route level validation

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