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Best API Management platform
What do you like best about the product?
WSO2 API Manager is the product I have used for the POC for a telecom company. I am a big fan of open source and tried this product for API Management requirements for one of my clients. The setup was quick and easy, with only java requirements on the machine. The web portals publisher, dev portal, and admin console have a rich web UI in react JS with easy navigation to the features available. The product documentation is good, with a quick search option on the website. Use cases based tutorials are beneficial to map the requirement with proposed deployment patterns, sequence usage and applying the rate-limiting policies. I have implemented an all-in-one two-node cluster VM-based deployment. I liked the hot deployable feature for debugging via log4j2.properties, and wire logging helped get the end-to-end traceability of the request/response.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was an analytics requirement to get insights into the APIs usage; however, starting with version 4, the same is available in the cloud-based platform Choreo. We have checked the on-premise option, but the same is available with ELK with a custom setup and requires effort to set up and manage the infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had some legacy and some services to be developed using java/spring-boot. WSO2 API Manager helped expose both kinds of services as REST and with no-code changes on legacy services via XML-JSON transformation.API governance for certain services was critical, and token-based API access helped manage the same. WSO2 APIM also helped in API Analytics for business decision-making towards monetising specific APIs.
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The advantage and adaptable API Manager
What do you like best about the product?
The product is very flexible, configurable, adaptable and scalable. You can adapt it using one of the deployment patterns disponibility by WSO2.
You can implement WSO2 APIM using paradigms like ci/cd or DevOps.
The final user interface is updated and proposes a very friendly UX
You can implement WSO2 APIM using paradigms like ci/cd or DevOps.
The final user interface is updated and proposes a very friendly UX
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes config the product is not an easy task.
It could be useful if we could export APIs using the client tool from one version to another (2.6.0 to 3.2.0 for example)
It could be useful if we could export APIs using the client tool from one version to another (2.6.0 to 3.2.0 for example)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Put an abstraction layer in front endpoints and establish throttling policies to avoid overload the backend.
Implement RBAC access to the backend,
implementing security using the SAML protocol
Implement RBAC access to the backend,
implementing security using the SAML protocol
Feature rich API Management solution
What do you like best about the product?
Since the very first day of onboarding with the WSO2 product, we`ve worked closely with their support team. They helped us with the different challenges / issues we were facing and despite the fact we have an important time zone offset, they are very prompt to respond to any request we have. The WSO2 API Manager is now used in production for multiple projects we we are still expanding with many more incoming projects in the roadmap
What do you dislike about the product?
Containerized deployment documentations not upto the mark. It is distributed across multiple sections. And i feel like few corner cases are not fully documented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides platform where we can expose our apis to partners in quick time and also in controlled way at the same time. It also helps in montioring api usage. It is very easy to plugin wso2 product to AI cyber tools for detecting cyber attacks.
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What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity, UI and UX are the best characteristics in the API manager. It is simple and easy to get started. Discord group is very helpful for support. Highly recommend to other.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some parts are difficult to figure out on own. Documentation can be done better. Documentation is not easily understandable and difficult to follow. Video tutorials will be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WSO2 is used for API management and setting rate limits to the API call are benefitting us. Also monitoring using choreo connect and insights and analytics are also helpful.
API Manager is quite useful and user-friendly solution
What do you like best about the product?
It takes a very short time to create an API and publish it. And it ensures API security as well. The documentation was quite helpful when trying out the features API Manager provides.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any features I dislike. As I was a beginner, I thought it would be challenging, but thanks to a good documentation guide, I could learn it faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WSO2 API manager addresses the API management complexities and gives a good solution for managing APIs with much security.
Highly scalable and agile API management solution
What do you like best about the product?
Very comprehensive cost-efficient API manager product with a lot of agility and scalability. Being free and open source was a great fit for us as a startup back in 2014. We could set up the on-premise solution by referring to the documentation and running since then without any major issues.
It works perfectly with identity management solutions and we used it to easily manage multiple APIs and applications. The JWT token-based claim resolving at the APIs was beneficial in managing user status in our restful API suite.
Also, the product stability /scalability is at a satisfactory level. The API publisher and store portal are very user-friendly and intuitive to manage by even a non-technical user
It works perfectly with identity management solutions and we used it to easily manage multiple APIs and applications. The JWT token-based claim resolving at the APIs was beneficial in managing user status in our restful API suite.
Also, the product stability /scalability is at a satisfactory level. The API publisher and store portal are very user-friendly and intuitive to manage by even a non-technical user
What do you dislike about the product?
Product configuration needs in-depth technical knowledge and lacks documentation in some areas.
Also, the API monitoring and observability aspects need to be significantly improved as it values a lot when building enterprise-grade applications.
Also, the API monitoring and observability aspects need to be significantly improved as it values a lot when building enterprise-grade applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Emojot is a multi-tenant SaaS application in the domain of customer-centric digital transformation domain. We had a challenge in finding highly scalable, versatile APIM solutions while being cost-efficient. WSO2 APIM was instrumental in providing solutions for all these key challenges we were facing in the API management domain.
We are securely managing multiple APIs of our enterprise-grade platform with the WSO2 API manager. We had a challenge in passing user claims to the backend services in a scalable and efficient manner and JWT claim handling became very handy and it worked nicely with the integration of the identity provider which we are using for user authentication.
Also, it makes us very efficient when exposing our APIs to clients in a secured manner.
We are securely managing multiple APIs of our enterprise-grade platform with the WSO2 API manager. We had a challenge in passing user claims to the backend services in a scalable and efficient manner and JWT claim handling became very handy and it worked nicely with the integration of the identity provider which we are using for user authentication.
Also, it makes us very efficient when exposing our APIs to clients in a secured manner.
Very much recommended since easy to work and highly reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
Customer service and expertise on the subject.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a dislike but if you can increase your 24*7 contacts, it will be perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Load Balancing of our system load and maintaining the servers.
Support API driven flexible development including rich set of security features
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible Security application to the APIs, by default security applys with Aouth2, different levels of security can be applied easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Almost every feature I expect from an API Manager product is there. So, I don't have any specific feature that I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using API manager to apply the security of the API, which is built from Spring Microservice. There, I have two kinds of API for internal system usage and external usage. It easily achieves by configuring an external gateway and an internal gateway. Without API Manager, it will take much effort to build security for the API and maintain two kinds of servers for the API calls.
We offered WSO2 API Manager to many of our customers as an end-to-end enterprise API solution.
What do you like best about the product?
WSO2 API Manager is one of the rare complete solutions that is fully open-source and provides all the basic functionalities that we require such as API security, API policy such as throttling, supporting SOAP web services and many more. The feature that I like the most is that it stands out from its competitors as an easy-to-manage product after it is installed, thanks to its very useful and easy interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
You may need expert support for product installation and troubleshooting in case of error. It is especially important that cimmunity feeds more and generates documents. In this way, a wider audience will be reached.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WSO2 API Manager connects your business with the digital world by providing security, performance and monitoring in a well-managed manner.
Open source and innovating product
What do you like best about the product?
Automation deployment upgrade. Free version to try out POCs
What do you dislike about the product?
No of issues introduced with the new versions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps to manage API stack required by the clients.
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