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Kong Gateway Enterprise

Kong | 3.5

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

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    Timurlan R.

service

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It helped us to ship feature-rich APIs faster
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't find any downside to the Kong API Gateway
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables us to design APIs faster, more efficiently, and more securely.


    Mohammed Ilyas A.

Load balancing features, helping distribute incoming API requests.

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong's rich plugin ecosystem is often highlighted as a major strength. It offers a wide range of plugins for authentication, rate limiting, logging, security, transformations, and more. This flexibility allows you to customize and extend the functionality of your API gateway according to your specific needs.

Scalability: Kong is designed to be highly scalable, making it suitable for handling a large volume of API traffic. Its architecture supports horizontal scaling, enabling you to distribute the load across multiple instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited GUI Interface: Kong primarily relies on a RESTful API for configuration. While there are community-contributed UIs, the official graphical user interface (GUI) may not be as feature-rich.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps API rate limiting


    Diego R.

Empowering API Management with Kong

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway excels in its user-friendly interface, making API management a seamless process. Its extensive features, from traffic control to security measures, are highly advantageous.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong API Gateway is robust, there are occasional complexities in the implementation process, demanding a steeper learning curve. Moreover, the support documentation could be more comprehensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway resolves a multitude of API management issues by offering a centralized platform for comprehensive control and security over our APIs. This centralized control enables efficient traffic management, security enhancements, and facilitates easy monitoring. The benefits are multifold:

Efficiency in Management: Kong has simplified our API management processes, offering a unified and user-friendly interface. This has streamlined our tasks, saving time and resources.

Enhanced Security Measures: The robust security features provided by Kong have significantly bolstered our API security, ensuring data integrity and shielding against potential threats.

Scalability and Performance: The Gateway's capabilities in traffic control and load balancing have significantly improved our API performance, ensuring scalability during high-demand periods.

Insightful Monitoring: Kong's monitoring tools offer valuable insights into API usage, helping us make informed decisions for optimization and improvements.

In summary, Kong API Gateway's solution has notably optimized our API management, ensuring a more secure, efficient, and scalable infrastructure, ultimately benefiting our operational efficiency and data security.


    Melanie C.

An unbeatable combination of security, scalability, and flexibility

  • October 18, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I am thoroughly impresse­d with the commitment to security de­monstrated by Kong API Gateway. Additionally, its ability to scale on-de­mand and the wide range of plugins it offe­rs, along with their ease of inte­gration, have greatly optimized our API manage­ment tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Troubleshooting issues with the Kong API can be quite difficult, but offering more descriptive error messages will greatly enhance the process and deliver substantial advantages for users of this software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Kong API Gateway has effectively solved our problems with API security, handling high traffic, and customization. Its wide range of features allows us to consistently deliver seamless API experiences.


    Muthukumar S.

Performance and extensibility

  • June 11, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is very extensible for any customization to extend the capabilities. Many built-in plugins are helpful for many use cases without research. It is a tool any admin can handle quickly and is very much self explanatory.
What do you dislike about the product?
Actionable insights / API insights / API inventory and reporting capabilities as today governance and security being paramount, any built-in options will help to make more capable..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a one-stop solution for businesses to expose an API to consumers and ensure performance on every aspect of traffic management.


    Utilities

A simple and yet powerful API Gateway solution

  • June 04, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is very simple to use. Plenty of quality documentation and community forums online are available to help me learn. The product is constantly evolving and improving. The Kong team has been accommodating and they truly want their customers to succeed.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike about Kong. Occasionally we found features we needed that were not available at first. We raised feature requests which made to the backlog. Many of these requests were fulfilled in the upcoming releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway allows APIs used across the organisation to be managed through a single platform. This platform promotes consistency and increases our security posture immensely.
The platform also provides a single catalogue of our APIs within the organisation.


    Computer Software

Truely Cloud Native & Platform Agnostic

  • May 31, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight, flexible & latform agnostic
What do you dislike about the product?
Doesn't support the Drupal developer portal
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced API security and less complex


    Financial Services

Best gateway in the market

  • May 25, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight with low cost on infrastructure to run.
Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin
Support multi-cloud deployment and integration
Easy to customize the developer portal
What do you dislike about the product?
Product Roadmap - time to delivery can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gateway service for all our microservice-based architecture. Runs on container and also support ingress controller requirement.


    Abhishek G.

Kong API Gateway

  • May 23, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The great aspect approximately Kong API Gateway which I like is its robust and characteristic-rich nature. It presents a centralized platform for handling APIs and microservices. Apart from it Kong API gives diverse protection features to protect your APIs and make sure the security and integrity of your API surroundings.
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I dislike about Kong API Gateway is predicated on external services, consisting of databases, caching systems, and load balancers. If any of those dependencies revel in troubles or downtime, it may impact the availability and functionality of the gateway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most Important issue that Kong API gateway fixing for me is that it have a big network that you could use to grow. It's open supply making itself a huge network. Scaling plays a primary position as we want to it while visitors is excessive or when the community is congested Kong is the solution for this use it, if we're facing trouble with scalling.


    MRIDUL N.

Fast and easy

  • May 23, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about this gateway is that it is fast and has high throughput. I like the mutual TLS authentication feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
I once faced the broken admin API dependency issue in the 3. x version, while the 2. x version worked fine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it as an open-source API gateway for managing my microservices. I also used it for verifying JWT.