My company uses Kong Enterprise for ISC, so if we need data in one place or one application, we use the solution to retrieve the data with the help of REST API.
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Kong is a great product
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API gateway has many features and is very useful. The upsides are high availability and a very reliable platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of at the moment. Everything is gravy!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It serves as our front door to our applications, keeping everything secure.
Kong API
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use, Easy to maintain and troubleshooting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support and support materials need to be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining different API url are tedious jobs..Kong is making it simple.
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What do you like best about the product?
it has many useful features and help developers save time to develop functions
What do you dislike about the product?
it is difficult to setup and manage the whole platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we planning to migrate from monolithic platform to micro services model
Efficient and low cost REST API gateway
What do you like best about the product?
I like the variety of deployment options Kong has, which are documented thoroughly and provide a lot of flexibility. It also scales very well, making it easy to support ellastic tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there is quite a lot of space to improve the developer portals. But I am impressed pretty much that it can be used in hybrid/multi-clouds and it supports load balancing pretty well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Both API design and management. It provided us a roadway to follow to design our APIs and simplified the management of our APIs.
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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.
Load balancing features, helping distribute incoming API requests.
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.
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
Empowering API Management with Kong
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.
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.
An unbeatable combination of security, scalability, and flexibility
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.
The tool offers its users with great integration capabilities and a good overall stability
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools. The integration capabilities the tool offers are smooth, and I don't see any hiccups there.
What needs improvement?
There is a tool called Apigee. Apigee has a portal where you can inspect the APIs and do a live tracing of the API, features that are missing in Kong Enterprise and Azure API Management. I am unsure if something else needs to be considered for improvement. Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays. With live tracing of the APIs, you can see how the request is going and where it gets stuck, what the actual input was, what the response is, and all that information we can see with the help of live requests, which is impossible in Kong Enterprise. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the solution. With Kong Enterprise, you can examine after the fact, but why it happens can't be examined.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience with Kong Enterprise. My company is a customer of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution has been stable so far in my company.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I can't comment on the solution's stability since my company is still in its development phase.
How are customer service and support?
For support, a group was created with the help of Microsoft Teams. My company hasn't contacted the actual support team of Kong Enterprise.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Apigee in the past. You can do the live tracing of APIs in Apigee, but it is not possible in Kong Enterprise.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's deployment was done in a couple of weeks.
Our company has not gone live with the product since we are still in the solution's development phase.
The solution's deployment model has changed from an on-premises to a cloud one.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
It was not my company but our company's service provider who gave us Kong Enterprise.
What other advice do I have?
Kong Enterprise is a good solution with a few missing features, especially the one provided by Apigee, which is the live tracing of APIs.
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
The solution provides protocol transformation and allows each client to have a specific UI experience
What is our primary use case?
We had worked for a client from the travel industry who wanted to propose an API manager. They had built microservices on Java and another integration tool. They wanted to apply policies, register their APIs in the API manager, and enforce policies and plugins, like client ID, client secret, throttling, rate limiting, and protocol transformation. The client wanted to apply these things to their APIs.
What is most valuable?
Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise.
Kong Enterprise allows a lot of customizations that provide a specific UI experience for each client.
What needs improvement?
The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kong Enterprise for the past six to eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not seen any stability issues so far with Kong Enterprise. None of our customers have reported any issues with the solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Kong Enterprise is a scalable solution.
How was the initial setup?
No setup is required for Kong Enterprise because it has a complete cloud setup. You pay for a license, get credentials, and start registering your API and applying policies. It's completely cloud-based. We also have some open-source options where you set up the API manager on your Kubernetes clusters or dockers and register your API in the on-prem Kong API manager.
What other advice do I have?
The solution requires maintenance, but I haven’t heard of any maintenance challenges so far.
A user's decision to choose Kong Enterprise or MuleSoft varies from use case to use case. Users should do a detailed technical assessment before choosing Kong Enterprise, MuleSoft API manager, or any other API manager tools available in the market.
Overall, I rate Kong Enterprise an eight out of ten.
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