External reviews
286 reviews
from
and
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Light, fast and simple
What do you like best about the product?
It's simple to understand e put in production, it's light, fast because nginx. nad is highly customizable with plugins
What do you dislike about the product?
Tthe OSS requires a lot of work to automate and manage efficiently
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide an API ux unique for the monoliths and other microsevices
Best API gateway tool -Load Balancing and reverse Proxy workd pretty well and configured.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong offers good traffic control capabilities, including load balancing and request routing. It enables us to efficiently distribute incoming API requests across multiple backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
Kong API gateway - gateway to success
What do you like best about the product?
Configurability, ease of use, Informative logging
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation seems to be not complete in terms of troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to manage the complete API ingress.
Simple API Gateway to do the job
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is easy to use, setup and simple API gateway which can provide proxies to your microservice architecture. It can provide extra features using plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all plugins are free plus it lack to do complex taks like which can be done by IBM API connect or Apigee
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proxy for API and helping to achieve event based architecture in the Organisation. Kong solution is easy to scale and manage.
In Depth Analysis of Modern API Management with Kong
What do you like best about the product?
With kong support, I have done changes for declarative configuration using YAML and it's integration with CI / CD pipelines which significantly reduced the manual intervention. It helped to accelerate the speed of testing and debugging. I would also like to appreciate the improved developer portal, interactive docs and finally the testing tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The plugin configuration and debugging can be better since for the new users it is but complicated. But I found the setup is strong and ux can be improved and should be more developer friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management in Kong involves comprehensive API capabilities that allows us to efficiently manage and control the access to APIs. It includes many other great features like authentication, rate limiting, request/response transformation, and traffic control. These leveraging functionalities makes the use if Kong management and monitoring of APIs at ease and also ensuring availability and performance.
Scalability of the Kong is easy to handle high volumes of API traffic when ee try again and again for certain specific use and it provides horizontal scalability features ad well. It mainly acts as a centralized entry point for the APIs, load balancing APIs is great among other. Also this capability improves the overall performance and reliability of API infrastructure.
Security Control of Kong involves robust security features to protect the APIs from unauthorized access and potential threats.
Scalability of the Kong is easy to handle high volumes of API traffic when ee try again and again for certain specific use and it provides horizontal scalability features ad well. It mainly acts as a centralized entry point for the APIs, load balancing APIs is great among other. Also this capability improves the overall performance and reliability of API infrastructure.
Security Control of Kong involves robust security features to protect the APIs from unauthorized access and potential threats.
Great ecosystem
What do you like best about the product?
Its app ecosystem enables standardization for authentication across organization applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation could be improved to flatten newcomers learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Authentication and authorization can be easily standardize thereby offloading a great deal of operational complexity.
Reviewing Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is the most user friendly API gateway I have used.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much I don't like about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us integrated our apps
Efficient API management for microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Kong Gateway provides various configuration and change management options saas platform hosted at customer infrastructure.
Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility.
Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
kong api gateway helps me in my personal projects to develop applications based out of diverse tech stack. This eases the overhead of maintain domain knowledge and thereby assists in faster iteration on software development.
Kong API Gateway is a great product to use
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple Features and Functionality in terms of API conversion and Load balancing, Reverse proxy and API gateway.
What do you dislike about the product?
IOT API Protocol conversion is NOT supported.
Example MQTT to IP
or NBACNET to IP
Example MQTT to IP
or NBACNET to IP
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
02_16_40.jpg
1. Cisco IOTOD (EI Cloud module) and EI agent Microservice observability service graph based monitoring via Cisco Calisti SMM - AMQP, MQTT et al event triggered Protocol integration support – New requirement
2. Multi cloud Event Mesh architectural paradigm with Cisco Calisti
3. Envoy WASM - MQTT Kafka Bridge integration – current limitations in Calisti discussion
1. Cisco IOTOD (EI Cloud module) and EI agent Microservice observability service graph based monitoring via Cisco Calisti SMM - AMQP, MQTT et al event triggered Protocol integration support – New requirement
2. Multi cloud Event Mesh architectural paradigm with Cisco Calisti
3. Envoy WASM - MQTT Kafka Bridge integration – current limitations in Calisti discussion
very good product
What do you like best about the product?
The UI for configuration is very easy to use and manage
What do you dislike about the product?
Very expensive and lot of learning curve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security, Observability, Access management
showing 161 - 170