External reviews
286 reviews
from
and
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Securing modern enterprise application
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and provides me a lot of options to configure and secure my api
What do you dislike about the product?
Web ui could be better, yo needs more options with more options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing and limiting access to my k8s applications.
Kong API is very reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the availability and services kong offer to manage the APIs and how it can scale very quickly to handle huge traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is some learning curve involved before you get to use all the services but with a little time it feels intuitive to use all the features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping me explore and do projects on API management
plugin developper
What do you like best about the product?
well documented with examples and youtube channels.
well structured and easily to build deveopment environment from examples
deployment and integration is easy and clear
well structured and easily to build deveopment environment from examples
deployment and integration is easy and clear
What do you dislike about the product?
not many pictures/diagramme for understanding deeply the flow and architecture
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
integration for security reason
Kong: One-stop solution to manage the API world
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is a one-stop solution for managing your microservice in the container world. Right from kong mesh to seamless experience with API management reduces the API development burden to market the product quickly as never before. It saves my organization from paying bills of many IPs addresses and make it easy implement for inbound traffic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Multi-tenancy of the kong control plane (IngressClass) needs to be documented. Kong API integration with ISTIO is a bit harder
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing service-to-service communication in a Kubernetes multi-tenant environment.
Handling ingress requests and routing them to appropriate services.
It saves on exposing multiple IP addresses
Creating a kong mesh.
Handling ingress requests and routing them to appropriate services.
It saves on exposing multiple IP addresses
Creating a kong mesh.
Kong- ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of APIs
What do you like best about the product?
One of the main advantages of Kong is its flexibility and extensibility. It supports multiple protocols and can be easily customized and extended with plugins. Kong also has a powerful control plane that allows developers to manage and monitor APIs using a web-based dashboard or API.
What do you dislike about the product?
limitation with open-source...................
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased productivity: Developers can focus on building and improving APIs instead of worrying about infrastructure and security.
Improved user experience: APIs are more scalable and reliable, which ensures that users can access them quickly and easily.
Reduced costs: Kong API Gateway reduces the need for costly infrastructure and security solutions, which can save organizations money.
Faster time to market: With Kong API Gateway, developers can quickly create and deploy APIs, which helps organizations bring new products and services to market faster.
Improved user experience: APIs are more scalable and reliable, which ensures that users can access them quickly and easily.
Reduced costs: Kong API Gateway reduces the need for costly infrastructure and security solutions, which can save organizations money.
Faster time to market: With Kong API Gateway, developers can quickly create and deploy APIs, which helps organizations bring new products and services to market faster.
Swift and handy API gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The performance is great and it support wild range of platform from POSIX installation to Docker and K8S.
What do you dislike about the product?
It will be more appreciated if can streamline the plugin lifecycle and putting resource to encourage community.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the target candidate to replace our legacy APIM solution
Streamline Your API Management with Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
As a reviewer, I appreciate Kong API Gateway's flexibility and customizability the most. Users can quickly adapt and tailor the tool to match their unique demands because of its user-friendly platform and variety of plugins. Additionally, it's an excellent choice for businesses trying to simplify API management and enhance the performance and security of their microservices, thanks to its extensive security features, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and analytics tools. Overall, Kong API Gateway is a solid and adaptable technology that may assist businesses of all sizes in improving their API management.
What do you dislike about the product?
I must give a fair evaluation of Kong API Gateway as a reviewer. Even while some users have mentioned complexity and sporadic bugs, these are problems that all API gateways face and are not specific to Kong API Gateway. Kong API Gateway is still a popular option for API management despite this because of its flexibility, security features, and monitoring capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway revolutionizes API management by resolving complex performance and security issues. The Kong API Gateway streamlines API management and enhances microservices for maximum performance and dependability with a single entry point for all API traffic, specific security features, and potent monitoring and analytics capabilities. No matter how big or small your business is, Kong API Gateway offers several advantages that can help you increase the effectiveness and security of your API management procedures, lower the chance of security breaches, and ensure your microservices are as reliable and fast as possible.
Great products and services
What do you like best about the product?
Improved support for Kubernetes and cloud-native deployments.
Enhanced plugin development framework for custom integrations.
Better observability features, including metrics and logging.
Streamlined admin API and declarative configuration options.
Enhanced plugin development framework for custom integrations.
Better observability features, including metrics and logging.
Streamlined admin API and declarative configuration options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things that made me like Kong Gateway less include:
Complexity in configuration and setup compared to some alternatives.
Limited built-in support for advanced traffic management features.
Plugin ecosystem can be fragmented and sometimes lacks documentation.
Performance overhead when running many plugins.
UI and monitoring tools are less mature than some competitors.
Complexity in configuration and setup compared to some alternatives.
Limited built-in support for advanced traffic management features.
Plugin ecosystem can be fragmented and sometimes lacks documentation.
Performance overhead when running many plugins.
UI and monitoring tools are less mature than some competitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Make the API readily available in a very short time which, compared to other solutions, would take longer to finish and ultimately delay the production depliyment.
Using the Kong API Gateway made it easy for me to manage a complex system and streamline my workflow
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Kong API Gateway is how feature-rich it is. It provides a lot of functionality, so it's easy to customize and extend. And it's also very user-friendly, so it's easy to set up and get up and running
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the things I dislike about Kong API Gateway is that the documentation can be a bit confusing to interpret. It's also not always clear which features are essential for a specific use case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway is helping me to solve complex problems associated with managing multiple applications, APIs, and services. It's benefiting me by allowing me to streamline my workflow and simplify the process of managing multiple systems.
value of Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
it supports the full lifecycle management of APIs via other products like API Analytics, API Portal, Kong Mesh
What do you dislike about the product?
it's open source software.it's more knowledge to operates and handle it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
when I am doing some microservices I am not getting the proper API integration and management process
showing 171 - 180