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It's a great API gateway management product
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure, manage, and use. It saved our development time.
What do you dislike about the product?
No so far. Sometimes it lacks flexibility to implement all the features we need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It speeds up the development and management time of API gateway
fine product
What do you like best about the product?
good security, scalability, performance, centralized management
What do you dislike about the product?
typical modern subscription-based licensing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm only evaluating for customer infrastructure.
Easy to use and friendly interface
What do you like best about the product?
Most of API Gateway is kind of difficult to use, but this product is straight forward and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I haven't found any dislike of this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Usual API interface issue but it solved all of issues
high performance and simple to use
What do you like best about the product?
Mostly configuring the Internal services and sometime exposing it to public
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime upgrade , would cause issues with config
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routing , Proxy and authentication & Authorization
I've used Kong for Observability and troubleshooting
What do you like best about the product?
As a part of SRE, I love its built in Monitoring and Logging. Its is easy to configure as it is a declarative configuration and automation
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of enterprise features are locked behind the Paid version
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Set up ELK Stack for monitoring traffic and debugging the API traffic flows using using Admin API, logs and tracing tools
Easy to use and robust
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use , many features and excellent documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is bit higher compared to other products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management
Integration of Kong API Gateway.
What do you like best about the product?
Working good across different environment and easy to configure in other applications and more secured.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open-source version is lacks some advanced features. understanding the reason for the errors is less.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to deploy in the Cloud and protect API from unauthorized access. Also low latency and load balancing.
Powerful and Scalable API Gateway with Great Extensibility
What do you like best about the product?
Kong’s high scalability, lightweight architecture, and extensive plugin support make it an excellent choice for managing APIs efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve can be steep for beginners, and debugging custom plugins (especially in Lua) can be challenging. The enterprise version is expensive, which might not be ideal for small teams or startups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway helps in securing, managing, and scaling APIs efficiently. It simplifies authentication, traffic control, and monitoring, reducing the need for custom-built solutions. The plugin-based architecture allows easy extension of functionalities, improving developer productivity and API performance.
Kong Capabilites - Flexibilities of using Kong and Benefits that are provided with Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway makes life easier will all the existing capabilities that it provides through its user interface for Configuring Services, routes along with handling SSH requirements through Kong itself. It also helps in having a constant access to client servers that are on SSH but needs to be accessed while developing solutions to integrate with the apis where the ips are not static. This is one case that we use kong regularly for. I like the Request Transformation and Response Transformation feature of Kong the most. Its real pain doing that with other API Gateway solutions. If we go with native way of handling Request or Response transformations with Spring Cloud API Gateway etc.. we end with many issues that takes hell a lot of time to fix but with Kong it doesn't need to be deployed every time and with a save everything gets updated and fixing it is also gets easier and requires less effort. Also the logs of kong are also pretty much descriptive about the errors that we face in the Request routing failures, request tracking, identify the reason for failures etc..
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently I dont have any dislikes regarding Kong API Gateway and I have worked with Community and Enterprise versions and never found any issues using it. It makes our life simple. I have recommended it at many places wherever there was a need to introduce API Gateway solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway solved problems integrating with client apis by acting as a proxy to the development machines where kong was deployed on a development server where the access to client apis is only available to development server instead of developer machines. Using kong we resolved the issue of accessing urls on developer machines for easy integration and unit testing purposes. Also handling and managing client certificates becomes much more simpler with Kong rather than having them on the Microservice level. This also resolves the need of having different urls for different clients where there is only a single api exposed for all the clients on the microservice level. Also transforming request payloads and response payloads is a great use case as per me as this has resolved many such cases we had to handle custom request and response payload requirements for different clients.
The King of API Gateway is here
What do you like best about the product?
The freedom to choose different installation methods.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's nothing to dislike it best among the best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making the complete slow efficient flexible scalable meeting our goals.
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