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Verry good peace of software
What do you like best about the product?
Efficient handling of large volumes of traffic.
Wide range of plugins for customization.
Easy to scale horizontally to meet demand.
Comprehensive security features to protect APIs.
Free to use with a strong community backing.
we use the free version for our main product
Wide range of plugins for customization.
Easy to scale horizontally to meet demand.
Comprehensive security features to protect APIs.
Free to use with a strong community backing.
we use the free version for our main product
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be complex for beginners to set up and configure.
May require significant resources for high-traffic scenarios.
Some advanced features and support are only available in the paid enterprise version.
May require significant resources for high-traffic scenarios.
Some advanced features and support are only available in the paid enterprise version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong serve us as a ingress controller with user authentication and authorization and a gateway.
Product review
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, scalability, security ,builtin analytics and monitoring capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity and limited developer portal features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized Api management, extensibility and plug-in ecosystem.
Engineering Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Stability and ease of use.
It helped us to improve our API experience
It helped us to improve our API experience
What do you dislike about the product?
As such nothing, it is working seamless in our applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Authentication and authorisation
Pioneering Product on Track to Become Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Huge range of plugins which are useful.
2. Low latetency
3. Easy to setup.
4.Easy to use.
5. Easy to integrate with other platform.
2. Low latetency
3. Easy to setup.
4.Easy to use.
5. Easy to integrate with other platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Debveloper portal should be more mature.
2. Kong Documentation should be imroved and more detailed.
2. Kong Documentation should be imroved and more detailed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API gateway helps us to manage our APIs by securing, routing and monitoring trafic which helps us to reduce manual overhead which in return helps in enhancing security, provide us with valuable analytics and allows us to focus on our development.
From Product Creation to Future Market Dominance
What do you like best about the product?
High performance and scalability, even under heavy traffic.
Flexible plugin architecture that allows easy customization and extension.
Strong security features, including authentication, rate limiting, and traffic control.
Native service mesh compatibility, enabling seamless integration with modern architectures.
Wide range of built-in and community plugins that simplify data transformation and API operations.
Simple setup and user-friendly configuration, making onboarding and deployment very smooth.
Flexible plugin architecture that allows easy customization and extension.
Strong security features, including authentication, rate limiting, and traffic control.
Native service mesh compatibility, enabling seamless integration with modern architectures.
Wide range of built-in and community plugins that simplify data transformation and API operations.
Simple setup and user-friendly configuration, making onboarding and deployment very smooth.
What do you dislike about the product?
More detailed and example-rich documentation to help developers understand advanced configurations and edge cases.
Improved debugging and troubleshooting tools, especially around plugin errors, request tracing, and performance bottlenecks.
Enhanced UI visibility in Kong Manager for monitoring, logs, and analytics.
Simplified configuration for complex deployments, such as hybrid mode or multi-cluster setups
Improved debugging and troubleshooting tools, especially around plugin errors, request tracing, and performance bottlenecks.
Enhanced UI visibility in Kong Manager for monitoring, logs, and analytics.
Simplified configuration for complex deployments, such as hybrid mode or multi-cluster setups
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Traffic Management
Security
Extensibility and Customization
Observability and Monitoring
Security
Extensibility and Customization
Observability and Monitoring
Develop a Product and Pinpoint a Prospective Future Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
1.Decentralized & High-Performance Architecture
2.Service Mesh Support (Kuma/Envoy Integration)
3.Powerful Declarative Configuration (GitOps-Friendly)
2.Service Mesh Support (Kuma/Envoy Integration)
3.Powerful Declarative Configuration (GitOps-Friendly)
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Kong has many plugins, some community plugins lack maintenance, updates, and version compatibility.
A more standardized, validated plugin ecosystem would help developers.
A more standardized, validated plugin ecosystem would help developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway streamlines API management by efficiently routing, securing, and monitoring traffic, thereby reducing manual effort. This bolsters security, offers valuable analytics, and enables our team to concentrate on development.
Kong Api review
What do you like best about the product?
This is vey robust and easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is very expencive for small level of company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It generates api in small spam of time.
Create Product and potential future market leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Low Latest
2. Lots of plugins which is useful
3. Ease of use and setup
2. Lots of plugins which is useful
3. Ease of use and setup
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong Documentation needs to be more detailed and their Developer portal needs to be more mature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It efficiently manages our APIs by routing, securing, and monitoring traffic, reducing manual overhead.
This enhances security, provides valuable analytics, and allows our team to focus on development.
This enhances security, provides valuable analytics, and allows our team to focus on development.
Great tool and Market leader
What do you like best about the product?
In 2025, Kong has releasae lots of new features in Kong Konnect like in AI Gateway it has release Automated RAG Pipelines , PII Sanitization plugins and also enhance Enhanced security and reliability.
Kong also release a debug tracing where we can see the live tracing, which is really good and too fast compare to other APIM.
Kong has also release Kong Event Gateway which is tailored for event-driven architecture which extends Kong's reach beyound synchronous REST.gRPC APIs to tackle streaming and event-based workflow
Kong also release a debug tracing where we can see the live tracing, which is really good and too fast compare to other APIM.
Kong has also release Kong Event Gateway which is tailored for event-driven architecture which extends Kong's reach beyound synchronous REST.gRPC APIs to tackle streaming and event-based workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
I want Kong Gateway to also work as an Identity Provider (IDP) so it can create and manage tokens on its own, instead of depending on third-party platforms like Okta, Auth0, and others.
Kong Gateway Operator 1.5 is powerful, but CRDs can be verbose, and debugging misconfigurations still requires YAML diving.
Kong Gateway Operator 1.5 is powerful, but CRDs can be verbose, and debugging misconfigurations still requires YAML diving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It centralizes API management, ensuring security, scalability, and streamlined development, while providing analytics for optimization, benefiting developers and businesses alike.
Great Product having Potential of being the Segment Leader
What do you like best about the product?
after my previous response, I can see various plugins such as PII sanitization and Automated RAG injector as welll as trace tool for debugging is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong is not acting as an IDP server, we are not able to generate tokens from kong itself, we have to use third party IDP servers as okta, oauth 0 etc, so it will be good if we can get this functionality in kong itself, so it can compete with other API gateways like Apigee.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It addresses traffic control, security, and service discovery issues, ensuring efficient API management and high availability. It benefits organizations by providing robust security, scalability, and operational efficiency, enhancing overall API performance and reliability.
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