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Unlocking Seamless API Management
What do you like best about the product?
I like best part of Kong API Gateway is its high performance and versatility, making it exceptionally well-suited for Cloud Native and DevOps-oriented architectures. And also best part is its open-source nature which will support for various deployment modes.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike main thing about Kong API Gateway is it's absence of an Analytics & Monitoring. Also for enterprise version licensing model is complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway is helpful for us in streamlining the process by efficiently handling access control, security, and monitoring of our in-house APIs.
Its scalability features enables us to handle large API traffic volumes, which ensures optimal performance of our api services. It's load balancing capabilities contribute to our improved system scalability and resilience.
Its scalability features enables us to handle large API traffic volumes, which ensures optimal performance of our api services. It's load balancing capabilities contribute to our improved system scalability and resilience.
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Kong API - A great tool for API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Performance, Easy to use and manage. Ease of Integration
What do you dislike about the product?
the documentation lacking in clarity or depth, making it challenging to troubleshoot issues or implement advanced configurations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unified API Management: Kong acts as a centralized entry point for managing APIs, providing a unified interface to control authentication, rate limiting, logging, and other functionalities. This streamlines API management, making it easier to monitor and control API traffic. Traffic Control and Monitoring: Kong enables rate limiting, caching, and throttling, controlling the flow of traffic to APIs. It also provides monitoring and analytics tools to track API usage, performance, and errors.
DevOps and Cloud Native API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is a very high-performance opensource API Gateway particularly suitable for Cloud Native and DevOps Oriented architectures, it is suitable for installation on different architectures both in on-premise, cloud and hybrid modes. It is a complete product also includes Insomnia as an API Test and Designer tool and also, in the enterprise version, a Developer Portal also oriented towards IaC and the development of APIs from an API First perspective.
The hybrid installation via Kong Konnect is very quick and powerful and allows you to outsource all management except for the dataplanes which are installed on-premise and managed remotely. The on-premise version is easy to install. It can eb configured both via web interface and through a declarative configuration as well. In terms of support, the Enterprise version offers very fast and efficient support.
It supports native CLI tools to launch test and deploy configuration in your CI/CD pipelines
The hybrid installation via Kong Konnect is very quick and powerful and allows you to outsource all management except for the dataplanes which are installed on-premise and managed remotely. The on-premise version is easy to install. It can eb configured both via web interface and through a declarative configuration as well. In terms of support, the Enterprise version offers very fast and efficient support.
It supports native CLI tools to launch test and deploy configuration in your CI/CD pipelines
What do you dislike about the product?
Although it offers a rich set of plugins that easily integrates with tools like Prometeus, DataDog, Zipkin lacks an Analytics & Monitoring API tool. There is no management of Monteziation API.
For the Enterprise version the licensing model is a bit complicated because it depends on the number of invocations but also on the concept of gateway service, which is not always easy to keep under control.
For the Enterprise version the licensing model is a bit complicated because it depends on the number of invocations but also on the concept of gateway service, which is not always easy to keep under control.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Create a complete API Management platform that safely manages APIs, implements authentication and authorization and governance logics and which, in particular through automation tools, allows fast integration with CI/CD tools both in the development of traditional and in the development of APIs created on Kubernetes (via KIC Kubernetes Ingress Controller)
Solid API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Super easy to setup in a cloud provider or even as a container running in your own network, exposing which services you want to the outside world.
Pretty easy to configure and maintain, has good documentation, and a good community around.
Pretty easy to configure and maintain, has good documentation, and a good community around.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open source version is somewhat limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Services with different runtimes are easily plugged into and served from the gateway, not limiting the tech stack.
User and access management is outside the services and its databases, and no need for extra cloud providers' services.
User and access management is outside the services and its databases, and no need for extra cloud providers' services.
Kong API Gateway: Robust and Flexible API Management
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Kong API Gateway for its robust and flexible API management capabilities. The platform excels in handling API traffic, providing authentication, and ensuring scalability. The intuitive user interface makes API configuration and monitoring straightforward. Additionally, the active community support and regular updates contribute to a positive experience. Overall, Kong API Gateway has proven to be a reliable solution for our API infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong API Gateway offers robust API management, there are a few aspects that could be improved. which has posed challenges for our team. Additionally, Enhancements in [areas of improvement] would contribute to an even better experience with Kong API Gateway.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway effectively solves key API management challenges. It streamlines API traffic, ensuring reliability and scalability. The platform enhances security through robust authentication and authorization features, mitigating potential vulnerabilities. With Kong, we've gained centralized control over our APIs, simplified configuration, and improved monitoring. These benefits contribute to a more resilient, secure, and efficient API infrastructure, ultimately enhancing our overall digital operations and user experiences.
Rapid Installation and easy to configure for basic API requirements
What do you like best about the product?
Effortless Setup: The quick start guide provides a seamless onboarding experience and with a single bash command you are up and running with Kong API Gateway.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not specific uptil now. I am using OSS version and I feel all my requirements are catered through it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway solves the problem solved by any API Gateway like:
- Security of the exposed APIs
- Monitoring, analytics and Observability of the APIs
- Rate Limiting
- Traffic Control
- Service Discovery and Load Balancing
The best part is Kong lets these do easily through easy to use configurations and settings in the UI
- Security of the exposed APIs
- Monitoring, analytics and Observability of the APIs
- Rate Limiting
- Traffic Control
- Service Discovery and Load Balancing
The best part is Kong lets these do easily through easy to use configurations and settings in the UI
Excellent working exposure with Kong API gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Configuring and enabling security,
Good Customer Support,Ease of Implementation,Ease of Use, good for Frequency of Use,
Number of Features
Good Customer Support,Ease of Implementation,Ease of Use, good for Frequency of Use,
Number of Features
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much to say dislike,Ease of Integration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to soling peer APIs connectivity
Amazing technology solving real world problems
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. I have been using it for a few months and I am able to appreciate the vast amount of features it provides to ease the entire software development process.
What do you dislike about the product?
While there aren't many things I dislike about the Kong API Gateway, the documentation, migration and upgrades are a few pain points
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway solves a multitude of problems that greatly benefit me and many others in the tech world. Firstly, it streamlines the process of managing APIs by acting as a central hub for controlling, securing, and monitoring all API traffic. This resolves the issue of dealing with disparate systems and simplifies the overall API management process. Moreover, Kong Gateway enhances security by providing robust authentication, authorization, and encryption features. This helps in safeguarding sensitive data and preventing unauthorized access, ensuring compliance with various security standards and regulations. Additionally, Kong Gateway optimizes performance by offloading tasks like rate limiting, caching, and load balancing, thereby improving the overall speed and reliability of API interactions. This ensures a seamless experience for both developers and end-users, reducing latency and enhancing scalability. Furthermore, Kong's analytics and monitoring capabilities offer valuable insights into API usage patterns, performance metrics, and potential issues. This empowers me to make data-driven decisions, troubleshoot problems efficiently, and optimize the APIs for better performance and user experience. Overall, Kong API Gateway's ability to address these challenges – from simplifying management to enhancing security and performance – significantly benefits me by saving time, ensuring data security, improving API reliability, and enabling better decision-making based on comprehensive analytics.
kong with terraform
What do you like best about the product?
We've had to contact support in the past with upgrade issues who were really helpful and responsive to the questions and issues we had at the time. Overall kong has been really nice to use for scaling out to our needs with us not noticing any performance decreases over peak load.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using kong with terraform seems to be missing some features and the terraform docs could be a little more clear with more outputs/attributes listed. However, it seems moving away from terraform might be the better solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've found the monitoring side of kong super helpful in the past and relatively easy to integrate into logstash
Kong API Gateway : Best ready to use tool
What do you like best about the product?
1. Provide features like Load balancing , Caching
2. Provide all kind of authentication mechanisms on gateway level
3. Solid support for Orchestration tools like Kubernetes
4. Route limiting
2. Provide all kind of authentication mechanisms on gateway level
3. Solid support for Orchestration tools like Kubernetes
4. Route limiting
What do you dislike about the product?
1. API live tracing is not available
2. Scaling the cluster becomes challenging
2. Scaling the cluster becomes challenging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong gateway provides ready to use api gateway solutions that helps with all essential requirements like load balance, routing, rate limiting and authentication etc.
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