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Kong Gateway Enterprise

Kong | 3.5

Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Durgesh P.

Best API Management tool

  • November 11, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong is one of the best API management, where we can implement multi level auth and security functionality
What do you dislike about the product?
bit complicated to implent with cloud Infra
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was helping us to configure the API gateway and implent multi layer functionality for cross origin request


    Ralph C.

Build on Kubernetes Microservices

  • November 11, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It's able to be built on kubernetes microservices, interested in Kong Mesh, not sure how it stacks up to istio service mesh though.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up Kong and configuring it for specific use cases can be complex. There is a bit of a learning curves for DevOps and Developers as well with its rich-ehancement features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving from monolith to microservices


    Ketan D.

Kong is a great product

  • November 11, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong API gateway has many features and is very useful. The upsides are high availability and a very reliable platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I can think of at the moment. Everything is gravy!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It serves as our front door to our applications, keeping everything secure.


    Airlines/Aviation

Kong API

  • November 11, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use, Easy to maintain and troubleshooting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support and support materials need to be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining different API url are tedious jobs..Kong is making it simple.


    Financial Services

Kong API review

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
it has many useful features and help developers save time to develop functions
What do you dislike about the product?
it is difficult to setup and manage the whole platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we planning to migrate from monolithic platform to micro services model


    Non-Profit Organization Management

Efficient and low cost REST API gateway

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like the variety of deployment options Kong has, which are documented thoroughly and provide a lot of flexibility. It also scales very well, making it easy to support ellastic tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there is quite a lot of space to improve the developer portals. But I am impressed pretty much that it can be used in hybrid/multi-clouds and it supports load balancing pretty well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Both API design and management. It provided us a roadway to follow to design our APIs and simplified the management of our APIs.


    Timurlan R.

service

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It helped us to ship feature-rich APIs faster
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't find any downside to the Kong API Gateway
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables us to design APIs faster, more efficiently, and more securely.


    Mohammed Ilyas A.

Load balancing features, helping distribute incoming API requests.

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong's rich plugin ecosystem is often highlighted as a major strength. It offers a wide range of plugins for authentication, rate limiting, logging, security, transformations, and more. This flexibility allows you to customize and extend the functionality of your API gateway according to your specific needs.

Scalability: Kong is designed to be highly scalable, making it suitable for handling a large volume of API traffic. Its architecture supports horizontal scaling, enabling you to distribute the load across multiple instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited GUI Interface: Kong primarily relies on a RESTful API for configuration. While there are community-contributed UIs, the official graphical user interface (GUI) may not be as feature-rich.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps API rate limiting


    Diego R.

Empowering API Management with Kong

  • November 10, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway excels in its user-friendly interface, making API management a seamless process. Its extensive features, from traffic control to security measures, are highly advantageous.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong API Gateway is robust, there are occasional complexities in the implementation process, demanding a steeper learning curve. Moreover, the support documentation could be more comprehensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway resolves a multitude of API management issues by offering a centralized platform for comprehensive control and security over our APIs. This centralized control enables efficient traffic management, security enhancements, and facilitates easy monitoring. The benefits are multifold:

Efficiency in Management: Kong has simplified our API management processes, offering a unified and user-friendly interface. This has streamlined our tasks, saving time and resources.

Enhanced Security Measures: The robust security features provided by Kong have significantly bolstered our API security, ensuring data integrity and shielding against potential threats.

Scalability and Performance: The Gateway's capabilities in traffic control and load balancing have significantly improved our API performance, ensuring scalability during high-demand periods.

Insightful Monitoring: Kong's monitoring tools offer valuable insights into API usage, helping us make informed decisions for optimization and improvements.

In summary, Kong API Gateway's solution has notably optimized our API management, ensuring a more secure, efficient, and scalable infrastructure, ultimately benefiting our operational efficiency and data security.


    Melanie C.

An unbeatable combination of security, scalability, and flexibility

  • October 18, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I am thoroughly impresse­d with the commitment to security de­monstrated by Kong API Gateway. Additionally, its ability to scale on-de­mand and the wide range of plugins it offe­rs, along with their ease of inte­gration, have greatly optimized our API manage­ment tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Troubleshooting issues with the Kong API can be quite difficult, but offering more descriptive error messages will greatly enhance the process and deliver substantial advantages for users of this software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Kong API Gateway has effectively solved our problems with API security, handling high traffic, and customization. Its wide range of features allows us to consistently deliver seamless API experiences.