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Best gateway in the market
What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight with low cost on infrastructure to run.
Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin
Support multi-cloud deployment and integration
Easy to customize the developer portal
Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin
Support multi-cloud deployment and integration
Easy to customize the developer portal
What do you dislike about the product?
Product Roadmap - time to delivery can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gateway service for all our microservice-based architecture. Runs on container and also support ingress controller requirement.
Fast and easy
What do you like best about the product?
Fast and high throughput support as always.
What do you dislike about the product?
Api dependency is fixed now and works smooth
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it as an open-source API gateway for managing my microservices. I also used it for verifying JWT.
Kong API Gateway Review for API aggregation
What do you like best about the product?
now the API Gateway is much more stable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Things lloks good. i do not have anything to advice for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I mostly use microservices (docker containers), so kong is a really good option as an API Gateway. it's support for docker is really good and easy. that is why I use cong for projects.
Amazing & Lighting Fast API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Light Weight, Easy to Install & Configure and Super Fast
What do you dislike about the product?
Traceability Features & Access of Logs, RBAC
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management
API Security
API throtling
API Security
API throtling
Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The first thing of Kong API that ilI like the Most is it's popularity among the World. Can be used in both Hybrid and Multi cloud, it's well optimised for Microservices. It supports Load Balancing of API that's what the most I like of it. We can do clustering, checking health, monitoring few more things. It can even run in Kubernetes. It's Open Source the most Important thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The part that I don't like of Kong API gateway is we need more Integration with Kubernetes. Need more Medium post on Kong API gateways. Some times issue with connection it's get refused sometimes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most Important thing that Kong API gateway solving for me is that it have a large community that you can use to grow. It's open source making itself a large community. Scaling plays a main role as we need to it when traffic is high or when the network is congested Kong is the solution for this use it, if we are facing issue with scalling.
KONG API gateway came so handy and surprised us with tons of external plugins
What do you like best about the product?
Kong was the best open-source api gateway due to its simplicity. It's effortless to use and easy to integrate into your system. with multiple plugins you'll find yourself wanting to use to keep your APIs optimized
What do you dislike about the product?
So far nothing, just wished the kong manager GUI was free
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing the team with a central gateway that all the team can use. Saves time by not reinventing the wheel. Provides access and tracking with management using the plugins. Also helped in creating alerts when one of the APIs fail by using the grafana and Prometheus dashboard
Light, fast and simple
What do you like best about the product?
It's simple to understand e put in production, it's light, fast because nginx. nad is highly customizable with plugins
What do you dislike about the product?
Tthe OSS requires a lot of work to automate and manage efficiently
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide an API ux unique for the monoliths and other microsevices
Best API gateway tool -Load Balancing and reverse Proxy workd pretty well and configured.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong offers good traffic control capabilities, including load balancing and request routing. It enables us to efficiently distribute incoming API requests across multiple backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
Kong API gateway - gateway to success
What do you like best about the product?
Configurability, ease of use, Informative logging
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation seems to be not complete in terms of troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to manage the complete API ingress.
Simple API Gateway to do the job
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is easy to use, setup and simple API gateway which can provide proxies to your microservice architecture. It can provide extra features using plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all plugins are free plus it lack to do complex taks like which can be done by IBM API connect or Apigee
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proxy for API and helping to achieve event based architecture in the Organisation. Kong solution is easy to scale and manage.
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