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Kong is great product for APIM & having potential to become Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Having mulitple security policy to secure our api
2. We can create out of box custom plugins using Lua, js, python
3. Support Hybrid model
4. Low latency
5. Easy to setup in any cloud gateway like aws,azure,gcp etc
6. Easy to integrate with third party tools like loggly, datadog , prometheus & many more
7. Konnect has recently introduced dedicated cloud gateways, which is fully managed, multi-region API management solution.
2. We can create out of box custom plugins using Lua, js, python
3. Support Hybrid model
4. Low latency
5. Easy to setup in any cloud gateway like aws,azure,gcp etc
6. Easy to integrate with third party tools like loggly, datadog , prometheus & many more
7. Konnect has recently introduced dedicated cloud gateways, which is fully managed, multi-region API management solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Thier documentation regarding things need to be more detailed
2. The developer portal needs to be more mature and should provide more functionality to the developer.
2. The developer portal needs to be more mature and should provide more functionality to the developer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong provide centralize api managment , ensuring security , scalability , low latency & streamlined development, while providing analysitic for optimization, benefiting developers and business alike. It also enhances API security, performance, and management by providing robust features like rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring.
Kong Pros and Cons
What do you like best about the product?
The nicest things about Kong API Gateway, in my opinion, are its excellent performance and extensibility via a robust community of plugins.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Kong API Gateway's management and configuration can get complicated for large-scale deployments, which is what I find objectionable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway is a scalable, high-performance platform that streamlines and protects API operations, thereby resolving issues with load balancing, authentication, rate limitation, logging, and monitoring. Users gain from this because it makes their APIs more dependable, secure, and performant, lowers operational complexity, and makes integration and expansion simpler.
I highly recommended for scalable, robust API management, overkill for simpler needs.
What do you like best about the product?
I really like Kong API Gateway's scalability, extensibility through plugins, and robust performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike Kong API Gateway's steep learning curve and complex initial setup only.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Kong API Gateway solves problems related to API traffic management, security, and scalability. It benefits users by providing efficient traffic handling, robust security features, and seamless integration with other tools, ensuring reliable and high-performance API services.
Kong is best tool for future
What do you like best about the product?
1. API Managment
2. Routing
3. Custom plugin using Lua code
4. we can easily put authentication using JWT, Key auth and OPENID connect.
5. Best thing is that plugin precedences
6. We can easily public the kong service to the dev portal using API Product
7. we can easily inegrate with third party IDP
2. Routing
3. Custom plugin using Lua code
4. we can easily put authentication using JWT, Key auth and OPENID connect.
5. Best thing is that plugin precedences
6. We can easily public the kong service to the dev portal using API Product
7. we can easily inegrate with third party IDP
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Org specific Dev portal
2. Dev portal is not really mature
3. Documentation is not really good
4. API product rate limiting plugins are not avaibale
2. Dev portal is not really mature
3. Documentation is not really good
4. API product rate limiting plugins are not avaibale
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Low Latency
2. We can monitize API using Dev portal
3. Easy to setup
4. Booming product
5. Easy to use
2. We can monitize API using Dev portal
3. Easy to setup
4. Booming product
5. Easy to use
Great and useful tool - kong
What do you like best about the product?
1. API Managment
2. Routing
3. Cutom plugin using Lua code
4. we can easily put authentication using JWT, Key auth and OPENID connect.
5. Best thing is that plugin precedences
6. Authorization using ACL plugin
7. We can easily public the kong service to the dev portal using API Product
8. New commers can easily learn kong by using kongacademy
9. we can easily inegrate with third party IDP
2. Routing
3. Cutom plugin using Lua code
4. we can easily put authentication using JWT, Key auth and OPENID connect.
5. Best thing is that plugin precedences
6. Authorization using ACL plugin
7. We can easily public the kong service to the dev portal using API Product
8. New commers can easily learn kong by using kongacademy
9. we can easily inegrate with third party IDP
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Org specific Dev portal
2. Dev portal is not really mature
3. Documentation is not really good
2. Dev portal is not really mature
3. Documentation is not really good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Low Latency
2. We can monitize API using Dev portal
3. Easy to setup
4. Booming product
2. We can monitize API using Dev portal
3. Easy to setup
4. Booming product
Create product and potential future market leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Low latency
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?
Kong api gateway efficiently managed our apis by routing, securing and monitoring traffic, reducing manual overhead
This enhances security provides valuable analytics and allow our team to focus on development
This enhances security provides valuable analytics and allow our team to focus on development
Kong :Future of Api Management
What do you like best about the product?
1.Strong Security
2.Extensive Plugin Ecosystem
3.Simplified User Interface
4.Good Performance
5.Good Scalability
2.Extensive Plugin Ecosystem
3.Simplified User Interface
4.Good Performance
5.Good Scalability
What do you dislike about the product?
1.It has Performance Issues
2.Complex Debugging Tools and Techniques
3.Less Documentation available to study in depth.
2.Complex Debugging Tools and Techniques
3.Less Documentation available to study in depth.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1..It Provides API Traffic Control
2. Provides good security measures
3.It Provides Flexibility and Customization for API Management
4.Good Monitoring and Observability Feature
5. Proves Less costly in Compare to other tools.
2. Provides good security measures
3.It Provides Flexibility and Customization for API Management
4.Good Monitoring and Observability Feature
5. Proves Less costly in Compare to other tools.
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What do you like best about the product?
Scalablity, flexibility, security, plugins which helps a lot in short and long term in software products.
What do you dislike about the product?
lack of proper documentation which easily can be understood. Bit complex and difficult to learn for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides scalability, flexibility and security and allow to use plugins which makes it great choice to use in product building.
Product Review
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility scalability security plugins analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity
Lack of built in api documentation
Limited developer portal feature
Lack of built in api documentation
Limited developer portal feature
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and access control
Scalability
Integration and interoperability
Scalability
Integration and interoperability
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.
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