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Kong API GW is a popular for managing APIs. It's known for being fast,flexible and easy to set up.
What do you like best about the product?
-->High performance and scalability
-->Flexibility and ease of use
-->Extensibility with plugins
-->Flexibility and ease of use
-->Extensibility with plugins
What do you dislike about the product?
Security configuration complexity
Management overhead for multiple Gateways
Management overhead for multiple Gateways
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized API Security
Improved Visibility and Monitoring
Flexibility for Different Deployments
Improved Visibility and Monitoring
Flexibility for Different Deployments
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Your APIs deserve a Kong
What do you like best about the product?
Stable, powerful, easy to configure, extensible, fast and quality customer support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Product development removes features we're using, like vitals (fine grained metrics), developer portal, insomnia free on-premise git sync.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Kong API Gateway we have a central place for internal and external systems to call a variety of exposed API's. Kong provides security (apikey / OAuth2), access control and the API catalogue.
It's great & reliable to use
What do you like best about the product?
It's best in connection pool (i.e connection is good ), as compare to usage it is great as compared to other API
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such of now I seen in my experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have created portal for api, manage them and adjust for scaling
Best Cloud Native API Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API Gateway is valued for its scalability and flexibility, with open-source architecture, extensive plugin support, and a vibrant community. It excels in managing, securing, and optimizing API traffic
What do you dislike about the product?
Some users find the initial setup and configuration of Kong API Gateway to be complex and challenging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API Gateway addresses challenges in managing, securing, and optimizing API traffic, providing benefits such as enhanced scalability, flexibility in deployment, robust performance monitoring, and a customizable architecture through plugins. It streamlines API management, fostering improved reliability, security, and overall efficiency in handling diverse and complex API ecosystems.
I use kong for production applications
What do you like best about the product?
It has all the features for terminating ssl, rate limiting and also all the metrics
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve. And othen than that i don't have anything
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it has the UI to manage configuration
Common API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Kong is just a common API Gateway, portable, similar to API Gee. The fast way that process petitions is the thing i like most
What do you dislike about the product?
Is not easy, and in some cases not possible, to develop custom policies for hard bussiness logic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Designed for passthroug APIs from my point of view and some out of the ox transformations
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.
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.
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