Kong is a company that self-manages the progress and possibilities of the result for other companies, has a well-consolidated and justified API design, has tools for the protection of multiple threats and malicious viruses for our company, we have a communications panel, Prudent access control and formidable information traffic control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We do not have system samples for long periods of time to test the software, nor less free versions that do not make your strategy system accessible to the client, it is considered that more information would be missing from the software and, therefore, would generate more confidence, and finally it has a slow interface but despite this well formulated and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Kong as an API Management Solution for External APIs
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Coming from a security engineer we can add custom logic in the form of kong gateway plugin. it's extensible to a decent scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
i found it difficult to implement on a personal research level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
All most everything. Like plugins and all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
here comes the main thing come on to that what i dont like is that -
1. Lack of Client credential storage operation which we get in apigee and IBM connect.
2. Way worse developer portal in comparison of the other developer portals.
3. Frequent issues in syncing of Dataplane is a big concern.
4. the document should be more detailed and on point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
obviously there are things that are likeable like -
1.the automation process of the deployment of entities and developer portal is great in kong konnect due to the Admin/Management API.
2.Its way easier to use in comparison of IBM connect , akana and Apigee.
3. It justifies its cost to the consumers as it is not the expensive to subscribe for.
4. The plugin stack of kong is great and still in progress of adding more plugins like with the implementation of AI.
5. The low latency for the API request is a great plus too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
here comes the thing which are not talk about much about kong-
1. kong is yet to understand the requirements of the clients let alone the thought of implementing it, because it takes too much time (months)to solve a simple bug .
2. Delay in deliviring products like kong mesh and Api hub is a big negative for me.
3. they should tie with more CRM's to provide a better experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Upsides:
Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Downsides:
Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that the service is very detailed and efficient. We have no had any problems at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We would wish there was a way to incorporate more of our services with KONG API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Their help has been invaluable in getting our infra up and running in record time, & they are always abailble to assist us as wheen i need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
they charge quite a bit for licenses, and their method of calculating cost based both on API calls and no. of services is quite restrictive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Kong API Gateway has some amazing features like
i) It can handle large volume of api requests very efficiently
ii) It supports wide variety of plugins whihch makes it easier to implement new features
iii) It is easier to implement and signup is pretty straight forward
iv) It has very large documentation base which makes easier to debug issues and their customer support is also very reliable
v) It is easier to integrate with different platforms and has robust security features in-built Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's developer portal is pretty basic and could be imporved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ease of Integration, Ease of Use and Number of features are very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
nothing much, it has all the necessary components for API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Built on OpenResty, with straightforward Kubernetes resource definition of routes. The documentation was good as well, and there are free plugins and an open source variant of Kong to get you locked in before you realize the need to switch to another provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
They are dropping their support for Alpine-based images, and their Ubuntu base image brings about too large an attack surface. So you have to build Kong yourself, but the Enterprise Gateway product adds closed source modifications so it's impossible to get a secure build. Also, you have to go with enterprise for FIPS, which is reasonable if it wasn't prohibitively priced. They charge for every separate microservice TIMES every environment, including QA or trial environments. Basically, this makes them implicitly discourage companies from decoupling their enterprise application into separate services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
