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What is Kong API Platform?

The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.

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The world’s most sensitive and critical traffic volumes run on Kong. Why? With battle-tested open-source technology and enterprise-grade solutions and support, Kong is the most trusted and performant cloud-native API management platform for the modern tech stack. And since Kong is cloud, protocol, and language agnostic, our products work seamlessly with both emerging and legacy technologies. That’s why developers building modern enterprises find success with Kong.


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Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.


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Alberto G.
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Software Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

What I most like about Insomnia is its user interface. You don't feel burdened by hundreds of options or buttons. Most things are easy to find, and the distribution of Request's List, Request Body, and Response Body are lovely and understandable, especially on small screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

What I dislike about Insomnia is that it doesn't have a free tier and doesn't support as much automation as Postman. Apart from that, it is an excellent REST client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Insomnia solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used it for about five years and still love it. I used it to test and debug APIs, to group my resources, and export them so I could import them later. I used it to share the collections with other programmers, but that company stopped paying for it because not many people used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit K.
SK
Technical Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Not all plugins are free plus it lack to do complex taks like which can be done by IBM API connect or Apigee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

We've had to contact support in the past with upgrade issues who were really helpful and responsive to the questions and issues we had at the time. Overall kong has been really nice to use for scaling out to our needs with us not noticing any performance decreases over peak load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Using kong with terraform seems to be missing some features and the terraform docs could be a little more clear with more outputs/attributes listed. However, it seems moving away from terraform might be the better solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've found the monitoring side of kong super helpful in the past and relatively easy to integrate into logstash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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Shivam K.
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Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

1. Provide features like Load balancing , Caching

2. Provide all kind of authentication mechanisms on gateway level

3. Solid support for Orchestration tools like Kubernetes

4. Route limiting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

1. API live tracing is not available

2. Scaling the cluster becomes challenging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong gateway provides ready to use api gateway solutions that helps with all essential requirements like load balance, routing, rate limiting and authentication etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

High availability, High scale, lightweight, easy to customize, and multiple deploy mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Lack of programming support (Just native with Lua). Must improve the monitoring function of commerce products. The integration with external monitoring systems is still not stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong API Gateway helps our company build a center API Gateway. So we can easily manage and maintain API endpoints. Enhance control and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I Like that it has good documentation, nice community and it's fast growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I dislike that there is still not aligned the path for the declarative approach. I see in a future pull request there is a kong2kic subcommand which makes me positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

helps me and the company to manage, control and utilize the api calls that are produced by other software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepak K.
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Senior Integration Consultant
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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong Gateway provides various options to configure and run in customer-hosted infrastructure. Kong also provides a lot of ready-to-use artefacts to install and configure the Kong gateway with a few steps. It out of the box offers a lot of plugins (policies) to govern the APIs and also provides the capability to develop our own custom plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The Kong community is still evolving and there is little help available in the community to discuss issues. The documentation is also limited over the internet. There are only few trainings available in their LMS and there is no support available if something is wrong with the training steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Kong Gateway in hybrid mode with Kong Mesh in our organisation. We are using Kong Mesh for our microservices and this allows us to efficiently communicate with other services without leaving the Mesh network. We use Kong Gateway to govern and protect our API proxies running in Mesh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ralph C.
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Site Reliability Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

It's able to be built on kubernetes microservices, interested in Kong Mesh, not sure how it stacks up to istio service mesh though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moving from monolith to microservices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Malay M.
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Frontend
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Easy-to-use User interface for setup and monitoring. Helpful quick start guide to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The Kong community support is not strong and is still evolving. The community needs to grow in order to find help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Gateway as a solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.