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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 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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
1. API live tracing is not available
2. Scaling the cluster becomes challenging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
High availability, High scale, lightweight, easy to customize, and multiple deploy mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
I Like that it has good documentation, nice community and it's fast growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.

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