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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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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I like the variety of deployment options Kong has, which are documented thoroughly and provide a lot of flexibility. It also scales very well, making it easy to support ellastic tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I think there is quite a lot of space to improve the developer portals. But I am impressed pretty much that it can be used in hybrid/multi-clouds and it supports load balancing pretty well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Both API design and management. It provided us a roadway to follow to design our APIs and simplified the management of our APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

It is very extensible for any customization to extend the capabilities. Many built-in plugins are helpful for many use cases without research. It is a tool any admin can handle quickly and is very much self explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Actionable insights / API insights / API inventory and reporting capabilities as today governance and security being paramount, any built-in options will help to make more capable.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a one-stop solution for businesses to expose an API to consumers and ensure performance on every aspect of traffic management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong was the best open-source api gateway due to its simplicity. It's effortless to use and easy to integrate into your system. with multiple plugins you'll find yourself wanting to use to keep your APIs optimized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

So far nothing, just wished the kong manager GUI was free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Providing the team with a central gateway that all the team can use. Saves time by not reinventing the wheel. Provides access and tracking with management using the plugins. Also helped in creating alerts when one of the APIs fail by using the grafana and Prometheus dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong is one of the best API management, where we can implement multi level auth and security functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

bit complicated to implent with cloud Infra Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It was helping us to configure the API gateway and implent multi layer functionality for cross origin request Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

One of the strengths of Kong API Gateway is its scalability. The software is built on top of the popular open-source Nginx web server and is designed to handle large amounts of traffic and high numbers of concurrent connections. It can be easily deployed on-premises or in the cloud and can be used to manage and secure APIs at any scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is an open-source software, which means that users will have to rely on community support and self-help resources. This could be an issue for users who require more direct and specialized support.The software may have limited options for integrating with other platforms or services, which could make it less convenient for some users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway is a powerful and flexible open-source API gateway that offers a wide range of features and capabilities. Its scalability and flexibility make it a great choice for businesses and organizations looking to manage, secure, and extend their microservices and APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

It's simple and intuitive to use and it help a lot in the coding flow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

nothing yet, every thing are good for now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Avoid to use the frond end or skip some process to focus in endpoits only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Configuring and enabling security,

Good Customer Support,Ease of Implementation,Ease of Use, good for Frequency of Use,

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What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Nothing much to say dislike,Ease of Integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps to soling peer APIs connectivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Very easy to use. It is feature rich. Very developer/operator friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Nothing i can think of. Frequent releases will help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to onboard API's, including various configuration options. Excellent monitoring capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

It helped us to ship feature-rich APIs faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

We didn't find any downside to the Kong API Gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It enables us to design APIs faster, more efficiently, and more securely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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