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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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Verified User in Investment Banking
AI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong is just a common API Gateway, portable, similar to API Gee. The fast way that process petitions is the thing i like most Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Is not easy, and in some cases not possible, to develop custom policies for hard bussiness logic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Designed for passthroug APIs from my point of view and some out of the ox transformations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Walid M.
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Communications System 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 Efficient API management for microservices.

And Ease of Implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

it's very reliable system nothing is wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There was a problem in management system and solved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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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?

Set of possibilities, full range of characteristics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Price, may be cheaper, taking into account that it is not a market leader Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cybersecurity, DDOS, throtling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahendra B.
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Associate Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

The best thing about Insomnia is it's user friendly interface. It's not complex set of things and new users also can easily understand. I can have multiple group of sub projects which helps me in microservices environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

There is nothing much to dislike about Insomnia. But in the market there very good competetion from other applications like postman. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When working in microservices we need to develop policies for the gateway servers. The Insomnia supports a wide variety of programming languages and the UI is also very good. This saves me lot of time unilike other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tlotlo K.
TK
Co-Founder & CTO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

What I like best about Kong API Gateway is how feature-rich it is. It provides a lot of functionality, so it's easy to customize and extend. And it's also very user-friendly, so it's easy to set up and get up and running Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

One of the things I dislike about Kong API Gateway is that the documentation can be a bit confusing to interpret. It's also not always clear which features are essential for a specific use case. 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 helping me to solve complex problems associated with managing multiple applications, APIs, and services. It's benefiting me by allowing me to streamline my workflow and simplify the process of managing multiple systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a reviewer, I appreciate Kong API Gateway's flexibility and customizability the most. Users can quickly adapt and tailor the tool to match their unique demands because of its user-friendly platform and variety of plugins. Additionally, it's an excellent choice for businesses trying to simplify API management and enhance the performance and security of their microservices, thanks to its extensive security features, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and analytics tools. Overall, Kong API Gateway is a solid and adaptable technology that may assist businesses of all sizes in improving their API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I must give a fair evaluation of Kong API Gateway as a reviewer. Even while some users have mentioned complexity and sporadic bugs, these are problems that all API gateways face and are not specific to Kong API Gateway. Kong API Gateway is still a popular option for API management despite this because of its flexibility, security features, and monitoring capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway revolutionizes API management by resolving complex performance and security issues. The Kong API Gateway streamlines API management and enhances microservices for maximum performance and dependability with a single entry point for all API traffic, specific security features, and potent monitoring and analytics capabilities. No matter how big or small your business is, Kong API Gateway offers several advantages that can help you increase the effectiveness and security of your API management procedures, lower the chance of security breaches, and ensure your microservices are as reliable and fast as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sanjay P.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

One of the key advantages of Kong API Gateway is its flexibility and versatility. It offers a wide range of features and customization options, allowing users to tailor the solution to their specific needs and requirements. It also supports various deployment options, from on-premise installations to cloud-based environments, and can integrate with a broad range of third-party tools and platforms. Additionally, Kong's focus on security and reliability helps ensure that APIs are protected and perform well, which is critical for many organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

One potential downside of Kong API Gateway is that its extensive feature set and flexibility can make it complex to set up and configure, particularly for less experienced users. Some users have reported that the documentation could be more detailed or user-friendly in certain areas. Additionally, some of the more advanced features may require additional plugins or modules, which could result in added complexity or performance overhead. Finally, while Kong does offer a free, open-source version of its platform, some of the more advanced features are only available in the paid Enterprise version, which may be a consideration 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 designed to solve the challenges associated with managing large-scale and complex APIs, which are becoming increasingly common as organizations adopt microservices architectures and cloud-based infrastructure. By providing a centralized platform for managing API traffic, Kong can help organizations improve their APIs' performance, security, and scalability while simplifying the API development, testing, and deployment process. This can result in significant cost savings, increased developer productivity, and improve end-user experiences. In addition to these benefits, Kong API Gateway also supports a wide range of integrations with other tools and platforms, making it a versatile solution for organizations of all sizes and industries. It can support various use cases, from internal API management within an organization to providing APIs for external developers and partners. By streamlining the process of API management and improving API performance and security, Kong API Gateway can help enable faster innovation, improve business agility, and support digital transformation initiatives, ultimately benefiting organizations and users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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UI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong Gateway provides various configuration and change management options saas platform hosted at customer infrastructure.

Kong provides the ability to bring our own custom plugins thereby enhancing community adoption and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :) 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 me in my personal projects to develop applications based out of diverse tech stack. This eases the overhead of maintain domain knowledge and thereby assists in faster iteration on software development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.

Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong offers good traffic control capabilities, including load balancing and request routing. It enables us to efficiently distribute incoming API requests across multiple backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.

We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MRIDUL N.
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Individual contributor
Higher Education
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The best thing about this gateway is that it is fast and has high throughput. I like the mutual TLS authentication feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I once faced the broken admin API dependency issue in the 3. x version, while the 2. x version worked fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it as an open-source API gateway for managing my microservices. I also used it for verifying JWT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.