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

I like the available support and features currently they are offering, one of the best things I like is the available plugins and the option to create your plugin so technically you are not missing anything and you have complete control to API.

The data transformation feature is also very useful and gives you the flexibility to connect/use any type of data source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Lack of training and industry-standard examples are missing or difficult to navigate. You can't use plugins in the free version. Tooling is missing, I think Kong should launch Kong Developer Studio or similar kind of IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kong API Gateway:

Worth to try Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API mashup is one of my use cases, where I can call multiple APIs within one API and achieve process and behaviour enrichment. Data transformation feature plugin availability is a very nice feature to achieve my goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas B.
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Kafka, Java, Spring Boot Microservice & AWS Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Mesh
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What do you like best about Kong Mesh?

It is easy to understand. It is secure and procide good performance via load balancer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Mesh?

Service mesh is always complex to implement in start. There can be more examples of service mesh in official documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Implemented it to setup communication among services. Kong mesh provides good performance and better security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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AI
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Konnect
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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Very clean, simple interface, easy to spin up the API via service version, publish to the portal with swagger and can install runtime in your cloud account or on premises! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Not so easy to ascertain the gateway address in UI, and the RBAC is a bit confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

service oriented architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

The performances of tool is very good.

Its check all the parameters of interfaces like security,reliability,functionality etc.

Its able to test the endpoints also.

It is cross platform framework which is very cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

Its not complete free.

Unnecessary so much plugins are there which is very confusing some time.

Postman is ease to use as compare to this framework.

Sometimes cookies management is difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its help to test the GraphQl code.

Its help to connect with BI tools.

It is ensuring while testing no data loss.

Able to monitor all the activities which is happening in pipeline.

Automation of mapping the data to destination schema 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?

The performance is great and it support wild range of platform from POSIX installation to Docker and K8S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

It will be more appreciated if can streamline the plugin lifecycle and putting resource to encourage community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One of the target candidate to replace our legacy APIM solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When we first decided to procure the Kong Enterprise Gateway, one of the main selling points was the extensive library of plugins that were available and allowed for extending the base functionality of the gateway in various useful ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

This is not a viable alternative to Informatica, so the overall features are limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Make the API readily available in a very short time which, compared to other solutions, would take longer to finish and ultimately delay the production depliyment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun K.
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Sr Devops Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I liked kong for high-availability clusters and includes an extensive range of plugins to address cross-cutting concerns, including authentication, security, rate limiting, throttling, transformations, analytics and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong Console User Interface is not that much great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralized management of APIs specifcially when it goes via egress 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?

It's easy to use and provides me a lot of options to configure and secure my api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Web ui could be better, yo needs more options with more options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Securing and limiting access to my k8s applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge  P.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Its app ecosystem enables standardization for authentication across organization applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Documentation could be improved to flatten newcomers learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Authentication and authorization can be easily standardize thereby offloading a great deal of operational complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway is very easy to setup, configure and customise. It has a great community support as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Nothing specific as such. But logging features can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralized Authentication, Service Discovery, Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.