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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?

Kong API's helps build efficient and distributed architectures which are ready to be scaled. Kong servers work as a bridge between the client and the API. Whenever a request is made, Kong will install particular extentions which eventually enhance the API performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Although Kong works very smoothly it sometimes is very slow to work with and takes time to process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API helped with making a low maintenance website that could takle global load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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There are some features that i would like to mention:

1. Highly scalable

2. Flexible

3. Easy to setup and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

1.Installing plugins is hard sometimes.

2. Documentation can be improved! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Working with multiple projects is easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

provides a clean interface for clients to interact with, making your system easier to use and therefore more attractive in a competitive marketplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

With the help of this we create a clean interface for clients to interact with which make our system easier to use and more attractive in a competitive marketplace.

It become core part of our business which help us to improve in efficient way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It help us to interact with client and this API gateway provide us the platform that acts as middleware between compute clients and the API-centric applications. We can also add plugin to extend the capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Easy to use and intuitive workflow of User Interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Pricing can be reduced for individuals can be reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Used it during one of the conferences I attended to check out the product. Didn't got chance to use it in live project, so not sure about benefits other than the nice UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I like the Kong API. I think it is that LEGO piece that can fit anywhere. It is super light and can be deployed quickly. It provides efficient results even while it is super simple to use. My staff love using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Due to its lightweight nature, i think some of the functionality is quite crude. It can be refined. I think with AI and other tools that are available, it can be made robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Load balancing, monitoring, authentication, authorization and automation. these are just the beginning. I think there is more potential of it being deployed in several other areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API is highly scalable and flexible. It has a great plugin infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The plugins in kong api need to be written in LUA and i faced a problem because it's not a common programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kong API Gateway:

It's easy to use and is a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The service helpec us boost our performance by delivering a low maintainance API management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

All features are very interesting and from those, I liked the most with K8 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Although all features are interesting, I do not quite prefer monitoring processes and it might need to expand to provide more plug-ins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can decentralize applications/services and it is the most beneficial for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Very complete API management. The plugins are amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong logs integration with ELK needs some improvement. Currently no out-of-the-box solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong Gateway supports hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure, and includes a Kubernetes-native ingress solution and support for declarative configuration management. There is sub-millisecond processing latency to support thousands of transactions per second. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The key features are nice, load balancing and gateway itself and the flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Monitoring with Instana not yet available straightaway.

We setup a OpenTelemetry collector that gets data from Zipkin for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We replaced all the microgateways and Kong is much more stable and flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong api gateway and platform is one of the finest middleware I have seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

No Disklikes , It is easy and simple to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It solving the security and management problems as another api gateways doesn't provide in such better way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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