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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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Shishir K.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong provide advance features, It works well in modern IT landscape in exposing microservice based apps & it can be scaled horizontally. It has Greater adoption and allows much better customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong currently provides lower Transformation support as compared to other Platforms and it also has Higher cost for implementing the Enterprise version. It also has moderate complexity while installing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using Kong API platforms, the deployments and API life cycle management are more Agile and easier to implement. In terms of performance, it works very well thus allows ease of mind Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hi Shishir -- thanks so much for your review. Great to hear that you've found Kong API Gateway to be customizable and scalable and that you've seen good performance and agile deployments and lifecycle management -- these are all hallmarks of our product that we've worked hard to develop! I hear your feedback about the installation complexity and would love learn more about the transformation support in comparison to other platforms, if you're open to sharing more. Thanks again for your feedback and for being a Kong customer!

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Its powerful and comprehensive features on API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

There are not enough online resources for the complicated scenario-based demo or troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Kong API as an ingress controller with the Kubernetes platform and a tool for enterprise-level API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hi Chen -- thank you so much for your review! I've included below a link to our Kong Docs, but if you have other questions, please visit https://support.konghq.com/support/s/ to contact our support team. We're so glad you like our APIM features and to have you as a Kong customer!

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Easy to use on the user interface and panel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Customization on interface is required with skill Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Algie delivery on updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

API Gateway is a simple, secure, fast and next-generation API which provides ultra-low latency, high throuput,Dynamic scalability, radically extensible and CI/CD integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API is great in many aspects since recently I started using and testing it couldn't find many flaws and those flaws I have found and easily configurable and managable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have been using Kong API for low latency, high throughput, Architectural Freedom (This is just amazing) and Kubernetes Native API Management which has amazing benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The agnostic configuring capability and plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Language limitations, apart from that cant pin on any downside Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To solve the issue of cloud-native apps by enabling reliable and dependable connectivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Ease of setup and use

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What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Extensibility and language support for writing new plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Throttling

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I like the RESTfulness and commitment to industry best practices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The environment configuration on Windows is always a challenge but I'm not sure if that is something Kong can control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving the hiring gap problem mostly. It has been tough trying to find qualified developers to build out solutions so we are relying on external tools heavily now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is helpful for API Sandbox implementation as it provides a compact and lightweight solution for customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The Key management and developer portal support needs improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are helping customers set up the API Gateway for a quick and easy API first approach implementation. This is helping customers to reduce the GTM strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The performance of the gateway and the ease at which you can configure routes and services - everything can be done via an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The API marketplace in the developer portal needs more work to make it truly world class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ability to standardise and secure access to services via the gateway is the core value add it provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Flexibility, you can do your things with the portal or API, a lot of plugins to fit all reguirments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

after some time it's hard to maintain all your routes, it's should also logic connected to the developer portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

expose our services via kong + authentication and rate limit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Gateway
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Hi there -- thanks for your feedback! Flexibility is one of our top product priorities, so very glad to hear that it's something you like best too. Completely understand that the routes can become complicated and hard to maintain as that's a challenge we hear frequently when lots of connections are involved. Thank you again for your review -- we're so happy to have you as a Kong customer!

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