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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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Kong Inc
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2017
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693 employees on LinkedIn®
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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 Financial Services
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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?

Easy to operate and maintain.

Automation inbuilt to have effective CI/CD

Best fit for multi cloud strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Faster delivery of new features.

Better integration with APM products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Digital transformation to effectively achieve mobile and cloud first strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Love the pluggable architecture and API driven config. The never modes of operation such as DP/CP or DBLess are a big plus as well. There is a large community of users and it has really great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Github issues lately pile up and have not been treated as a priority to investigate within the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solid API Gateway solution for on prem and multi cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Gateway

Hi there -- thanks for your review! We are very proud of our flexible configuration, so glad to hear you love it too -- along with our amazing Kong community! And thank you for surfacing the issues with Github -- we are looking into them but can always do more to solve issues that are impacting our customers. Thanks again for your feedback and thanks for using Kong!

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Variety of resources to help you navigate various platforms to apply to your brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I haven't used it to discover any dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I don't have any problems as of yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

User friendly good ui. Good structure and covers good amount of use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Limiting of the concurrent requests. Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Testing more in real time scenario Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nayan S.
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Software Engineer
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Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

In addition to authenticating requests and enforcing security standards, the API Gateway may also load balance across backend services. In this way, Kong is a cost-effective solution. The system comes with hundreds of built-in plugins, but new plugins may also be written to meet specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

To create a custom plugin, Lua knowledge is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One of our projects required an API gateway to act as a gatekeeper, and we were in the process of creating a distributed architecture. Kong Konnect offers a wide range of features, so that's what we go with. Also, this API gateway helps to simplify their client and server code by reducing the number of variables. Moreover, this programme is extensible via plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Quick process installation and configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Lack of a user interface for documentation of developer portal API exposure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Internal and external API exposition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

speed, performance, plugin configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Logging and Monitoring of gateway,soap to rest conversion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reverse proxy, request throttling,api security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Ease of configuration

Support is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

It gets a bit tedious at first to grasp documentation but after that, its easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Metered API billing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Gateway

Hi there -- thanks for leaving your feedback and we're so happy to hear you've had a good experience with our support team! Completely understand that documentation is not the most fun to wade through, but glad it's been easy after that. Thanks again for your review and for being a Kong user!

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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The security, confidence and practicality that Kong gives me when managing my APIs in a simple and efficient way is a great point in its favor that this application has, its interface has a fairly intuitive design which allows me to navigate through everything the system without major problem, and the fact that it is also a responsive application is of great help to me to access the information from my mobile phone without major problems, the main dashboard shows me in a fairly summarized way all the data I need to perform my activities in a much simpler and more efficient way, in terms of performance the application is quite good, its customer service team provides a fairly complete service and in a fairly fast way, solving in a short period of time any possible error that could be presented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Being objective, there is nothing I can complain about Kong, it seems to me that everything works perfectly and without any inconvenience, now, what one I would suggest is that they change the interface design for one a little more modern, which I think could add more functionality to the entire application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The fact that it allows me to manage all my APIs from the same platform in a safe, fast and practical way is something of great help to simplify my application development enormously, another point that they have in their favor is that in terms of performance everything works perfectly and without any additional inconvenience, in short it has turned out to be a very good option for all of us. 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?

Kong is a company that self-manages the progress and possibilities of the result for other companies, has a well-consolidated and justified API design, has tools for the protection of multiple threats and malicious viruses for our company, we have a communications panel, Prudent access control and formidable information traffic control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

We do not have system samples for long periods of time to test the software, nor less free versions that do not make your strategy system accessible to the client, it is considered that more information would be missing from the software and, therefore, would generate more confidence, and finally it has a slow interface but despite this well formulated and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kong API Gateway:

Is one of the best companies with client self-management software, sophisticated and even connects all its microservices with more efficient api platforms for greater ease of use, the little information it contains is almost impossible, as it contains several interesting points . of the company are not visible until consulting the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The design of our company is mainly for large companies, we work with implementations in the cloud, saas and web, which makes it easy for us to create, implement and manage large amounts of APIs in a single self-management platform for the Progress of our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.