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1. High Performance and Scalability
2. Extensibility with Plugins
3. Ease of Deployment and Management
4. Ease of Monitoring and Analytics: Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It need to have better performance for other laguages, it it has for luma Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's a cloud agnostic API Gateway. For a multi-cloud enviornment i.e. where API endpoints can be hosted in multiple cloud providers like AWS or Azure, Kong can be used without dependency on a specific cloud provider.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Admin GUI cannot be used in the YAML config format, it's only possible if the PostGres DB is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am using insomnia in my current project so have my workflow i.e kong deplyment.
I have created collection and multiple test cases in insomnia and then connect it with git to pass all the test cases and it work smoothly I realy like this functionality of insomnia.
We can easily implemen multiple test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
kong insomnia is not very much scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kong API gateway is good and opensource tool and also it is very lightweight as compare to another API gateway. It is also easy to install and also support the multiple languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing for dislike the kong API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to configure services and routes and plugins in kong and several security plugins makes development handy.
Different flavours of deployment with kong like CP DP Model , Kong mesh and Kong Konnect and standalone on prem deployment.
Lightening fast routing traffic and plugin execution makes it best in performance.
Several policies with kong mesh makes the development handy.
Easy to integrate with the microservices and easy to implement custom plguins . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Creating Custom Plugins using lua ,
forces to learn new technology,
Although kong has flexibility to integrate with GO and JS ,
Still I feel the performance is not similar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like Kong API Gateway's scalability, extensibility through plugins, and robust performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike Kong API Gateway's steep learning curve and complex initial setup only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very light weighted, simple to integrate with various upstram application. The best feature is the out of the box plugins, i love them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
May be the lengthy process of writing customised plugin. This could be handled in a more simple way, like other gateway platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalablity, flexibility, security, plugins which helps a lot in short and long term in software products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
lack of proper documentation which easily can be understood. Bit complex and difficult to learn for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stable, powerful, easy to configure, extensible, fast and quality customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Product development removes features we're using, like vitals (fine grained metrics), developer portal, insomnia free on-premise git sync. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Portabie, scalable and open source with easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. We have been using it for a year without any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Kong API documentation is quite difficult to understand and more user friendly tutorials or documentation could be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.