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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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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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Tushar K.
TK
Platform Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

It need to have better performance for other laguages, it it has for luma Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease of Deployment and Management

API Gateway and Service Mesh Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YR
Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Cyber)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

Kong solved our Authentication problem. We used JWT token plugin of kong for autetication purpose of 3rd party API clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krishna S.
KS
Senior Software Engineer
Consulting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Insomnia
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What do you like best about Kong Insomnia?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong Insomnia?

kong insomnia is not very much scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Directly run test cases with the help of pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jitendra C.
JC
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Nothing for dislike the kong API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API gateway is opensource and it support multiple language. so we are to add multiple services along with security. Kong API gateway also easy to do configuration and installation to our system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satyajit S.
SS
Senior Software Development Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

Faster routing the requests across the microservices and the authentication plugins helps to remove the extra burden on creating separate authentication layer on top of microservies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vibhuti S.
VS
Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I really like Kong API Gateway's scalability, extensibility through plugins, and robust performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I dislike Kong API Gateway's steep learning curve and complex initial setup only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Kong API Gateway solves problems related to API traffic management, security, and scalability. It benefits users by providing efficient traffic handling, robust security features, and seamless integration with other tools, ensuring reliable and high-performance API services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aakash S.
AS
Senior Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

Easy to write on top of the legacy applications, securing your internal apis, route level validation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajaypal G.
AG
SDE II
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Scalablity, flexibility, security, plugins which helps a lot in short and long term in software products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

It provides scalability, flexibility and security and allow to use plugins which makes it great choice to use in product building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erwin B.
EB
Integration Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Stable, powerful, easy to configure, extensible, fast and quality customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

With Kong API Gateway we have a central place for internal and external systems to call a variety of exposed API's. Kong provides security (apikey / OAuth2), access control and the API catalogue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ivan P.
IP
Senior Software Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

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.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

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.

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

HA Routing and security for micro-services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.