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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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Marcelo B.
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API Specialist (Remote)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Konnect
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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

A very powerful orchestrator to manage lots of API products and leveraging the full power of API Gateway, Service Mesh, Kubernetes and other related tools, easily m,anaged from a nice web UI. You can count with Kong support to make sure your API products will be successfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Almost nothing, but the documentation could be a little more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong Konnect allows you to easily manage sophisticated and complex API programs, involving multiple components necessary for modern microservices architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mahendra C.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

very easy process with api gateway and endpoint protection solution also very easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

no need, any everything is good kong api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easily apply proven principles of DevOps and GitOps to bring applications online faster using Aws integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Quick and Easy to start deploying APIs.

Provides different deployment options Hybrid and SaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Lack of monetization feature within the Developer Portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Konnect helped in setting up a full fledged API gateway in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vivek D.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

ease of use; Number of features and customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Performance issues while running the api's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It can solve the bank's Fraud Detection Platform where most of the deveopment is using web API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mostafa A.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong API gateway has a simple manager GUI that facilitates the configuration; it is easy to get started fast using this GUI. Also, plugin support and modularity are big advantages of Kong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Documentation would be better if it contained detailed steps for configuring Postgres.

Also, datastore support is limited to Postgres; it will be better to support other DB like MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Routing of application components in microservices.

Works well with GitOps.

The powerful REST API of Kong helps in automation.

DevPortal is a potential place to help developers in creating their APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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David N.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I believe the community behind Kong is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

When reading the documentation I believe it lacks in depth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it has helped bulding API quickly when compared to other options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vikash G.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Stability and ease of use.

It helped us to improve our API experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

As such nothing, it is working seamless in our applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Authentication and authorisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Deepak S.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

This is vey robust and easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

This is very expencive for small level of company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It generates api in small spam of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Neelam G.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Grow faster and securely with kong trusted api management platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

They do not offer native functionality to generate apis automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It make faster api write up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Khusboo G.
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Flexibility scalability security plugins analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Complexity

Lack of built in api documentation

Limited developer portal feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Security and access control

Scalability

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