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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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Gaurav S.
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Full Stack Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

I like best part of Kong API Gateway is its high performance and versatility, making it exceptionally well-suited for Cloud Native and DevOps-oriented architectures. And also best part is its open-source nature which will support for various deployment modes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

I dislike main thing about Kong API Gateway is it's absence of an Analytics & Monitoring. Also for enterprise version licensing model is complex. 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 helpful for us in streamlining the process by efficiently handling access control, security, and monitoring of our in-house APIs.

Its scalability features enables us to handle large API traffic volumes, which ensures optimal performance of our api services. It's load balancing capabilities contribute to our improved system scalability and resilience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Data Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Flexibility, scalability, security ,builtin analytics and monitoring capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Complexity and limited developer portal features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralized Api management, extensibility and plug-in ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit B.
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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?

Kong API gateway has delivers great performance along with all the core desired features, the documentation is awesome along with great community + customer support. Its easy to integrate and use across environments.

Its easy to implement in a distributed microservice setup. It scales well with high frequency usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Open source issue prioritization can be made even better in collaboration with the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Addresses cross cutting concerns across the microservices wrt API management, tools like insomnia provide a great expereince for API design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fullstack Dev
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

the intuitive way to register apps and routes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

it does not handle good the connections to the databse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

authorization and authentication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
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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?

Its great option to use kong when the requirement is to integrate apis which is just pass through which act as a proxy api. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Orchestraction capability is quite difficult to integrate apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its ui based integration which acts as a proxy in which no orchestarion is required and its very fastest way to develop such apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saumil A.
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Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Best features like security and srvice discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

More integeration with Azure and AWS required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Better control and service discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron R.
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DevSecOps Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

Kong is a highpowered and highly customizeable Nginx service which has been given a lot of attention when it was being created. Kong has some of the best documentation of any application I've ever deployed. Kong also offers lots of options when it comes to configuration, setting up configurations is super easily with the provided DecK tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Kong is just an application designed to get you to pay for the advanced featues. Authentication plugins should not be a paid for premium feature and should be available for all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microservices and endpoint management when done through Nginx raw configurations. Having simple configurations wich allow you to deploy services saves many headaches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

-->High performance and scalability

-->Flexibility and ease of use

-->Extensibility with plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

Security configuration complexity

Management overhead for multiple Gateways Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Centralized API Security

Improved Visibility and Monitoring

Flexibility for Different Deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek G.
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Mern Stack developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong API Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong API Gateway?

The great aspect approximately Kong API Gateway which I like is its robust and characteristic-rich nature. It presents a centralized platform for handling APIs and microservices. Apart from it Kong API gives diverse protection features to protect your APIs and make sure the security and integrity of your API surroundings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong API Gateway?

The thing I dislike about Kong API Gateway is predicated on external services, consisting of databases, caching systems, and load balancers. If any of those dependencies revel in troubles or downtime, it may impact the availability and functionality of the gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The most Important issue that Kong API gateway fixing for me is that it have a big network that you could use to grow. It's open supply making itself a huge network. Scaling plays a primary position as we want to it while visitors is excessive or when the community is congested Kong is the solution for this use it, if we're facing trouble with scalling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush C.
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Core Member
Computer Software
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Mesh
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What do you like best about Kong Mesh?

I like how Envoy and Kuma, two open-source projects that are widely used in the service mesh industry, are included in Kong Mesh. For Kubernetes and VMs in any cloud or environment, Kong Mesh offers corporate functionality and support. Additionally, Kong Enterprise interacts seamlessly with it, providing a full-stack connection platform for all of my services and APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Mesh?

There isn't much wrong with Kong Mesh, but I'd like to see more tutorials and instructions on how to use it well in various situations and use cases. The GUI interface, in my opinion, could benefit from more customization and filtering choices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To control the connectivity and security of my microservices architecture, I use Kong Mesh. Using Kong Mesh has provided me with a number of advantages, including:

- Better communication and service discovery between various zones and clusters

- Integration with third-party CAs and mTLS encryption for improved security

- Better performance and dependability thanks to traffic management measures

- Improved visibility and troubleshooting using metrics and observability charts

- Declarative configuration and CI/CD integration for quicker and simpler deployment and configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.