Kong API Platform Reviews - Page 21

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

well documented with examples and youtube channels.

well structured and easily to build deveopment environment from examples

deployment and integration is easy and clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

not many pictures/diagramme for understanding deeply the flow and architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong is a great solution for deploying a cloud vendor-agnostic API Gateway. You can deploy it from a container or with the native binary. I am especially fond of the leveraging the Kong Ingress Controller in K8s as I find it to be on the simplest ways to handle both Ingress and Routing with the other Kong feature as frosting on the cake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong's freemium model of open source can be frustrating for some, but in my opinion, it averages out in the end. You either have the internal team members on your roster to support the open-source product at enterprise scale or you leverage their team to support you at enterprise scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Light Weight, Easy to Install & Configure and Super Fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Traceability Features & Access of Logs, RBAC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The infrastructure of Kong is it's the best thing which separates it from others.We can easily customise our business flows and also make the plugins customised and then we can deploy them easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Plugins can be made in multiple languages and some easier path for deployment can be made as it is hard to debug and test them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The UI for configuration is very easy to use and manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Very expensive and lot of learning curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Portabie, scalable and open source option with good community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Sometimes not clear about how to utilise add-ons over standard features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The Kong is very deligate and light weight to use. No very high specifications of your system are used casue generally people might find difficult when their system specifications are low Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Everything is pretty nice, but can improve some in documentation on how to setup initially, and made some nice tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is easy to install on several platforms (k8s, VM) and is very feature-rich.

Several plugins allow me to apply policies to my APIs at a global or granular level, from securing the API, request/response validation to rate limiting to name but a few.

There is a very active community which is great to see, and most plugins if not bundled with the product have been written within the community and you can add these to your Kong install pretty easily. Observability is a key component of Kong and without much trouble, you can generate and display health and traffic level metrics. Kong integrates with all your well known third party monitoring systems e.g. prometheus. grafana and ELK (plus many more - these are just the most common ones) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

As mentioned before Kong API Gateway is easy to install and feature-rich, but I think one of Kong's negative aspects is its documentation. The documentation is not always very clear, often missing information and sometimes I have found the examples/tutorials don't work. Something I think they can improve on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Analytics

Monitoring

Plugins

Developer portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing

As per knowledge i dont have any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It's easy to get started with Kong API Gateway, as there's no high learning curve. You're able to download, install and deploy the first API in a maximum of 10 minutes. I also like the Open Source mentality and the clear vision of where things are going.

In addition, Kong API Gateway provides great flexibility concerning the deployment architecture, since it is independent of a certain platform or architecture. Kong API Gateway can be deployed in a Standalone mode on a variety of Linux machines (Bare metal or Virtual machines), as Ingress Controller to a Kubernetes Cluster or in a hybrid model, separating Control and Data Planes, where the Data Plane nodes can be deployed to any Cloud or even on-Premises. This flexibility differentiates Kong API Gateway and makes it an option in a broad variety of use cases. Furthermore, the Gateway can - depending on the use case - run with a minimal resource footprint and delivers stable and high performance.

One last thing to mention concerning the development philosophy of Kong: Since everything in Kong is an API, the Gateway can be seamlessly integrated, e.g. in existing CI/CD Pipelines for automating the overall API lifecycle, which makes API delivery extremely efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There aren't things I don't like about Kong API Gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.