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Kong API Platform Suite Overview

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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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Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Light and fast for almost all APIs"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I like the Kong API. I think it is that LEGO piece that can fit anywhere. It is super light and can be deployed quickly. It provides efficient results even while it is super simple to use. My staff love using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Due to its lightweight nature, i think some of the functionality is quite crude. It can be refined. I think with AI and other tools that are available, it can be made robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RP
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An excellent service"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API is highly scalable and flexible. It has a great plugin infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The plugins in kong api need to be written in LUA and i faced a problem because it's not a common programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
IC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It is very well presented API"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

All features are very interesting and from those, I liked the most with K8 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Although all features are interesting, I do not quite prefer monitoring processes and it might need to expand to provide more plug-ins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikhil D.
ND
Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"High performance, scalable and low-maintenance API"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Very complete API management. The plugins are amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong logs integration with ELK needs some improvement. Currently no out-of-the-box solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good balance loading, interesting features. Not rly good monitoring with Instana"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The key features are nice, load balancing and gateway itself and the flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Monitoring with Instana not yet available straightaway.

We setup a OpenTelemetry collector that gets data from Zipkin for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
UB
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"This is one the best API gateway and platform i ever used. It was joyful to use it"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong api gateway and platform is one of the finest middleware I have seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

No Disklikes , It is easy and simple to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
AT
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Finest API management"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

API management - as we are heavily making use of it for api management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing as of now as I have not come across any difficulty Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shishir K.
SK
Deputy Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Highly Flexible API Gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong provide advance features, It works well in modern IT landscape in exposing microservice based apps & it can be scaled horizontally. It has Greater adoption and allows much better customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong currently provides lower Transformation support as compared to other Platforms and it also has Higher cost for implementing the Enterprise version. It also has moderate complexity while installing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Platform
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Hi Shishir -- thanks so much for your review. Great to hear that you've found Kong API Gateway to be customizable and scalable and that you've seen good performance and agile deployments and lifecycle management -- these are all hallmarks of our product that we've worked hard to develop! I hear your feedback about the installation complexity and would love learn more about the transformation support in comparison to other platforms, if you're open to sharing more. Thanks again for your feedback and for being a Kong customer!

CC
Technical lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A powerful product of API gateway"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Its powerful and comprehensive features on API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There are not enough online resources for the complicated scenario-based demo or troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Taylor Page of Kong API Platform
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Hi Chen -- thank you so much for your review! I've included below a link to our Kong Docs, but if you have other questions, please visit https://support.konghq.com/support/s/ to contact our support team. We're so glad you like our APIM features and to have you as a Kong customer!

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Verified User in Banking
CB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Begineer"
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to use on the user interface and panel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Customization on interface is required with skill Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

11%

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