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Kong API Platform Suite Overview

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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Kong Inc

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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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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

11%

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Irshad P.
IP
Security Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease of Integration, Ease of Use and Number of features are very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

nothing much, it has all the necessary components for API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it is very good for our API management for retrieving and updating fileds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reliable, feature rich gateway that enable shared responsibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nil, pretty much do all that we asked it to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving shared responsibility between developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sandeep M.
SM
Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Mostly configuring the Internal services and sometime exposing it to public Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Sometime upgrade , would cause issues with config Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Routing , Proxy and authentication & Authorization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
Associate Consultant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The freedom to choose different installation methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There's nothing to dislike it best among the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Making the complete slow efficient flexible scalable meeting our goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

easy to use, nice looking , easy to integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

nothing for now, quite lot of settings to fit with infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

good monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Built on OpenResty, with straightforward Kubernetes resource definition of routes. The documentation was good as well, and there are free plugins and an open source variant of Kong to get you locked in before you realize the need to switch to another provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

They are dropping their support for Alpine-based images, and their Ubuntu base image brings about too large an attack surface. So you have to build Kong yourself, but the Enterprise Gateway product adds closed source modifications so it's impossible to get a secure build. Also, you have to go with enterprise for FIPS, which is reasonable if it wasn't prohibitively priced. They charge for every separate microservice TIMES every environment, including QA or trial environments. Basically, this makes them implicitly discourage companies from decoupling their enterprise application into separate services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reverse proxy with path-based routing. Self-hostable without request or response size or latency restrictions. Extensible for custom logic. Controllable with Kubernetes resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Set of possibilities, full range of characteristics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Price, may be cheaper, taking into account that it is not a market leader Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cybersecurity, DDOS, throtling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
IO
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease of Use and Ease of Implementation and competitive price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Support documentation can be improved for end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
UC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

As a part of SRE, I love its built in Monitoring and Logging. Its is easy to configure as it is a declarative configuration and automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

A lot of enterprise features are locked behind the Paid version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Set up ELK Stack for monitoring traffic and debugging the API traffic flows using using Admin API, logs and tracing tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rutwik B.
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System Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Easy to use , many features and excellent documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Pricing is bit higher compared to other products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.