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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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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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4 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

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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.
RB
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.

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

In my view, the standout feature of the Kong gateway is the simplicity of setting up its data planes, especially with Docker compatibility, making it user-friendly.

Additionally, I love the Kong's custom plugin feature, which allows me to enhance API capabilities according to my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I believe that the Kong API gateway lacks certain features, such as monetization options in the developer portal, which could provide additional benefits for organization

utilizing the portal for API sales. Additionally, I think there should be limits on the number of applications developers can create from the developer portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Kong API gateway effectively addresses several issues, including:

1. Enabling the addition of headers to my/client request payloads before forwarding them to the upstream, thanks to the request transformer plugin.

2. Safeguarding my service from DDOS attacks through rate-limiting plugins.

3. Facilitating response caching via the Response Cache plugin, thereby reducing response times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is easy understanding and easy to implement in any kind of application and more secured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Nothing more to complaint about Kong API Gateway, but some error message are not helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automatically discovers and routes API requests to the correct services. centralize control for over all API and Reduce complexity in service to service communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharat  W.
BW
Seiner software engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

High Performance and Scalability

Extensive Plugin Architecture

Comprehensive API Management

Strong Security Features

Service Mesh Integration

Active Community and Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Complexity of Advanced Features

Steep Learning Curve for Custom Plugins

Occasional Gaps in Documentation

High Cost of Enterprise Edition

Potential for Configuration Challenges Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

API Management

Problem: Complex and time-consuming management of multiple APIs.

Benefit: Streamlines and automates API management, reducing manual workload.

Security

Problem: Ensuring API security against unauthorized access and threats.

Benefit: Enhances security with features like OAuth2, JWT, IP whitelisting, and data encryption.

Scalability

Problem: Handling high volumes of API requests without performance issues.

Benefit: High-performance architecture ensures scalability and low latency.

Extensibility

Problem: Difficulty in customizing API functionality.

Benefit: Extensive plugin architecture allows for tailored solutions and enhanced functionality.

Service Mesh Integration

Problem: Complex integration of APIs within microservices environments.

Benefit: Seamless compatibility with service mesh architectures and container orchestration platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant S.
PS
Software Developer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Kong API Gateway is build to be a highly extensible piece of software. It is customizable and integrated with a robust pluin architecture. Developers can write their plugins for custom logic using, among other popular languages like Lua,JavaScript and Go. This will help further shape the gateway as needed and be fully integrated into their already existing infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

User setup is complex, and there is a steep learning curve for Kong. New users cannot set it up quickly because the setup is somehow complicated as some users may find the components within it hard to understand. Thus, large scale deployements require much time and expertise, leading to the delay if its implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway resolves issues like API management, controlling traffic, security and monitoring. Kon centralizes the control of API Traffic, carrying it at a root cause level that is guaranteed to scale with advanced security features, such as authentication and rate limits, improving performance via load balancing. This can translate into easier API management, increased reliability, and reduced times in deploying new services, hence a benifit to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Low Latency

2. Customer Support is Good

3. Custom Plugin Functionality using Lua

4. Sass Product is also available

5. Kong academy is for new learners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

1. Dev portal is not really mature

2.Documentation is not proper

3. Multi Portal support in single org in Konnect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Security, Like there is lot of plugins avalible in kong for example. Key auth, open id connect, Jwt and many more.

2. API Management, there is lot of functionality like rate limiting, load balancing, Authorization using ACL plugin and routing.

3. Monitoring and Logging

4. Dev portal for the developers, we can easily publish the api product and expose the service for new developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DEVANSHU S.
DS
Technical Head
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

As a computer science student and an upcoming intern, my experience with Kong API Gateway has been quite enlightening. Navigating the complexities of modern application development, particularly in the world of APIs and microservices, Kong has proven to be a robust tool that helps between theoretical knowledge and practical application.

The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

While Kong offers a free open-source version, some advanced features are only available in the paid versions. This is a limitaction for me as I cant utilise them. Also I have somtimes noticed that CPU usage also spikes abnormally when utilising Kong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have utilised to solve routing requests quite efficiently using Kong. Furthermore it gives a decent service in term of monitoring and logging which earlier had to be configured explicitly for my application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

João E.
JE
Software Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

I love using the Kong API Gateway because it allows us to make secure connections and allows us to protect the different applications we use against known bad actors attacks like DDoS. It also allow us to configure in a seamless way, different consumers to allows service consumption and usage of different access points accross out cloud services. Another great advantage is that the Kong API Gateway allow us to program different applicatins that make a lot of the parameters used in different plugins configurable on demand, which means that by simply using its REST API we can configure different profile and create consumers as any user wants to define it. All in all, the Kong gateway allow us to configure different users as consumers, it allow us to configure multiple different protocol sorts and payloads, it has a very complete way of doing rerouting and port forwarding, it makes it easy to redirect requests and it is also great that we can also make different API gateways configurable via Kong KONNECT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

I am yet to find out something that I dislike about the Kong Gateway. It is a very robust gateway that never failed. Having sais that, if I am force to say something that still feels different when interpreting logs is the usage of LUA scripts, to which not many people have experience working with, but that on its own has never been an actual issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Is helping us to solve for the most part, security and rerouting issues. It also allows us to configure user profiles on demand via a custom application we have created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong's rich plugin ecosystem is often highlighted as a major strength. It offers a wide range of plugins for authentication, rate limiting, logging, security, transformations, and more. This flexibility allows you to customize and extend the functionality of your API gateway according to your specific needs.

Scalability: Kong is designed to be highly scalable, making it suitable for handling a large volume of API traffic. Its architecture supports horizontal scaling, enabling you to distribute the load across multiple instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Limited GUI Interface: Kong primarily relies on a RESTful API for configuration. While there are community-contributed UIs, the official graphical user interface (GUI) may not be as feature-rich. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps API rate limiting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.