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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

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15 months

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Krishna S.
KS
Senior Software Engineer
Consulting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Konnect
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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Can have our API deployed and live within a few minutes with dedicated cloud gateway.

Integration with third party application like amazon cognito and okta. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Low transparency of data kong is storing for our APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Prebuilt developer portal allowed us to easily publish APIs to the outside world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

Ease in Handling large volumes of API requests, simple implementation and customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

There is a scope to add custom feature where we can contribute or take advantage of the same, which can be done as per the need of the developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

From the project perspective, it helped in management of APIs with security measures and traffic monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Lots of plugins which is useful

3. Ease of use and setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong documentation needs to be more detailed and their developer portal needs to be more mature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong api gateway efficiently managed our apis by routing, securing and monitoring traffic, reducing manual overhead

This enhances security provides valuable analytics and allow our team to focus on development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jay  K.
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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.Strong Security

2.Extensive Plugin Ecosystem

3.Simplified User Interface

4.Good Performance

5.Good Scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

1.It has Performance Issues

2.Complex Debugging Tools and Techniques

3.Less Documentation available to study in depth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1..It Provides API Traffic Control

2. Provides good security measures

3.It Provides Flexibility and Customization for API Management

4.Good Monitoring and Observability Feature

5. Proves Less costly in Compare to other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pawan S.
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Technology Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It has low latency, easy-to-do setup, and a variety of plugins it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The developer portal needs to be more mature and should provide more functionality to the developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It addresses traffic control, security, and service discovery issues, ensuring efficient API management and high availability. It benefits organizations by providing robust security, scalability, and operational efficiency, enhancing overall API performance and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surbhi S.
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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 Latest

2. Lots of plugins which is useful

3. Ease of use and setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Kong Documentation needs to be more detailed and their Developer portal needs to be more mature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It efficiently manages our APIs by routing, securing, and monitoring traffic, reducing manual overhead.

This enhances security, provides valuable analytics, and allows our team to focus on development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankit B.
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software engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

1.provide variety of plugins

2.ease of use and setup

3.low latency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

there should be a detailed documentation of kong and the developer portal should be more mature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway streamlines API management by efficiently routing, securing, and monitoring traffic, thereby reducing manual effort. This bolsters security, offers valuable analytics, and enables our team to concentrate on development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Computer Software
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

It is a fast and flexible cloud native gateway that offers too many premium services. It has very strict policy about who can access the the data and services that are managed behind it. It's data security is good, only authorised users can access the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

It is very difficult to setup the implementation, if you are a new user,then you will face too many difficulty. It's customer support is supportive but can't solve your all issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is very premium and trusted open source API, It ensures our data security by allowing access to the only authorised users. It maintains high availability and good performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gokul A.
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Associate software engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Product Reviewed: Kong Gateway
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What do you like best about Kong Gateway?

The nicest things about Kong API Gateway, in my opinion, are its excellent performance and extensibility via a robust community of plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

The Kong API Gateway's management and configuration can get complicated for large-scale deployments, which is what I find objectionable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kong API Gateway is a scalable, high-performance platform that streamlines and protects API operations, thereby resolving issues with load balancing, authentication, rate limitation, logging, and monitoring. Users gain from this because it makes their APIs more dependable, secure, and performant, lowers operational complexity, and makes integration and expansion simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allow us to integrate with various IDP integration using azure, okta , aws cognito and many more.

Provide amazing functionalities of plugin and we can also create custom plugin by building lua code.

Provide developer protal functionalities for the developer to onborad api to show them to the outer World.

Good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Gateway?

Documentation is not proper like we debugging takes a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provide functionality of sso that is really amazing to integrate it with third party provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.