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Kong API Gateway: Feature Rich, Secure and Versatile option for Modern Micro Services
What do you like best about the product?
Best features we liked about this gateway
-Feature-rich and easy integration with Microservices application, dockerized components
- Highly Scalable for growing business needs
- Versatile security features.
-Feature-rich and easy integration with Microservices application, dockerized components
- Highly Scalable for growing business needs
- Versatile security features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the downsides of this gateway
- Considerable learning curve and adoption.
- Plugins are available and custom plugin development is not very flexible
- Considerable learning curve and adoption.
- Plugins are available and custom plugin development is not very flexible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped us decouple of microservices architecture vai API design and allowed us to scale at individual component levels. Also created to our scalability needs at each component level with flexibility for configuring security options. We now serve around 17 million customers daily on new applications driven by Kong Gateway.
Simple to use and configure, works great and very resilient.
What do you like best about the product?
Documentation and user friendly interface and support when paying customer
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of some features like service mesh where Istio is free and as good product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This resolved the complexity of handling and creating host addresses for all APIs that we are currently hosting. The gateway is the way to go to handle all different traffic coming in and out of the K8 cluster.
Excellent API Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Kong API is an excellent API Gateway service that allows for multi-node scaling It also grants low-level access to traffic control and monitoring of inbound and outbound traffic
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong API has been great There have been issues with support management and pricing, but these issues are minor
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Scaling. Traffic Monitoring
Light, fast Api management
What do you like best about the product?
Easily deployable, lightweight. Simplest way to handle and manage api gateways
What do you dislike about the product?
Slightly expensive for small team, rest all is decent about kong
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Have few APIs in to host and manage as part of my organization, makes my task easier.
Kong Admin API was very helpful and Kong Manager made things easy.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about kong API is it can run on Kubernetes. It helped us load balance the users and logging. We were just testing. We will Increase its use in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now everything is going great. It would be helpful if the documentation also includes screenshots or expected output and if kong starts certification that would be helpful in the future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We developed a traveling application with API on the backend and React on the frontend. We used kong as testing and found it helpful in load balancing and logging.
Helped me make the development process a lot simpler
What do you like best about the product?
It provides the least amount of latency and is highly reliable. It's quite flexible and powerful. Setting up was pretty straight forward as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It lacks community support. It needs to gain popularity so that ideas can be exhanged in a better manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me manage the microsrvices better. It made the development process a lot simpler for the microservices.
Kong gateway one stop for all your API Management
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of kong gateway is the centralised management of all the API and it can be managed on multiple clouds and onprem. The best part is the hybrid deployment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just started exploring. Will have to get there still.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scaling micro services and managing APIs
Experience of KONG API
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use and we can scale the service as per the requirement also it is the most secured one for microservices and distributed architectures. Great performance too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing but the credentials are provided by the admin as we customers can't change them, and customer care support needs to improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problems of microservice like load balancing, monitoring each microservice, fault tolerance and some other features also , need to explore other things too, as the requirement comes or need to see other things as of now as mentioned above I currently using.
Good balance loading, interesting features. Not rly good monitoring with Instana
What do you like best about the product?
The key features are nice, load balancing and gateway itself and the flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monitoring with Instana not yet available straightaway.
We setup a OpenTelemetry collector that gets data from Zipkin for this.
We setup a OpenTelemetry collector that gets data from Zipkin for this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We replaced all the microgateways and Kong is much more stable and flexible
Perfect gateway solution
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setup and use
Learning curve
Open source
Learning curve
Open source
What do you dislike about the product?
Extensibility and language support for writing new plugins
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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