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Create product and potential future market leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Low latency
2. Lots of plugins which is useful
3. Ease of use and setup
2. Lots of plugins which is useful
3. Ease of use and setup
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong documentation needs to be more detailed and their developer portal needs to be more mature
What problems is the product 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
This enhances security provides valuable analytics and allow our team to focus on development
Kong :Future of Api Management
What do you like best about the product?
1.Strong Security
2.Extensive Plugin Ecosystem
3.Simplified User Interface
4.Good Performance
5.Good Scalability
2.Extensive Plugin Ecosystem
3.Simplified User Interface
4.Good Performance
5.Good Scalability
What do you dislike about the product?
1.It has Performance Issues
2.Complex Debugging Tools and Techniques
3.Less Documentation available to study in depth.
2.Complex Debugging Tools and Techniques
3.Less Documentation available to study in depth.
What problems is the product 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.
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.
product review
What do you like best about the product?
Scalablity, flexibility, security, plugins which helps a lot in short and long term in software products.
What do you dislike about the product?
lack of proper documentation which easily can be understood. Bit complex and difficult to learn for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides scalability, flexibility and security and allow to use plugins which makes it great choice to use in product building.
Product Review
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility scalability security plugins analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity
Lack of built in api documentation
Limited developer portal feature
Lack of built in api documentation
Limited developer portal feature
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and access control
Scalability
Integration and interoperability
Scalability
Integration and interoperability
Verry good peace of software
What do you like best about the product?
Efficient handling of large volumes of traffic.
Wide range of plugins for customization.
Easy to scale horizontally to meet demand.
Comprehensive security features to protect APIs.
Free to use with a strong community backing.
we use the free version for our main product
Wide range of plugins for customization.
Easy to scale horizontally to meet demand.
Comprehensive security features to protect APIs.
Free to use with a strong community backing.
we use the free version for our main product
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be complex for beginners to set up and configure.
May require significant resources for high-traffic scenarios.
Some advanced features and support are only available in the paid enterprise version.
May require significant resources for high-traffic scenarios.
Some advanced features and support are only available in the paid enterprise version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong serve us as a ingress controller with user authentication and authorization and a gateway.
Product review
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, scalability, security ,builtin analytics and monitoring capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity and limited developer portal features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Centralized Api management, extensibility and plug-in ecosystem.
Engineering Manager
What do you like best about the product?
Stability and ease of use.
It helped us to improve our API experience
It helped us to improve our API experience
What do you dislike about the product?
As such nothing, it is working seamless in our applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Authentication and authorisation
Pioneering Product on Track to Become Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Huge range of plugins which are useful.
2. Low latetency
3. Easy to setup.
4.Easy to use.
5. Easy to integrate with other platform.
2. Low latetency
3. Easy to setup.
4.Easy to use.
5. Easy to integrate with other platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Debveloper portal should be more mature.
2. Kong Documentation should be imroved and more detailed.
2. Kong Documentation should be imroved and more detailed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong API gateway helps us to manage our APIs by securing, routing and monitoring trafic which helps us to reduce manual overhead which in return helps in enhancing security, provide us with valuable analytics and allows us to focus on our development.
From Product Creation to Future Market Dominance
What do you like best about the product?
High performance and scalability, even under heavy traffic.
Flexible plugin architecture that allows easy customization and extension.
Strong security features, including authentication, rate limiting, and traffic control.
Native service mesh compatibility, enabling seamless integration with modern architectures.
Wide range of built-in and community plugins that simplify data transformation and API operations.
Simple setup and user-friendly configuration, making onboarding and deployment very smooth.
Flexible plugin architecture that allows easy customization and extension.
Strong security features, including authentication, rate limiting, and traffic control.
Native service mesh compatibility, enabling seamless integration with modern architectures.
Wide range of built-in and community plugins that simplify data transformation and API operations.
Simple setup and user-friendly configuration, making onboarding and deployment very smooth.
What do you dislike about the product?
More detailed and example-rich documentation to help developers understand advanced configurations and edge cases.
Improved debugging and troubleshooting tools, especially around plugin errors, request tracing, and performance bottlenecks.
Enhanced UI visibility in Kong Manager for monitoring, logs, and analytics.
Simplified configuration for complex deployments, such as hybrid mode or multi-cluster setups
Improved debugging and troubleshooting tools, especially around plugin errors, request tracing, and performance bottlenecks.
Enhanced UI visibility in Kong Manager for monitoring, logs, and analytics.
Simplified configuration for complex deployments, such as hybrid mode or multi-cluster setups
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Traffic Management
Security
Extensibility and Customization
Observability and Monitoring
Security
Extensibility and Customization
Observability and Monitoring
Develop a Product and Pinpoint a Prospective Future Market Leader
What do you like best about the product?
1.Decentralized & High-Performance Architecture
2.Service Mesh Support (Kuma/Envoy Integration)
3.Powerful Declarative Configuration (GitOps-Friendly)
2.Service Mesh Support (Kuma/Envoy Integration)
3.Powerful Declarative Configuration (GitOps-Friendly)
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Kong has many plugins, some community plugins lack maintenance, updates, and version compatibility.
A more standardized, validated plugin ecosystem would help developers.
A more standardized, validated plugin ecosystem would help developers.
What problems is the product 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.
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