We had worked for a client from the travel industry who wanted to propose an API manager. They had built microservices on Java and another integration tool. They wanted to apply policies, register their APIs in the API manager, and enforce policies and plugins, like client ID, client secret, throttling, rate limiting, and protocol transformation. The client wanted to apply these things to their APIs.
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The solution provides protocol transformation and allows each client to have a specific UI experience
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise.
Kong Enterprise allows a lot of customizations that provide a specific UI experience for each client.
What needs improvement?
The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Kong Enterprise for the past six to eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not seen any stability issues so far with Kong Enterprise. None of our customers have reported any issues with the solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Kong Enterprise is a scalable solution.
How was the initial setup?
No setup is required for Kong Enterprise because it has a complete cloud setup. You pay for a license, get credentials, and start registering your API and applying policies. It's completely cloud-based. We also have some open-source options where you set up the API manager on your Kubernetes clusters or dockers and register your API in the on-prem Kong API manager.
What other advice do I have?
The solution requires maintenance, but I haven’t heard of any maintenance challenges so far.
A user's decision to choose Kong Enterprise or MuleSoft varies from use case to use case. Users should do a detailed technical assessment before choosing Kong Enterprise, MuleSoft API manager, or any other API manager tools available in the market.
Overall, I rate Kong Enterprise an eight out of ten.
Best gateway in the market
What do you like best about the product?
Lightweight with low cost on infrastructure to run.
Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin
Support multi-cloud deployment and integration
Easy to customize the developer portal
Major features come out of the box enterprise plugin
Support multi-cloud deployment and integration
Easy to customize the developer portal
What do you dislike about the product?
Product Roadmap - time to delivery can be improved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gateway service for all our microservice-based architecture. Runs on container and also support ingress controller requirement.
Fast and easy
What do you like best about the product?
Fast and high throughput support as always.
What do you dislike about the product?
Api dependency is fixed now and works smooth
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it as an open-source API gateway for managing my microservices. I also used it for verifying JWT.
Kong API Gateway Review for API aggregation
What do you like best about the product?
now the API Gateway is much more stable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Things lloks good. i do not have anything to advice for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I mostly use microservices (docker containers), so kong is a really good option as an API Gateway. it's support for docker is really good and easy. that is why I use cong for projects.
Amazing & Lighting Fast API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Light Weight, Easy to Install & Configure and Super Fast
What do you dislike about the product?
Traceability Features & Access of Logs, RBAC
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
API Management
API Security
API throtling
API Security
API throtling
Kong API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
The first thing of Kong API that ilI like the Most is it's popularity among the World. Can be used in both Hybrid and Multi cloud, it's well optimised for Microservices. It supports Load Balancing of API that's what the most I like of it. We can do clustering, checking health, monitoring few more things. It can even run in Kubernetes. It's Open Source the most Important thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The part that I don't like of Kong API gateway is we need more Integration with Kubernetes. Need more Medium post on Kong API gateways. Some times issue with connection it's get refused sometimes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most Important thing that Kong API gateway solving for me is that it have a large community that you can use to grow. It's open source making itself a large community. Scaling plays a main role as we need to it when traffic is high or when the network is congested Kong is the solution for this use it, if we are facing issue with scalling.
Best API gateway tool -Load Balancing and reverse Proxy workd pretty well and configured.
What do you like best about the product?
Kong offers a unified platform that effectively manages all APIs, ensuring uniform security, monitoring, and traffic control across a large number of services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
Kong allows you to define routing rules and policies to control how API requests are distributed to backend services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes -Its essential to carefully configure and optimize it to minimize any potential performance impact.Limited plugins as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong offers good traffic control capabilities, including load balancing and request routing. It enables us to efficiently distribute incoming API requests across multiple backend services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
We use it for API Gteway for Microservices application.
Kong API gateway - gateway to success
What do you like best about the product?
Configurability, ease of use, Informative logging
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation seems to be not complete in terms of troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to manage the complete API ingress.
Great ecosystem
What do you like best about the product?
Its app ecosystem enables standardization for authentication across organization applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation could be improved to flatten newcomers learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Authentication and authorization can be easily standardize thereby offloading a great deal of operational complexity.
Efficient API management for microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :)
Kong's API support towards open source initiatives has significantly improved since my last review and the ease of integration has certainly reached a new high.
Kong's API support towards open source initiatives has significantly improved since my last review and the ease of integration has certainly reached a new high.
What do you dislike about the product?
Open source nature of the platform does pose a rick of delayed support when it comes to integration with other systems as well as new feature requests. But i'm sure the team is working on it :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
kong api gateway helps me in my personal projects to develop applications based out of diverse tech stack. This eases the overhead of maintain domain knowledge and thereby assists in faster iteration on software development.
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