Kong Gateway Enterprise
Kong | Kong Gateway EnterpriseLinux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2017.03.0 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Kong API Gateway review
What do you like best about the product?
The dashboard actually makes sense now: I used to dread explaining API performance to our product team, but Kong's analytics are pretty straightforward. I can literally show them a graph and say "here's where things slowed down" without getting into the technical weeds.
Kubernetes setup was surprisingly smooth: I'll be honest, I was expecting a headache when we moved to containers, but Kong just... worked? The ingress controller picked up our services automatically. Saved me probably a week of manual configuration.
No more 3am deployment calls: Being able to tweak rate limits or add authentication without taking anything down has been huge. Last month during Black Friday traffic, I adjusted our rate limiting on the fly while sitting in my pajamas. My sleep schedule thanks Kong for this.
Finally, consistent environments: Our staging environment actually mirrors production now. No more surprises when we deploy - what works in dev actually works in prod.
Kubernetes setup was surprisingly smooth: I'll be honest, I was expecting a headache when we moved to containers, but Kong just... worked? The ingress controller picked up our services automatically. Saved me probably a week of manual configuration.
No more 3am deployment calls: Being able to tweak rate limits or add authentication without taking anything down has been huge. Last month during Black Friday traffic, I adjusted our rate limiting on the fly while sitting in my pajamas. My sleep schedule thanks Kong for this.
Finally, consistent environments: Our staging environment actually mirrors production now. No more surprises when we deploy - what works in dev actually works in prod.
What do you dislike about the product?
Look, Kong's solid, but it's not perfect:
The Lua thing is annoying: If you need custom plugins, you better know Lua or be ready to learn it. I spent way too many hours on Stack Overflow figuring out basic syntax. Would love a simpler way to write custom logic.
Documentation feels incomplete sometimes: The basics are covered well, but when you hit edge cases, good luck. I've had to reverse-engineer solutions from GitHub issues more times than I'd like.
Monitoring could be better: I still use external tools to keep an eye on resource usage. Would be nice if Kong gave me better visibility into how much CPU and memory it's actually using.
Initial setup was overwhelming: My first time setting up Kong, I stared at the config files for like an hour. A setup wizard would've saved me a lot of confusion.
The Lua thing is annoying: If you need custom plugins, you better know Lua or be ready to learn it. I spent way too many hours on Stack Overflow figuring out basic syntax. Would love a simpler way to write custom logic.
Documentation feels incomplete sometimes: The basics are covered well, but when you hit edge cases, good luck. I've had to reverse-engineer solutions from GitHub issues more times than I'd like.
Monitoring could be better: I still use external tools to keep an eye on resource usage. Would be nice if Kong gave me better visibility into how much CPU and memory it's actually using.
Initial setup was overwhelming: My first time setting up Kong, I stared at the config files for like an hour. A setup wizard would've saved me a lot of confusion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation, we did a lot of end-to-end automation with this KONG API Gateway.
We developed APIs with this. and security services with this.
We developed APIs with this. and security services with this.
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.
It was awesome to use and was very optimistic
What do you like best about the product?
Kong gateway ai is super useful and helps resolves any technical issues quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
The should introduce ai based automation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solving the security problems as another api gateways doesn't provide in such optimistic manner
best price, best performance
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn, fast deployment, GitOps with Kong Deck.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many issues with upstream health check function in older Kong Version (prier 2.6 versions)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Center API Gateway system. Easy and flexible deployment, secure service API with Kong Plugins
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
Where Performance Matters
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure services and routes and plugins in kong and several security plugins makes development handy.
Different flavours of deployment with kong like CP DP Model , Kong mesh and Kong Konnect and standalone on prem deployment.
Lightening fast routing traffic and plugin execution makes it best in performance.
Several policies with kong mesh makes the development handy.
Easy to integrate with the microservices and easy to implement custom plguins .
Different flavours of deployment with kong like CP DP Model , Kong mesh and Kong Konnect and standalone on prem deployment.
Lightening fast routing traffic and plugin execution makes it best in performance.
Several policies with kong mesh makes the development handy.
Easy to integrate with the microservices and easy to implement custom plguins .
What do you dislike about the product?
Creating Custom Plugins using lua ,
forces to learn new technology,
Although kong has flexibility to integrate with GO and JS ,
Still I feel the performance is not similar
forces to learn new technology,
Although kong has flexibility to integrate with GO and JS ,
Still I feel the performance is not similar
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Faster routing the requests across the microservices and the authentication plugins helps to remove the extra burden on creating separate authentication layer on top of microservies.
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
Kong's Arena
What do you like best about the product?
The infrastructure of Kong is it's the best thing which separates it from others.We can easily customise our business flows and also make the plugins customised and then we can deploy them easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Plugins can be made in multiple languages and some easier path for deployment can be made as it is hard to debug and test them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped us handling each and every request easily and can make a detailed note of them and we have customised every flow as per the customers requirement.
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