I use it as a gateway for our APIs. We have several hundred APIs here, so we use Kong Gateway Enterprise to manage and monitor them. In this application platform, we prefer to use the Kong Enterprise UI instead of the Kong Community Edition GUI.
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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.
Kong Api review
What do you like best about the product?
This is vey robust and easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is very expencive for small level of company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It generates api in small spam of time.
Create Product and potential future market leader
What do you like best about the product?
1. Low Latest
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?
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.
This enhances security, provides valuable analytics, and allows our team to focus on development.
Great tool and Market leader
What do you like best about the product?
In 2025, Kong has releasae lots of new features in Kong Konnect like in AI Gateway it has release Automated RAG Pipelines , PII Sanitization plugins and also enhance Enhanced security and reliability.
Kong also release a debug tracing where we can see the live tracing, which is really good and too fast compare to other APIM.
Kong has also release Kong Event Gateway which is tailored for event-driven architecture which extends Kong's reach beyound synchronous REST.gRPC APIs to tackle streaming and event-based workflow
Kong also release a debug tracing where we can see the live tracing, which is really good and too fast compare to other APIM.
Kong has also release Kong Event Gateway which is tailored for event-driven architecture which extends Kong's reach beyound synchronous REST.gRPC APIs to tackle streaming and event-based workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
I want Kong Gateway to also work as an Identity Provider (IDP) so it can create and manage tokens on its own, instead of depending on third-party platforms like Okta, Auth0, and others.
Kong Gateway Operator 1.5 is powerful, but CRDs can be verbose, and debugging misconfigurations still requires YAML diving.
Kong Gateway Operator 1.5 is powerful, but CRDs can be verbose, and debugging misconfigurations still requires YAML diving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It centralizes API management, ensuring security, scalability, and streamlined development, while providing analytics for optimization, benefiting developers and businesses alike.
Great Product having Potential of being the Segment Leader
What do you like best about the product?
after my previous response, I can see various plugins such as PII sanitization and Automated RAG injector as welll as trace tool for debugging is also very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Kong is not acting as an IDP server, we are not able to generate tokens from kong itself, we have to use third party IDP servers as okta, oauth 0 etc, so it will be good if we can get this functionality in kong itself, so it can compete with other API gateways like Apigee.
What problems is the product 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.
Helps manage API usage, monitor anomalies, and detect unusual behavior
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
We use both authorization and header-based methods. Additionally, we connect with our identity provider (IdP) using single sign-on (SSO) and OAuth 2.0. We also enable OpenID Connect.
The traffic control capabilities in Kong Gateway are effective. It helps me manage the usage of each API and monitor any anomalies. I can see any strange behavior or illegal usage from developers, which allows me to notify management about potential issues. Sometimes, it might just be a typo or a bug in the application, but other times, it could be something more serious. The Kong Gateway's traffic control helps detect these anomalies in usage.
What needs improvement?
The main challenge, in my opinion, is the price. It's difficult to convince our management to approve the budget to purchase it from our vendor. There are no technical problems.
It's expensive in Thailand (10 million baht, in Thai currency).
One thing I've seen in a competitor's product is the ability to create a simple API within their platform using a low-code/no-code GUI. It connects to databases and allows you to drag and drop to create basic API functions. I think this feature would be a valuable addition to Kong Gateway Enterprise.
So, they should create a single API for the platform.
Moreover, if Kong Gateway Enterprise could integrate AI, that would be great. It could automatically scale itself, assess request rates for each API, or even detect attacks. That would be great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for one and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Kong Gateway helped to improve performance. It's good enough for our users.
I would rate the availability an eight out of ten, we experienced some hiccups.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's very easy to scale and create another adapter.
I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We around thousands of end users using it.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Kong is my first API gateway.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup had moderate complexity. You have to know a lot of things.
I would rate my experience with the initial setup a five out of ten, with ten being easy.
The Community Edition requires a lot of technical knowledge to implement and use. It's okay for me, but you need to know a lot about Linux, Docker, and networking.
- Deployment time: From scratch, it took about three months.
- Deployment process: The main thing is the configuration and combining it with our existing APIs. Adding them one by one is the most tedious part.
What about the implementation team?
I implemented it. I deploy it in Docker and use it with my team.
What was our ROI?
It helps us mitigate the time to detect problems since we can look up the monitoring system and logs very easily.
It's free for the community edition.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's expensive in Thailand.
As far as I know from one of our vendors, it's about 10 million baht per year.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I'm comparing Kong Gateway Enterprise with other software for potential use in our enterprise. We're looking at management, monitoring, and ease of use.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend it because its performance is great. It's reliable.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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