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“Powerful and Flexible API Gateway with Steep Learning Curve, but Strong Long-Term Value”
“User Reactions to Kong - Its Strengths and Weaknesses Unveiled”
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Kong enables any company to become an API-first company with a unified platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller. From growing startups to Fortune 500 companies, more than 600 organizations rely on Kong to help them deliver fast, reliable, and secure digital experiences.
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What I like most is its flexibility and extensibility. The wide range of plugins and integrations allows us to customize API management to fit our exact needs. It's also great that Kong supports both open-source and enterprise options, giving teams the freedom to scale as needed. Kong's ability to handle authentication, rate limiting, logging, and monitoring integrations all in one place really streamlines operations.
Read Full ReviewKong support is responsive and quick with an answer. They have around the clock support, helping our use case quite a bit. Kong itself its a pretty straight forward product and its easy to see how the pieces fit together. Its lightweight enough that customers can deploy in the cloud easily.
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The biggest drawback is the initial setup and the learning curve that is required. The Kong certification does its best to provide you with the knowledge required, but falls a bit short of the mark. While Kong is powerful, configuring it, especially with custom plugins or more advanced features can be complex and time-consuming. Documentation is helpful, but sometimes lacks depth or clarity for edge cases. Troubleshooting issues, even ones such as basic timeouts, can be a challenge due to the confusing nature of some areas of documentation.
Read Full Review- Plugin customizations can be hard to do or not flexible enough to cover the use cases for your company. - Responses to customer support enquiries and bug reporting can be slow. - We've discovered a couple of issues related to the ability to handle large amount of configuration data
Read Full ReviewThe built in logging is really lacking. You have to include a third party technology (which the plugins admittedly help with), but the logging is already there, in a database. Giving us access to this through either API's or allowing us to make RO SQL calls against it would make life much easier. They have deprecated some features that people still use in favor of bringing everyone into their cloud. It works well for some, but not our use case. Their docs are terrifically difficult to read if you don't know exactly what you are looking for ahead of time and sometimes support will point you to an article hidden in their blogs or support pages instead of official docs because the docs are insufficient.
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- IT Consultant1B-10B USDConsumer GoodsReview Source
Powerful and Flexible API Gateway with Steep Learning Curve, but Strong Long-Term Value
As someone who interacts daily with Kong, my overall experience has been positive. It is a powerful and flexible API gateway that supports a wide range of plugins for customization and integrations. The performance is solid, and the scalability makes it a great fit as our company solution. The documentation is generally helpful, but there is room for improvement in that a lot of the information is not consolidated and tends to lead you around the site through various links that, when you need an answer to a typical question, can lead to you getting lost in the weeds of all of the processes that may not be completely relevant. Once set up, Kong is reliable and simplifies API management significantly. - Software Developer1B-10B USDSoftwareReview Source
Kong Support Shows Responsiveness But Prefers Email Over Faster Communication Methods
Kong team is pretty responsive to emails and followups. They have a good understanding of your product in general. Some advisors are more knowledgeable about our use case and are more helpful with that. Primary communication is from email, and things would go faster sometimes if it was Teams meetings or phone calls. Sometimes it would be helpful if they sought to understand more of what I was trying to do before providing an answer. A couple things were deprecated that we were using and I wonder if some of this stems from some startup growing pains of finding what works best. - Senior Cloud Engineer10B+ USDBankingReview Source
"Kong Gateway: A Scalable, Secure API Management Powerhouse"
Kong Gateway has really helped us manage and connect our API connects. We are using 2 different like Internal and External and it's working well. - IT Associate50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Flexibility and Auto-Scaling Features Shape User Experience With Kong API Gateway
I'm truly impressed by Kong, we have been using Kong API Gateway for a long time now and the flexibility that it offers is truly amazing. We can auto scale easily as it's very lightweight, easy to manage and easy to customise. - DevSecOps Engineer10B+ USDIT ServicesReview Source
Enhance Operations with Kong Gateway's User-Friendly Maintenance
The Kong Gateway is an excellent API management solution offering remarkable flexibility and extensibility. One of the standout features is the ability to create custom plugin, enabling us to tailor the gateway to specific use cases. it is also well regarded for being easy to maintain with comprehensive documentation that make troubleshooting the updates.