What do you like best about the product?

Kong has a modular plugin system that allows you to extend its functionality without altering the core system. This means you can add features like authentication, logging, rate limiting, and data transformation as needed, making it highly customizable.

What do you dislike about the product?

Plugin Limitations: Some useful plugins are only available in the paid version, which might be a limitation for smaller teams or projects.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you’re building an application that needs to connect different services, Kong can help manage and monitor those connections.

What do you like best about the product?

Kong Gateway is compatible with most APIs created by vendors with the use of MTLS. It ensures safety of data while allowing the consistent flow of connectivity between servers.

What do you dislike about the product?

As of the moment, nothing to mention on this part as Kong API is working for us perfectly.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong Gateway allows MTLS to be dependable by ensuring that data entries are compatible with our server features.

What do you like best about the product?

It allow us to integrate with various IDP integration using azure, okta , aws cognito and many more.

Provide amazing functionalities of plugin and we can also create custom plugin by building lua code.

Provide developer protal functionalities for the developer to onborad api to show them to the outer World.

Good customer support.

What do you dislike about the product?

Documentation is not proper like we debugging takes a lot of time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provide functionality of sso that is really amazing to integrate it with third party provider.

What do you like best about the product?

High Performance and Scalability
Extensive Plugin Architecture
Comprehensive API Management
Strong Security Features
Service Mesh Integration
Active Community and Support

What do you dislike about the product?

Complexity of Advanced Features
Steep Learning Curve for Custom Plugins
Occasional Gaps in Documentation
High Cost of Enterprise Edition
Potential for Configuration Challenges

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Management

Problem: Complex and time-consuming management of multiple APIs.
Benefit: Streamlines and automates API management, reducing manual workload.

Security

Problem: Ensuring API security against unauthorized access and threats.
Benefit: Enhances security with features like OAuth2, JWT, IP whitelisting, and data encryption.

Scalability

Problem: Handling high volumes of API requests without performance issues.
Benefit: High-performance architecture ensures scalability and low latency.

Extensibility

Problem: Difficulty in customizing API functionality.
Benefit: Extensive plugin architecture allows for tailored solutions and enhanced functionality.

Service Mesh Integration

Problem: Complex integration of APIs within microservices environments.
Benefit: Seamless compatibility with service mesh architectures and container orchestration platforms.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease in Handling large volumes of API requests, simple implementation and customer support

What do you dislike about the product?

There is a scope to add custom feature where we can contribute or take advantage of the same, which can be done as per the need of the developer.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

From the project perspective, it helped in management of APIs with security measures and traffic monitoring.