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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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.
One of the Best API Gateway I have ever used!
What do you like best about the product?
Portabie, scalable and open source with easy to use interface and implement in a microservice based architecture. We have been using it for a year without any problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Kong API documentation is quite difficult to understand and more user friendly tutorials or documentation could be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
HA Routing and security for micro-services.
Increase speed to connect market with kong connect
What do you like best about the product?
Grow faster and securely with kong trusted api management platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
They do not offer native functionality to generate apis automatically.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It make faster api write up.
Great product
What do you like best about the product?
I believe the community behind Kong is amazing
What do you dislike about the product?
When reading the documentation I believe it lacks in depth
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it has helped bulding API quickly when compared to other options
KONG Integration
What do you like best about the product?
From my point of view, it was quite ease to implement and integrate it in our project
What do you dislike about the product?
Optimize the documentation because it's quite frustrating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration api gateway in our kubernetes clusters
Cloud Agnostic API Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
It's a cloud agnostic API Gateway. For a multi-cloud enviornment i.e. where API endpoints can be hosted in multiple cloud providers like AWS or Azure, Kong can be used without dependency on a specific cloud provider..
What do you dislike about the product?
The Admin GUI cannot be used in the YAML config format, it's only possible if the PostGres DB is used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kong solved our Authentication problem. We used JWT token plugin of kong for autetication purpose of 3rd party API clients.
Using Kong Gateway at a Bank
What do you like best about the product?
Upsides:
Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode
Simplified API management (different country clusters)
Robust security features (Introspection Plugin)
Scalability and performance of DB-less mode
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides:
Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade)
Steep learning curve for decalrative configuration as well as plugin usages
Limited documentation in some areas especially releated to plugins
Occasional stability issues with updates (version upgrade)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I feel that in the context of my work, Kong API solves and improves the below key areas
API Management: Simplifying the management of APIs, making it easier to control access, monitor usage, and ensure security compliance.
Security Enhancement: Providing robust security features like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, which are crucial for safeguarding sensitive banking data and transactions.
Scalability: Enabling seamless scaling of API infrastructure to handle increasing loads and accommodate growth in customer interactions and transactions.
Interoperability: Facilitating integration between various banking systems and applications, ensuring smooth communication and interoperability across the bank's ecosystem.
Performance Optimization: Improving the performance of APIs by caching responses, reducing latency, and optimizing traffic routing, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for both customers and internal users.
API Management: Simplifying the management of APIs, making it easier to control access, monitor usage, and ensure security compliance.
Security Enhancement: Providing robust security features like authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, which are crucial for safeguarding sensitive banking data and transactions.
Scalability: Enabling seamless scaling of API infrastructure to handle increasing loads and accommodate growth in customer interactions and transactions.
Interoperability: Facilitating integration between various banking systems and applications, ensuring smooth communication and interoperability across the bank's ecosystem.
Performance Optimization: Improving the performance of APIs by caching responses, reducing latency, and optimizing traffic routing, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for both customers and internal users.
Best Tool for Starting Out
What do you like best about the product?
As a computer science student and an upcoming intern, my experience with Kong API Gateway has been quite enlightening. Navigating the complexities of modern application development, particularly in the world of APIs and microservices, Kong has proven to be a robust tool that helps between theoretical knowledge and practical application.
The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial.
The first thing that stood out about Kong is its extensive and organized documentation. As someone new to the field, the clear examples and detailed explanations made the initial setup and configuration straightforward.Kong’s plugin architecture is particularly impressive. It allows for easy customization and enhancement of the API gateway functionalities.Kong’s compatibility with containerized environments like Kubernetes is also particularly beneficial.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Kong offers a free open-source version, some advanced features are only available in the paid versions. This is a limitaction for me as I cant utilise them. Also I have somtimes noticed that CPU usage also spikes abnormally when utilising Kong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have utilised to solve routing requests quite efficiently using Kong. Furthermore it gives a decent service in term of monitoring and logging which earlier had to be configured explicitly for my application.
Kong API Gateway Survey - Vivek Doddaguni
What do you like best about the product?
ease of use; Number of features and customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues while running the api's
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can solve the bank's Fraud Detection Platform where most of the deveopment is using web API
Kong enterprise and Kong Konnect review.
What do you like best about the product?
The software is very easy to implement. We use docker on a linux VM. The Kong API gateway is easily configurable for defining services and routes. We take advantage of both basic authorization and key authorization for our security needs. The API gateway is used for both production and non-production environments. We have had some needs for support. We have found that customer support is quick in responding to tickets to help us resolve the issue or question. We recently started using Konnect to control our configurations for easier data plane management.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one thing that we don't really like is the UI and the filtering ability. The filter feature is good. But, feel that the filter should stay in place until you change it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The gateway is primarily used as a security front end for routing to our services.
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