Kong Reviews & Product Details

Kong is a company that self-manages the progress and possibilities of the result for other companies, has a well-consolidated and justified API design, has tools for the protection of multiple threats and malicious viruses for our company, we have a communications panel, Prudent access control and formidable information traffic control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We do not have system samples for long periods of time to test the software, nor less free versions that do not make your strategy system accessible to the client, it is considered that more information would be missing from the software and, therefore, would generate more confidence, and finally it has a slow interface but despite this well formulated and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The plugins really improve the overall reusability of a lot of logic of the API gateway Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kong plugins are lua based. I'd be much more happier if I was able to code those in as lightweight JS lambda functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kong is wonderful if you enjoy Lua with Openresty and look to have an sll-in-one solution for API implementation and management. Lua is not as popular as it should be, but Openresty has proven performance and a strong community. For developers using either (likely both) technology, Kong is exciting and fun to implement.

Documentation is also spectacular. Many of the tools within their ecosystem is open source, and usage is free for smaller use cases. They are one of the biggest sponsors of Openresty, so the developer community is pretty active as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Kong is great for implementation of API's, a more manual implementation using serverless is usually the path most devs go for. Kong's use case is a bit too specific to bring over most modern microservice devs to the table. This really limits Kong to just large enterprise contracts which likely do not have as large of a consumer base due to the usage of Lua. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the versatility of Kong. It pretty much will run on any platform and the price point from my understanding isn't that much as well. Great for all types of businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is good for small APIs but the moment I tried to connect to a big one, it immediately started blocking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API management, with REST interface. Plugin oriented architecture means it is easily extensible. Huge support from open source community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have not encountered any problems yet with offering. If anything Kong is updated at very fast pace and that requires constantly trying to keep up with new release, If Kong Nodes are properly setup on docker containers behind Load Balancer like F5 then it becomes easy task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s very easily and readily accessible and can access it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface still can be quite daunting for a novice user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use interface with tools to help manage all inventory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some errors and kinks need to be worked out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Plugin based Architecture help to extend faster

2. Build on top of Nginx prove it to be satble in production

3. Lua Scripting Language make it easy to understand write code for Kong

4. Quick support community on Slack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Lack of a Official UI or Administration Panel

2. Lack of built-in analytics at small scale

3. Lack of policies structure to be applied to multiple consumers

4. Non Cassandra DB support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The project is very well documented. I like the fact that Mashape released the API as an Open Source product some other could benefit from it. It's also a very valuable addition to the API ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kong lacks a User Interface which I think might speed up the process of getting familiar with Kong. It will makes sense far more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First of all it is easy to setup and start playing with. It is super important for microservices to have full control and it is easily deployable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

actually there is nothing that i can not already implement with kong, i just wish it was easier to implement plugins based on more popular languages like python, ruby or even javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source nature.

Plugin approach and available built in plugins that cover the most of the basic necessities.

Great community support. Questng are being answered.

Easily extensible using more plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need Better built-in metrics plugin.

Can use only Cassandra as backend.

No built-in UI for non-programmers to access admin UI - For onboarding clients, APIs etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No worries about implementation, Takes very little time to setup and get things running. I was using way2sms api to send sms for my project work. I used their python library which was great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was a bit doubtful about the auth system. which involved sending the sms text, and login credentials as url parameter in the GET request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is well-organized. Getting things running in Docker as a test was very easy. It has many potentially useful features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I understand Mashape had Cassandra running already, but it's a ridiculous requirement for a configuration store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.