For me, the biggest advantage is having one centralized place to manage APIs, security policies, routing, and monitoring. The analytics are also useful because they help me quickly spot performance issues and better understand how our APIs are being used.

It serves as a base layer for our API gateway and security solution

Onboarding a new team onto Kong Konnect has been smoother than I expected. RBAC and workspace separation let different team manage their own services without stepping on each other, which matters a lot once you scale past a handful of squads. Version control for APIs is also solid - rolling back a bad config change takes seconds instead of a whole incident response. CI/CD integration was straightforward too, so pushing gateway config changes through our existing pipeline didn't need a separate process.