Kong Gateway Enterprise Reviews

Name: Kong Gateway Enterprise
Brand: Kong
Rating: 3.9 (24 reviews)

Vendor: Kong

3.9 out of 5

24 reviews
92% willing to recommend

240 followers

What is Kong Gateway Enterprise?

Kong delivers a next generation API platform built for modern architectures. With a lightnight-fast, lightweight, and flexible core, Kong delivers sub-millisecond latency across all your services. Kong's is deployment-, vendor-, and pattern-agnostic, allowing you to run your services how you want, where you want, and with who you want - from baremetal to cloud, monolith to microservices, service mesh, and beyond.

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Kong Gateway Enterprise is the #6 ranked solution in top API Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Kong Gateway Enterprise an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 24 most recent Kong Gateway Enterprise reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.9. (Among the highest in the category). Kong Gateway Enterprise is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure API Management: Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Microsoft Azure API Management. Kong Gateway Enterprise is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Kong Gateway Enterprise

November 2024

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Featured reviews

AmitKanodia

Cloud & Integration CoE Head at Capgemini

Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general.

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Paramesh Ande

Pega Solution Architect at Rabobank

There is a tool called Apigee. Apigee has a portal where you can inspect the APIs and do a live tracing of the API, features that are missing in Kong Enterprise and Azure API Management. I am unsure if something else needs to be considered for improvement. Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays. With live tracing of the APIs, you can see how the request is going and where it gets stuck, what the actual input was, what the response is, and all that information we can see with the help of live requests, which is impossible in Kong Enterprise. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the solution. With Kong Enterprise, you can examine after the fact, but why it happens can't be examined.

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Thiago-Lopes

DevOps Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.

It is an excellent tool for managing data. It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me. The shared features are also commendable. One of the aspects I appreciate is the effective rate limiting, achieved through the use of the throttling plugin for our APIs. Additionally, the straightforward automated deployment process for the gateway makes it exceptionally easy for everyone on the team to adapt without complications.

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Kong Gateway Enterprise mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Kong Gateway Enterprise in the API Management category stands at 6.0%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"Kong's most valuable features are its lightweight performance when handling millions of requests and the ability to write custom plugins to enhance security, such as end-to-end encryption, even in the open-source version."
"In terms of stability, the tool's team has made some good efforts, and my company is very happy with the product's approach."
"It offers a wide range of plugins that we leverage, including OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions, and more."

Room for Improvement

"The open-source version of Kong does not support a dashboard, which would be very helpful."
"The tool needs to improve in areas like documentation and UI."
"The software version upgrade process should be improved."