We performed a comparison between Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"API discovery using CA Live API Creator is helpful for integrating with multiple backends, for discovering and kickstarting the API creation process. It is a very good feature."
"We can create multiple orgs and set up policies and management. We can also integrate with an APM solution"
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements."
"It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"As an organization grow, you can use CA API Management for authentication purposes through the CA API Gateway. It allows for multiple identity providers with different Active Directories."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"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."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"The delivery is bulky in terms of implementation. Its price could also be better. It is a very good product as compared to CA API, Google API, and WSO2 API, but its price is high. From the cloud-native perspective, some new features need to be added. It could also be made simpler to implement."
"They should incorporate deeper monitoring features into the solution to make the offering more complete. Doing so would help to showcase traffic patterns and usage to better engage customers and partners proactively. It would also help with API management and capacity planning."
"The cloud-native architecture of the product needs improvement."
"The setup was not as straightforward as it should have been. Support should be improved."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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