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."The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution provides good performance."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and happens with accuracy."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"From a security standpoint, it works great. It is the right solution for us. It's lightweight, a software-appliance configuration which was easy to deploy and configure."
"I appreciate Layer 7 API management for its comprehensive approach to the entire API lifecycle, including governance, management, and analytics."
"It has its own language, which make it possible to design and implement the complete flow using existing services and databases, and to create and aggregate fine-and coarse-grained APIs."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"Easy to use, nice UI, and good search functionality."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"The ease of billing is lost when Kong is not available directly on the Azure marketplace. This is one area where they can improve."
"There are old algorithms that the tool does not support - and it shouldn't, in my opinion. But sometimes customers need old algorithms, from old use cases and old applications, migrated to the platform. At those times, there are hiccups that happen."
"There is a need for the migration of policies, better reporting, and monitoring integration."
"As well as the SOA Gateway - that is, the API Gateway; we call it the SOA Gateway - we also are now deploying the developer portal component of the SOA Gateway. That has limitations."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"The CA API Management solution has good security features, but when it comes to being used in areas like enterprise integration, where it is being used as middleware for all the IT environments, that particular feature is quite limited. It doesn't support as many protocols as an industry standard, competing product should."
"Some problems with response time."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 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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