We performed a comparison between Apigee, Layer7 API Management, and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"They capture the details of all the incoming and outgoing traffic of your APIs. Based on 300+ default dimensions you can generate beautiful and insightful reports on usage and consumption of APIs."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"Its customer service is good."
"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"Ease of use."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"They have got a very compelling platform that enables organizations to easily develop and roll out mobile applications."
"The out-of-the-box security features are useful. Right now, you can just right-click and drag and drop the assertions with the rate limit. That, as well as the x-amount surge protection, is built in so we can bring that in."
"API Enhanced Portal 4.1 looks very promising. API Gateway policy manager for writing policies is excellent. It is the best in the industry for policy writing."
"The actual management of APIs is fundamental to us, as we're a heavy API user/provider. So, obviously, a centralised management platform is important."
"It has improved API governance and gives analytics to API performance."
"We can create multiple orgs and set up policies and management. We can also integrate with an APM solution"
"Technical support has been helpful."
"Overall, the platform is pretty good, I cannot say which one specific feature is good. The idea of an API manager is really interesting."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The most important features are the API management and API development."
"The stability overall has been pretty great."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"It provides all of the robust platform-enabled features."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
"Integration should be improved."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
"I have heard there maybe be some security issues that need to be addressed. If this is the situation I would encourage taking a look at the security matters."
"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."
"As it is now, the rotation of certificates is a manual task and is something that can be improved."
"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."
"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"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."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"The Policy Manager tool that is used to manage the solution is very heavy to use because it is based in Java. Sometimes it takes a long time to load. There could be some improvements to it. If they could make Policy Manager on a web page that would be a good alternative."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"I'd suggest more control over MQ restarts and greater transparency in traffic management."
"I think that they can bring some transparency in reference to the terms of the microservices architecture."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager can improve some of the gateway features. We could use some more customization in creating rules. A lot of the policies are related to the APIs rather than the client. If I want to apply a policy based on a client that is not available."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
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