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."Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"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 most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"Security is the most important parameter of the solution, for me, because whenever you are exposing your APIs to third-parties, it is critical that the data remains anonymous and that data is retained within the system, that it is not leaked. CA API Management provides good security features."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"There are a couple aspects of performance. One is just speed and uptime, and it's stellar in that regard. The other is, how much effort is it to put it in place in the first place, and then how much effort is it to keep it operational. That's where its real strength is. I'm able to do things quickly and easily that I couldn't do before."
"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."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"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"
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"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."
"Layer7 API Management should give a clear roadmap of the product and where it is going, and they should not change the underlying layers."
"It needs better mobile features and HA configuration."
"The development toolkit used for creating APIs should be more online and user-friendly. Deployment and tracking could also be improved. Tools like Apigee provide a complete online experience along with RESTful APIs, to manage all activities. It is a very nice and user-friendly solution compared to CA."
"The Portal is not stable."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
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, Apache APISIX, Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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