Kong (Mashape)
Overview
Secure, Manage & Extend your APIs and Microservices. The open-source management layer for APIs, delivering high performance and reliability.
Features
- Analytics - Plugins (Galileo), Logging, visualizations via proprietary tools
- Availability - Failure Detection & Recovery
- Community - Gelato
- Deployment - Cloud, on-premise, hybrid (Docker, ...)
- Documentation - Gelato
- Load management - Traffic Control (Rate Limiting,...)
- Security - Security (ACL, CORS,...)
- Transformation - Request, Response transformations and Correlation ID
Licensing & Openness
- Open source components released under Apache License 2.0
- Some proprietary components include visual analytics
Community involvement
Kong has multiple channels for community engagement. In addition, there are many community resources and tools
Type of product
API Proxy
Lifecycle management
Designed as a proxy for existing API backends. Offers tools for the management lifecycle stage.
Programming languages / technologies
UI
3rd party packages
Strengths
- Plugin architecture
- mostly open-source
Weaknesses
Not fully open source, some plugins are commercial. E.g. visual analytics requires commercial subscription.