Kong

Overall rating

7.4

Stars: 40703

Contributors: 340

Kong is a powerful, scalable platform for managing APIs and microservices. It offers robust features for traffic control, security, and performance optimization, making it suitable for cloud-native and hybrid deployments. The platform integrates seamlessly with various environments, enabling developers to build, deploy, and maintain APIs with ease.

Key Features

  • API gateway with traffic control and rate limiting.
  • Authentication and authorization mechanisms.
  • Plugin-based architecture for extensibility.
  • Real-time analytics and monitoring.
  • Support for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
  • High scalability for large-scale applications.
Activity

Last update: Apr 28, 2025

  • Commits (last week)

    2

  • Resolved issues (last week)

    5

  • Merged PRs (last week)

    2

Maturity

Last update: Apr 28, 2025

  • Age

    10 years 5 months

  • Stability

    STABLE

Information

Funding

Has commercial version

Programming languages

Perl
Raku
Lua

Tags

artificial-intelligence
apis
ai
consul
luajit
kubernetes-ingress
kong
api-management
api-gateway
docker
microservice
cloud-native
ai-gateway
kubernetes
devops
serverless
reverse-proxy
microservices
kubernetes-ingress-controller
nginx