Insomnium vs Kong
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Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform. | It is a 100% local, privacy-focused, and open-source API client for testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, Server-sent events, and gRPC in development/production. |
Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk;
OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs;
Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics;
IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests;
Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens;
Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication;
Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly;
CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked;
Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins; | Works 100% offline, the way a local testing tool should behave;
No cloud services, no tracking/communication to external servers behind the scene |
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GitHub Stars 42.1K | GitHub Stars 3.5K |
GitHub Forks 5.0K | GitHub Forks 232 |
Stacks 671 | Stacks 0 |
Followers 1.5K | Followers 0 |
Votes 139 | Votes 0 |
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