WSO2 API Manager pros and cons

Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time.

Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime.

The scalability is fine for our purposes.

The solution is stable.

WSO2 API Manager is easy to use.

I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions.

The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage.

WSO2 is very stable.

WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution.

WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle.

Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages.

I can say that user management is not really flexible. So, if I want to create 1,000 store users, I can't do it as a publisher. You have to register as a store user using the store URL.

The initial setup can be difficult.

The user interface could be a bit better.

I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something.

The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated.

They are developing another platform called Choreo that allows you to create API itself using the WSO2 programming language Ballerina. It would be great if they added a direct connection between Choreo and API Manager, that would be great. I think they are working on that, but I'm not sure.

We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue.

WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance.

WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system.