# The Agent Gateway for Secure, Observable Agent-to-Agent Communication
Standardize A2A security, governance, and observability across your entire agent network without changing how agents are built.
## A Centralized Control Plane for Multi-Agent Governance
Agent Gateway is built directly into Kong AI Gateway. No new infrastructure required. Drop it into your existing deployment and immediately gain control over every A2A call.
Capture detailed telemetry on every A2A call. Identify bottlenecks and optimize agent communication before issues reach production.
Centralized authentication, authorization, and rate limiting on all A2A traffic. Ensure compliance and block unauthorized agent interactions before they execute.
Maintain complete, tamper-evident audit trails of every A2A RPC call, including caller identity, capabilities invoked, and outcomes.
## A2A governance built into the runtime you already run
## Unify your A2A governance approach
Proxy and govern all agent-to-agent communication through a standardized Agent Gateway. Enforce access controls, policies, and audit logging.
## Govern agentic access to LLMs and MCP servers
Use the same AI gateway you use for A2A traffic for LLM and MCP governance, too. One gateway. All the native AI traffic.
## Govern access to agent context
Yes, you need to govern agent-to-agent traffic. Yes, you need to govern LLM and MCP consumption. But you also need to govern the context agents consume, and that means API and event data context, too. Govern it all with Kong.
## Flexible Deployment: Cloud, Self-Hosted, or Hybrid
Agent Gateway runs wherever Kong AI Gateway runs – on-prem, in any cloud, or in hybrid configurations. Your agents aren't constrained to one environment, and neither is your governance layer.
Deploy through Kong Konnect for fully managed control plane infrastructure. Get up and running in minutes with enterprise-grade SLAs and global availability
Run the full Kong AI Gateway stack on your own infrastructure. Complete data residency, air-gap support, and no dependency on external control planes.
Keep data plane traffic on-prem while using Konnect for control plane management. Ideal for organizations balancing operational simplicity with data sovereignty requirements.