Another year is wrapping up, and we’re taking a moment to reflect on what made 2025 a defining year for Kong. With major advances in building the AI connectivity layer and soaring enterprise adoption of agentic systems, this year sparked a hockey-stick surge in demand for the infrastructure that…
API endpoints process requests that power our digital world—from social feeds updating in real-time to enterprise systems syncing global inventories across continents. APIs comprise over 57% of Internet traffic, yet API endpoints often remain misunderstood. This leads to design inconsistencies,…
As APIs evolve into the strategic connective tissue of digital products and AI, organizations often fail to unlock their value due to a critical misalignment between business goals and technical execution. To transform APIs into genuine growth levers, enterprises must embrace full-lifecycle API…
In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check…
Kong AI Gateway 3.13 introduces MCP Tool ACLs , a powerful feature that enables fine-grained authorization and granular security policies for individual AI agent tools, solving the 'all-or-nothing' access problem. The evolution of AI agents and autonomous systems has created new challenges for…
Gartner just published research that should be required reading for every platform and infrastructure leader building for the agentic era. The report, " How to Enable Agentic AI via API-Based Integration ," makes a stark claim: incrementally reworking existing APIs and connector-based integrations…
As of January 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12.3! Kong Insomnia 12.3 TL;DR? Your New Year’s resolution is probably something along the lines of “work smarter, not harder.” Our resolution is to make that actually possible. Insomnia 12.1 and 12.2 sharpened your tools, and now…
The agentic era is here, and it's exposing a critical gap in enterprise infrastructure. AI agents are no longer experimental. As many as 9 out of 10 enterprise organizations are actively adopting AI agents. Agents are making autonomous decisions, orchestrating complex workflows, and interacting…
KAi, the AI assistant inside Kong Konnect, just got significantly more capable. Today, we're announcing an enhanced beta version powered by the new Kong Konnect MCP Server — a shared infrastructure layer that also opens up your API platform to IDE copilots and custom agents . The result? KAi can…
Kong AI Gateway 3.13 moves enterprises from AI experimentation to shipping production-grade agents by unlocking new capabilities focused on agentic security, developer productivity, and resilience, including MCP tool-level access control, expanded provider support, and smarter load balancing. We…
Discover expanded OpenTelemetry support, full cloud-native authentication, powerful Datakit orchestrations, and PCI DSS 4.0 attestation for Kong Konnect and Cloud Gateways. As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13 simplifies…
Modern AI applications are no longer just about sending prompts to an LLM and returning text. As soon as AI systems need to interact with real business data, internal APIs, or operational workflows, the problem becomes one of orchestration, security, and control. The challenge is to build secure AI…
Today, we're excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.13. Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated? Built on top of…
Have you ever asked an AI assistant to generate code for a framework it doesn't quite understand? Maybe it produces something that looks right, but the syntax is slightly off, or it uses deprecated patterns. The AI is working hard, but it lacks the specific context it needs to truly help you. The…