Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of AI Manager in Kong Konnect, the platform to manage all of your API, AI, and event connectivity across all modern digital applications and AI agents.

Kong already provides the fastest and most feature rich AI Gateway technology to manage your LLM traffic (including MCP traffic), and with these new AI Manager capabilities in Konnect, you can now easily expose LLMs for consumption by your AI agents, and additionally govern, secure, and observe LLM traffic using a brand-new user interface straight from your browser. The new AI Manager capabilities are in addition to the existing API and declarative configuration that you can already use to govern all your LLM and MCP traffic across AI agents and applications via Kong’s AI Gateway technology.

See a video demonstration of the new AI Manager in action below:

With AI Manager, you can now:

• Manage AI policies via Konnect: Govern, secure, accelerate, and observe AI traffic in a self-managed — or fully managed — AI infrastructure that's easy to deploy.
• Curate your LLM catalog: See what LLMs are available for consumption by AI agents and applications, with custom tiers of access and governance controls.
• Visualize the agentic map: Observe at any given time what agents are consuming the LLMs you've decided to expose to the organization.
• Observe LLM analytics: Measure token, cost, and request consumption with custom dashboards and insights for fine-grained understanding of your AI traffic.

The new AI Manager is compatible with both hybrid deployments of AI Gateway — where you run the data plane in your own infrastructure — and also with managed Dedicated Cloud Gateways deployments — where you can press a button and provision AI infrastructure across all major clouds, with private networking, in a fully auto-scalable and managed way. And there's native support for Kubernetes, of course, via either the Ingress Controller or Operator.

Getting access to 50+ specialized AI capabilities, including federated governance, semantic routing, semantic caching, LLM security, and PII sanitization, has never been easier. Plus, get the ability to observe LLM traffic using the built-in analytics and agentic consumption map.

Get started today with AI Manager at https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect/register.