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Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.

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An Early Christmas Present for the AI C-Suite: Metering & Billing Comes to Kong Konnect

Product ReleasesDecember 18, 2025

The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they all cost something. And right now, most organizations have no idea what they're spending, who's spending it, or how to control…

Alex Drag

Move More Agentic Workloads to Production with AI Gateway 3.13

Product ReleasesDecember 18, 2025

We know that successful AI connectivity programs often start with an intense focus on how you govern and protect LLM and MCP traffic. This is why Kong was first to market with an enterprise-grade AI gateway , and it’s why, in our last release, we added enterprise MCP proxy support to our…

Greg Peranich

Kong Cloud Gateways: A Year in Review

Product ReleasesDecember 17, 2025

Kong Cloud Gateways are fully managed, high-performance data planes running on customer-dedicated infrastructure, orchestrated and operated by Kong through Kong Konnect . Customers can choose between: Together, these models give organizations the flexibility to run Kong where it makes the most…

Josh Wigginton

Introducing Kong Insomnia 12

Product ReleasesNovember 4, 2025

Before we jump in… When you’re building an MCP server that provides tools, resources, or prompts that AI agents can consume, you’ll need to verify that: In Insomnia 12, we’re bringing the same collaboration and confidence to MCP development that Insomnia already provides for APIs. As agentic AI…

Haley Giuliano

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Introducing kongctl

Product ReleasesOctober 15, 2025

Built for developers We’ve taken the best parts of Terraform, deck, the AWS CLI, and more of your favorite tools and combined them into something that’s really special. kongctl takes inspiration from the AWS CLI, with support for profiles. Profiles are configuration sets that allow you to easily sw…

Michael Heap

Introducing the Volcano SDK to Build AI Agents in a Few Lines of Code

Product ReleasesOctober 14, 2025

Today, we're open-sourcing Volcano SDK, a TypeScript SDK for building AI agents that combines LLM reasoning with real-world actions through MCP tools. Why Volcano SDK? One reason: because 9 lines of code are faster to write and easier to manage than 100+ . Without Volcano SDK? You'd need 100+ lines…

Marco Palladino

New MCP Support Across the Entire Konnect Platform

Product ReleasesOctober 14, 2025

Data might be the fuel for AI. But APIs are the proper way to package that “fuel” as AI-ready “food” is through the API. AI coding tools can do a lot without APIs, but at some point they’ll need to be able to: . . . and all ideally without the engineer having to…

Alex Drag

Make MCP Production-Ready: Introducing Kong’s Enterprise MCP Gateway

Product ReleasesOctober 14, 2025

The solution landscape is complicated by the fact that MCP is still finding its footing, and there are many various OSS projects and vendors that are rapidly shipping “MCP support” in an attempt to take advantage of the hype and attention around MCP. Unfortunately, many early attempts at solutions…

Alex Drag

Liabilities into Assets: Konnect Metering & Billing, Powered by OpenMeter

Product ReleasesOctober 14, 2025

Picture this: you’ve spent months building a slick API that developers love, and it’s already humming behind the scenes in production. But every time someone calls your endpoint, what happens? You get an invisible hit across multiple cost centers, including expensive LLMs, without a clear line of…

Dan Temkin

Can You Trust What You’re Shipping? You Will with Insomnia v12

Product ReleasesOctober 13, 2025

Building trust starts with small things, like making sure every commit tells the right story. That’s where Insomnia’s v12 AI Commit capability comes in. Developers want to write code. It’s what they’re good at and what they enjoy doing. But writing detailed, well-structured commit messages takes…

Haley Giuliano

Datakit Flow Editor: A Visual Approach to API Orchestration

Product ReleasesOctober 9, 2025

Different teams, different preferences API orchestration at the gateway layer can involve coordinating multiple services, transforming data, and managing request flows. Some teams prefer working directly with configuration files — they appreciate the precision, version control integration, and…

Alex Drag

Announcing Kong Operator 2.0

Product ReleasesOctober 1, 2025

Simplified controller configuration When using the Kong Ingress Controller, a significant amount of effort was needed to apply configuration to the controller by setting environment variables. The new ControlPlane resource greatly simplifies this and allows you to set configuration once at the…

Justin Davies

Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8.x.x EOL

Product ReleasesSeptember 23, 2025

As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…

Andrew Jessup

Kong Mesh 2.12: SPIFFE/SPIRE Support and Consistent XDS Resource Names

Product ReleasesSeptember 18, 2025

We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for…

Justin Davies

Building a First-Class Kubernetes Experience in Kong Konnect

Product ReleasesSeptember 18, 2025

To unlock Kubernetes’ full potential, many enterprises are relying on three key building blocks available in Kong Konnect today: Together, these components extend Kubernetes from being just a container orchestration platform. They lay the foundation for Kubernetes to support the exposure,…

Adam Jiroun

Multi-Cloud API and AI Infra Gets Smarter: Managed Redis for Kong DCGW

Product ReleasesSeptember 16, 2025

Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…

Alex Drag
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