Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custom code to handle the exceptions. Neither scales…
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Agent-to-agent communication is the next frontier of AI infrastructure. As teams decompose monolithic AI workflows into specialized agents — a research agent, a booking agent, a summarization agent — the calls between those agents become as important to govern as the calls from end users. With…
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Kong Agent Gateway is a new capability within Kong AI Gateway that extends our platform to more robustly cover agent-to-agent (A2A) communication. With this release, Kong AI Gateway now natively handles all three patterns of AI traffic in a product that is already being used by some of the largest…
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The widespread adoption of Kafka and event streaming platforms is evident across several enterprises, where they serve as the backbone of critical operations, ranging from financial transactions to AI inference pipelines. However, in the domains of security and identity, most teams continue to face…
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Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the performance of an in-memory data store with the simplicity of a SaaS product. When you spin up a Dedicated Cloud Gateway in Kong Konnect, you can now toggle on Managed Redis with…
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We've been all ears. Your workflows clearly told us what mattered most: tabs that adapt to how you actually work, Git commits you can actually understand, and admin controls that don't require a manual to navigate. Insomnia v12.4 discards the friction so you can focus on what’s most important:…
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Agents are ultimately decision makers. They make those decisions by combining intelligence with context, ultimately meaning they are only ever as useful as the context they can access. An agent that can't check inventory levels, look up customer history, or verify pricing isn't autonomous — it's…
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With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway API, your dataplane, routes, and services were in read-only mode. When using Kong Ingress Controller with Kubernetes Gateway API, Kubernetes serves as the authoritative source of…
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This isn’t just about one pricing change. It’s about a pattern. Some tools promise “free forever” to get you invested, watch you build workflows, and then change the rules. They know you’ve onboarded your teams, documented your APIs, and integrated the tool into your daily work. By the time they…
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The Kong MCP Registry acts as a central directory for AI agents and clients to access services that provide context or take action. For AI agents, think of it as a combination of a "Service Catalog" and a "Developer Portal." It offers the metadata, API endpoints, and capability definitions that…
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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 the open source Kuma service mesh, Kong Mesh is…
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We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science project but has become a margin-bleeding cost center. But "governance" and "monetization" shouldn't just be…
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If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately. The enhanced version has deeper access to your Konnect environment and new tools for debugging, analytics, and configuration management: The new KAi is more capable because it's backed by a structured set of tools that can query…
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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…
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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 Insomnia 12.3 removes the friction to allow you to focus on building great…
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The evolution of AI agents and autonomous systems has created new challenges for enterprise organizations. While securing API endpoints is well-understood, controlling access to individual AI agent tools presents a unique authorization problem. Today, we're excited to announce a powerful solution…
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