Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
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…
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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…
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If your 2026 resolution is to finally get AI costs under control , we've got you covered. Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate…
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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…
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Happy holidays from the Kong team! Consider this our gift to everyone who's been asked "what's the ROI on AI?" one too many times. 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…
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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…
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2025 was a breakout year for Kong Cloud Gateways. As organizations continue to modernize architectures, adopt AI-driven workloads, and operate in increasingly regulated environments, the need for secure, high-performance, and flexible API infrastructure has never been greater. This year, Kong Cloud…
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12! Insomnia 12 TL;DR? This release is about making Insomnia smarter, faster, and more accessible. Whether you’re building for agentic AI or API endpoints, solo or with a team, Insomnia 12 gives you the tools to move faster. Get…
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One of Kong Gateway’s superpowers is deck , our first-party declarative configuration tool. Tens of thousands of developers all around the world have embraced a text-driven, version-controlled configuration workflow for the world’s most used API Gateway . The deck CLI is an incredible tool, but it…
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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…
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If you’ve been following Kong, you know that Kong was the first in the API platform space to introduce an enterprise-grade AI Gateway for LLM workloads. Today, we’ve also introduced a new enterprise-grade MCP Gateway to ensure that you can roll out production-ready MCP deployments. But we are…
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a transformative shift in how AI agents connect to data and tools, but the path to production-readiness and real-world AI value is still fraught with challenges. As organizations rush to adopt MCP and build agentic workflows, they're encountering four…
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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…
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The first time you push an API to production, you’re excited it’s finally live. You’re relieved that you can move on to your next big project. You’re also nervous. You’ve tested as much as you thought you should, but somewhere in the back of your mind is a whisper of, “What if I missed…
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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…
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