Discover the future of intelligent API traffic management. Learn how AI-powered gateways enable smarter routing, adaptive security, and real-time decision-making to optimize and secure API ecosystems.
If you're a builder, you likely keep sending your LLM credentials on every request from your agents and applications. But if you operate in an enterprise environment, you'll want to store your credentials in a secure third-party like HashiCorp Vault or IDP provider and have the infrastructure…
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…
As businesses increasingly harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), a new challenge emerges: managing the deluge of AI requests flooding systems. This exponential growth in AI traffic creates what could be considered a gratifying predicament—high demand…
The world of artificial intelligence is undergoing a seismic shift, with the emergence of agentic AI redefining the landscape of API development and management. As businesses and developers navigate the complexities of digital transformation, understanding the implications of this groundbreaking…
The hype for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached a boiling point. Everyone ( including Kong ) is releasing something around MCP to ensure they aren't seen as falling behind in the ever-changing AI landscape. However, in this mad dash, there remains confusion around MCP and what…
As organizations continue to adopt AI-driven applications, managing usage and costs becomes more critical. Large language models (LLMs), such as those provided by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Mistral, can incur significant expenses when overused. This blog will explore how you can streamline your…
Kong has supported Redis since its early versions. In fact, the integration between Kong Gateway and Redis is a powerful combination to enhance API management. We can summarize the integration points and use cases of Kong and Redis into three main groups: For all use cases, Kong supports multiple…
The explosion of AI-native applications is upon us. With each new week, massive innovations are being made in how AI-centric applications are being built. There are a variety of tools developers need to consider, be it supplying live contextual data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or…
Today, we’re excited to unveil Kong AI Gateway 3.10! This release introduces new functionality to enhance AI governance, reduce LLM hallucinations, and accelerate developer productivity when working with AI. Read on to learn more. Kong AI Gateway 3.10 ships with a new AI RAG Injector plugin that…
AI is quickly transforming the way businesses operate, turning what was once futuristic into everyday reality. However, we're still in the early innings of AI, and there are still several key limitations with AI that organizations should remain aware of to ensure that AI is being leveraged in a…
LLMs operate as highly capable, non-deterministic pattern matchers. But they come with two significant privacy challenges: If you pass raw user input, internal logs, or structured data directly into an LLM without safeguards, you’re risking the exposure of names, emails, credit cards, health info,…
Let's take a step back and start from the top: Defining AI Observability. This is the practice and intentional framework of gaining deep, real-time insights into the behavior and performance of AI systems. It goes beyond the basics of tracking CPU usage or memory consumption. Instead, it focuses on…
The AI Proxy Revolution has changed the way developers operate, helping save money and speed up development. This new approach improves how systems talk to each other and allows for quicker, more efficient data exchange. Modern software development is regularly burdened with challenges around costs…
The rise of AI and LLMs in our world is revolutionizing the applications we’re building and the customer experiences we’re delivering. This is one of the pivotal moments in our industry where we cross over an intersection in our technology evolution to enter a new journey with a paradigm shift.…
As AI technologies continue to revolutionize industries, organizations must balance innovation with responsibility. Kong understands that embracing AI involves not just adopting new tools but also ensuring they're secure, compliant, and sustainable. During a recent visit to Singapore, Kong's…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.