The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
You've decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You're almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world's most popular open source API gateway . This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed…
A DMZ – Demilitarized Zone – is a military term, roughly summarized, as an area between two adversaries established as a buffer in order to reduce, or eliminate, the possibility of further conflict. In networking, the term usually refers to an area that acts as a buffer between two segregated…
We are happy to announce release 2.2 of our flagship open source API gateway! Those were some busy three months since the release of Kong Gateway 2.1! We have pushed a number of patch releases in the 2.1 series, we’ve had our first fully-digital Kong Summit , and of course, we’ve been very busy…
We are proud today to announce the future of service connectivity - Kong Konnect ! Kong Konnect is the only full stack connectivity platform that is designed from the ground up for the cloud native era, delivered as a service. It accelerates the journey to microservices, secures and governs APIs…
There is a great number of logging plugins for Kong , which might be enough for your needs. However, they have certain limitations: Zipkin is a tracing server, specialized in gathering timing data. Used in conjunction with Kong's Zipkin plugin , it can address the points above: For a basic setup,…
Having worked with many customers and prospects at Kong, one of the main requirements we often hear is how to handle dynamic routing based on the URL and headers. In this blog post, I will cover different use cases we come across for dynamic routing and how Kong can address them. The default…
In today’s enterprise computing landscape, multi-cloud organizations are quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception. By leveraging an API-first strategy with a microservice-based architecture, companies can achieve significant speed to market across multiple clouds. In order to achieve…
Let's admit it - web services (SOAP) are here to stay for a few more years, and maybe for a long time in some places where there is no business incentive to rebuild them. However, with a decline in new SOAP web services and most applications moving to cloud native architectures, a common query…
For many years, API Management (APIM) — and the adoption of API gateways — was the primary technology used to implement modern API technology both inside and outside the data center. API gateway technology has evolved a lot in the past decade, capturing bigger and more comprehensive use cases in…
A common requirement for API gateways is to rewrite the published URL to a different URL for the upstream service’s endpoint. For example, due to legacy reasons, your upstream endpoint may have a base URI like /api/oilers/. However, you want your publicly accessible API endpoint to now be named…
After a full year of development since our last major open source release, we are proud to announce the next chapter of our flagship open-source API gateway — Kong Gateway 2.0 is generally available! With this release, Kong will become more operationally agnostic for large-scale deployments across…
With Kong 1.0 users are now able to control TCP (Transport Control Protocol) traffic. Learn about how we added TCP support, and how you can try it out. TCP traffic powers email, file transfer, ssh, and many other common types of traffic that can't be handled by a layer 7 proxy. Our expansion to…
Kong Cloud has been using StatsD and Prometheus heavily in monitoring and metrics collecting. In this blog post we discuss the use case of StatsD and Prometheus on Kong Cloud, the performance problem we found, and the way we proposed to solve it. StatsD is a metrics server that accepts events from…
Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…
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.