The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
[](/blog/engineering/tcp-stream-support-kong)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…
[](/blog/engineering/optimizing-prometheus-statsd-exporter-for-scale)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…
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