The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
AI coding tool spend is projected to top $13 billion in 2026, compounding at more than 60% a year. That's an entire category showing up at once, according to the recent Palo Alto Networks' Secure AI Coding report. These agents don't just autocomplete a line of code anymore. They plan. They act.…
Kong Identity can now securely broker downstream credentials for AI agents, giving them access to the systems they need without putting those credentials in the agents themselves. AI agents are getting access to more of the enterprise. An engineering agent might need GitHub and Jira. A support…
As of Aug 31 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter its End of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
As of July 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
The best platform teams don't write glue code — they configure great infrastructure. But as API platform architectures get more complex, policy logic does not always fit into a one-size-fits-all model. Not only that, but security toil compounds with every new service, credential, and cloud provider…
Modern API architectures are no longer linear. A single request can traverse multiple layers of authentication, transformation, enrichment, and observability. As these flows grow more dynamic, the need for fine-grained control over when plugins execute becomes critical. For years, the standard…
OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange fundamentally alters how services establish trust. And the API gateway is the ideal location to enforce this new model. Modern applications don’t run as a single monolithic. They are composed of services — frontend APIs, backend microservices, third-party integrations —…
Enterprise security teams have clear requirements: no static credentials, no exceptions. Every service-to-service connection, whether it's Kong talking to databases, caches, or vaults, should authenticate using the same IAM-based identity model that governs the rest of their cloud infrastructure.…
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…
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…
As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event streams even more powerful, including: We’ll also touch on what’s new with Konnect networking and Active Tracing. There’s a lot to unpack, so keep on reading for the full story!…
I'm commonly asked by customers for advice on how they can build a good platform cross-charging model for their organization. And my gut reaction is nearly always "don't." We'll come back to why I think that later, but first let's look at what cross-charging means, why you might want it, and how it…
Today, we're pleased to announce Kong Gateway 3.10, our next Long-Term Support (LTS) version. This LTS version will be supported until March 2028, up to three years from the release date. Please check our documentation here for more details on Kong’s support policy. Highlights of this release…
Today we're excited to announce Kong Gateway 3.9! Since unveiling Kong Gateway 3.8 at API Summit 2024 just a few months ago, we’ve been busy making important updates and improvements to Kong Gateway. This release introduces new functionality around LLM support for AI governance and security and…
APIs facilitate effortless communication and data exchange between applications and services. However, their inherent design, which codifies service capabilities within the API definition, makes them easily exploitable by malicious actors. API attacks in the US alone are projected to cost $506…