The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been…
In the last two parts of this series, we discussed How to Strengthen a ReAct AI Agent with Kong AI Gateway and How to Build a Single-LLM AI Agent with Kong AI Gateway and LangGraph . In this third and final part, we're going to evolve the AI Agent with multiple LLMs and Semantic…
When speaking with our customers, and particularly with platform teams, we repeatedly hear about how difficult it is to discover and govern all the services and APIs that actively run on their infrastructure. In ever-expanding and changing environments, platform teams often grapple with the…
For the past several years, there have been murmurs of an incoming convergence between API management and event management. This has been more than a vendor-led phenomenon; industry analysts — such as Gartner and Forrester — see the worlds colliding as well, which is why Gartner mentions event…
In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Kong and OpenTelemetry to establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets more effectively. By tracking performance metrics and error rates against predefined thresholds, teams can prioritize their work…
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…
In Kong Gateway 2.0, we released Hybrid Mode , also known as Control Plane/Data Plane separation. With it, our customers could efficiently and securely deploy clusters of Kong Gateway Dataplanes on their on-prem, private, and public clouds in any combination they wanted, and they could control the…
For the last couple of years, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures have become a rising trend for AI-based applications. Generally speaking, RAG offers a solution to some of the limitations in traditional generative AI models, such as accuracy and hallucinations, allowing companies to…
We're excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.8 , a significant update that marks a major milestone in the evolution of our API management platform. This release is packed with enhancements designed to boost performance, fortify security, and provide greater flexibility and ease of use…
One of the superpowers of Kong Gateway that its users most appreciate is its declarative configuration management capabilities, facilitated by the decK command line tool. Declarative configuration enables you to manage your Kong Gateway configuration using GitOps practices, including federated…
Today with the release of Insomnia 10 , we are quite stoked to also announce a brand new offering in Insomnia, the AI Runner, a managed SaaS service that provides developers with the ability to accelerate and secure LLM traffic for their applications. This capability is the first of a new class of…
The router component in the Kong Gateway is a crucial element for traffic handling, allowing the definition of specific matching rules to identify and process client requests. As a core component of the gateway, the router plays a vital role in ensuring the functionality, flexibility, security as…
We're introducing several new Kong AI Gateway capabilities in Kong Gateway 3.7 and Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.7, including enterprise-only and OSS improvements. Read on for a full rundown of the new AI-focused features. With the new Kong Gateway 3.7 release , we're promoting Kong AI Gateway to GA…
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.7 and Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.7. Along with enhancements and new features for both OSS and enterprise users, this version comes with the general availability of our edge AI Gateway. This release offers a brand new context…
At Kong, we take the robustness and performance of our gateway product seriously, dedicating ourselves to maintaining high standards through a robust internal benchmark framework and infrastructure. Our setup includes a dedicated bare metal cluster for running performance tests, seamlessly…
As of May 2024, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.3.x.x will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be a part of the full support cycle. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.3.x.x will enter a 12-month sunset support period, exclusively focused on helping customers upgrade to a current…
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