The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Traditional agreement processes were slow and heavily manual. Documents were often created in office tools, shared through email, printed, signed physically, and stored across multiple systems. Tracking the status of agreements required manual follow-up, and integrating these workflows with…
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Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custom code to handle the exceptions. Neither scales…
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Imagine you have a single Service, order-api . You want to apply a strict rate limit to most traffic, but you want to bypass that limit—or apply a different one—if the request contains a specific X-App-Priority: High header. Previously, you had two choices, neither of them ideal: Kong Gateway 3.14…
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Modern applications don’t run as a single monolithic. They are composed of services — frontend APIs, backend microservices, third-party integrations — each in its own security perimeter, potentially across different identity domains. The credentials that open one door don’t necessarily open…
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Starting with 3.13 (which addressed Redis support) and completed in 3.14, Kong now presents a unified approach to cloud-native authentication across every component it connects to — databases, caches, and secrets managers alike. The strategic principle is straightforward : any component Kong…
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Traditional APIs are, in a word, predictable. You know what you're getting: AI APIs, especially anything that runs on LLMs under the hood, are a completely different story. These things are highly unpredictable by their very nature. You're dealing with token-based costs that swing wildly depending…
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In the latest Kong Gateway 3.12 release , announced October 2025, specific MCP capabilities have been released: The Kong AI Gateway sits in between the AI applications we build and the MCP Servers and GenAI models we consume. In fact, the Kong MCP Gateway sits side-by-side with the Kong LLM…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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