The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Today we're announcing kongctl 1.0, Kong's new command-line (CLI) tool for managing Kong Konnect programmatically. This release brings kongctl to the Generally Available (GA) level of support and capabilities, giving developers, platform engineers, and AI coding agents a streamlined tool for…
Legacy API management platforms were built for a different era. They weren't designed for microservices, multi-cloud deployments, or AI workloads. They're expensive, rigid, and hold engineering teams back. The problem is that migration has always felt hard. APIs are load-bearing infrastructure.…
Customers today face significant challenges as their Kubernetes environments scale. The proliferation of microservices, external integrations, and new AI workloads increases traffic volume and connectivity complexity, creating material risks to performance and availability. The core issue is a lack…
Your AI infrastructure is producing financial signals your CFO has never seen. Token consumption is a direct cost line item. Cache hit rate is a margin improvement. Model routing decisions are cost arbitrage events. These things are happening right now, in the gateway layer, with no route to the…
Digital agreements are at the heart of many critical business processes. As companies modernize their technology stacks and adopt API-driven architectures, integrating agreement workflows directly into applications has become increasingly important. By combining the capabilities of Kong Konnect…
When enterprises started experimenting with LLMs, the governance challenge — while still difficult — was relatively contained once you had an AI Gateway for LLM traffic. You had a request going to a model, a response coming back, and a gateway in between to enforce policy. With the right solutions,…
Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. Ultimately, we may need to grant access to such infrastructure to the most diverse entities, including external…
We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint…
The messaging and data streaming industries are constantly evolving, with major shifts such as large vendor purchases. If your company relies heavily on a platform such as Apache Kafka and you recently discovered that your vendor was acquired by a competitor, you are most likely dealing with a…
Every enterprise moving AI into production is about to face a familiar problem in an unfamiliar form: the cost explosion, but for LLMs. This is very similar to what happened with cloud. In the early days of cloud, teams spun up infrastructure with no visibility into who was consuming what. Finance…
Last week, Gartner published a report titled MCP Servers Will Fuel the Next AI Revenue Surge — Context as a Service (1) that should be required reading for every enterprise technology leader. Then, Kong CEO Augusto Marietti (Aghi for short) wrote out his thoughts on the subject and why context is…
Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter , the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI workloads. This is a…
Picture this: you’ve spent months building a slick API that developers love, and it’s already humming behind the scenes in production. But every time someone calls your endpoint, what happens? You get an invisible hit across multiple cost centers, including expensive LLMs, without a clear line of…
Happy holidays from the Kong team! Consider this our gift to everyone who's been asked "what's the ROI on AI?" one too many times. The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they…
If your 2026 resolution is to finally get AI costs under control , we've got you covered. Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate…