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# Kong Konnect

The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.

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# Kong Cloud Gateways: A Year in Review

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectDecember 17, 2025

2025 was a breakout year for Kong Cloud Gateways. As organizations continue to modernize architectures, adopt AI-driven workloads, and operate in increasingly regulated environments, the need for secure, high-performance, and flexible API infrastructure has never been greater. This year, Kong Cloud…

Josh Wigginton

# KAi Just Got a Major Upgrade, Powered by the New Kong Konnect MCP Server

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectJanuary 21, 2026

KAi, the AI assistant inside Kong Konnect, just got significantly more capable. Today, we're announcing an enhanced beta version powered by the new Kong Konnect MCP Server — a shared infrastructure layer that also opens up your API platform to IDE copilots and custom agents . The result? KAi can…

Alex Drag

# Announcing Mesh Manager Support in Konnect Terraform Provider

[Service Mesh](/blog/tag/service-mesh)Service MeshJuly 17, 2025

We’re excited to announce the beta support for Mesh Manager in the Konnect Terraform Provider — a new tool that brings the power of infrastructure-as-code to Kong’s Service Mesh management platform. This provider enables engineering teams to declaratively manage Konnect Mesh resources using…

Krzysztof Słonka

# Terraform Your Way to the Cloud with Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectApril 16, 2025

Imagine a world where you could deploy your API gateways across any cloud, enforce enterprise-grade policies, and meet compliance standards all within a single Terraform apply. Most teams think about infrastructure as code only in terms of spinning up VMs, networking components, databases, or maybe…

Declan Keane

# Enable Enterprise-Wide Agentic Access to APIs

[API Management](/blog/tag/api-management)API ManagementOctober 3, 2025

While more and more organizations are seeking to standardize and consolidate their API and AI infrastructure efforts in a unified platform , the reality is that many — especially large — organizations already have disparate API deployments across disparate API gateways. One common API gateway that…

Alex Drag

# Merge API Management & Identity to Unlock Your API Platform's Potential

[API Management](/blog/tag/api-management)API ManagementOctober 7, 2025

APIs empower every enterprise function, starting from seamless customer experiences to efficient internal operations. As a matter of fact, APIs are the foundational technology that fuels the advancements in AI, MCP, agentic, and autonomous systems. They're the critical connective tissue that allows…

Dan Temkin

# The Observability Gap: Why API and AI Monitoring Must Converge Now

[Governance](/blog/tag/governance)GovernanceSeptember 25, 2025

Disruptive businesses are understandably rushing to deploy AI-native applications alongside traditional API infrastructure. However, managing observability across both domains (API and AI) while keeping a tab on performance visibility and operational control remains a pressing challenge. AI…

Alex Drag

# Custom Dashboards in Konnect Analytics Now Generally Available

[API Analytics](/blog/tag/api-analytics)API AnalyticsAugust 21, 2025

If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether…

Christian Heidenreich

# Kong Named Across Eight Categories in 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectSeptember 11, 2025

Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most…

Heather Halenbeck

# Introducing Kong's New MCP Server to Access Your API System of Record

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectApril 1, 2025

MCP is a new way to integrate LLMs and AI agents with third-party data sources and APIs. It significantly improves how we build tool integrations by eliminating duplicated code and providing a centralized interface for multiple agents to access shared tools. Today, we’re excited to announce the…

Marco Palladino

# Datakit Flow Editor: A Visual Approach to API Orchestration

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectOctober 9, 2025

Different teams, different preferences API orchestration at the gateway layer can involve coordinating multiple services, transforming data, and managing request flows. Some teams prefer working directly with configuration files — they appreciate the precision, version control integration, and…

Alex Drag

# Multi-Cloud API and AI Infra Gets Smarter: Managed Redis for Kong DCGW

[Multi Cloud](/blog/tag/multi-cloud)Multi CloudSeptember 16, 2025

Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…

Alex Drag

# Introducing Konnect Debugger: Get Unprecedented API Traffic Visibility

[Kong Konnect](/blog/tag/kong-konnect)Kong KonnectJuly 22, 2025

We're excited to announce the general availability of Konnect Debugger, formerly known as Active Tracing during its tech preview phase. This powerful debugging and observability solution in Kong Konnect has evolved from a focused tracing tool into a comprehensive debugging platform. Konnect Debugge…

Veena Rajarathna

# Kong's New Developer Portal: Modern UX Meets Developer Self-Service

[Developer Portal](/blog/tag/developer-portal)Developer PortalJuly 1, 2025

We just GA’d the new Kong Konnect Developer Portal as part of our broader API discovery initiative , and it represents a fundamental rethink of what a developer portal should be. Built from the ground up on a modern tech stack, it delivers both the simplicity teams need to get started fast and the…

Michael Field

# Introducing Kong Konnect

Konnect
[API Gateway](/blog/tag/api-gateway)API GatewayOctober 7, 2020

We are proud today to announce the future of service connectivity - Kong Konnect ! Kong Konnect is the only full stack connectivity platform that is designed from the ground up for the cloud native era, delivered as a service. It accelerates the journey to microservices, secures and governs APIs…

Augusto Marietti
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