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Semantic Processing and Vector Similarity Search with Kong and Redis

AIApril 29, 2025

Kong has supported Redis since its early versions. In fact, the integration between Kong Gateway and Redis is a powerful combination to enhance API management. We can summarize the integration points and use cases of Kong and Redis into three main groups: For all use cases, Kong supports multiple…

Claudio Acquaviva

Implementing OpenTelemetry Observability with Kong Konnect & Dynatrace

ObservabilityApril 9, 2025

Observability has become critical to ensuring the effective monitoring of application and system performance and health. It focuses on understanding a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it produces in the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure. Unlike…

Claudio Acquaviva

Kong Konnect Observability and Analytics with Dynatrace

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PluginsApril 7, 2025

Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time…

Claudio Acquaviva

Kong Gateway Operator 1.5: Better Together with Konnect

Gateway OperatorApril 1, 2025

Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) is the most effective way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress. The latest release of the Kong Gateway Operator brings several updates that streamline integration with Kong Konnect and improve configuration and reliability. Below,…

Khuslen Khosbayar

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How to Track Service Level Objectives with Kong and OpenTelemetry

Kong GatewayFebruary 6, 2025

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…

Sachin Ghumbre

Protect APIs Against Injection Attacks with Content Inspection

API SecurityDecember 20, 2024

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…

Veena Rajarathna

The Ultimate CORS Crash Course

Guide to CORS basics
PluginsDecember 9, 2024

In today's interconnected web ecosystem, modern applications frequently need to communicate across different domains, making Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) a fundamental concept for web developers to master. This comprehensive guide explores CORS from its basic principles to advanced…

Kong

Exposing and Controlling Apache Kafka® Data Streaming with Kong Konnect and Confluent Cloud

Kong KonnectNovember 19, 2024

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…

Claudio Acquaviva

How to Manage Your API Policies with OPA (Open Policy Agent)

API ManagementOctober 18, 2024

APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps…

Sven Bernhardt

Orchestrating Konnect’s Great API Renaming with Kong Gateway Transformer Plugins

Kong KonnectSeptember 30, 2024

Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and…

Danny Freese

Elevating Integration Development: Kong's New Premium Technology Partner Program

PluginsSeptember 11, 2024

At API Summit 2024 , Kong announced its new Premium Technology Partner Program, a move designed to enhance the Kong ecosystem by promoting high-quality, reliable integrations and plugins that deliver real business value to customers. The objective? More top-tier integrations and plugins for…

Eric Gandhi

Reworked Plugin Queues in Kong Gateway 3.3

API GatewayMay 25, 2023

Starting with the 3.3 release, Kong Gateway includes a new implementation of the internal queues that are used by several plugins to decouple the production of data in the proxy path and its submission to a receiving server, such as a log server. We'll walk you through why queues are needed, why a…

Hans Hübner

Kong Konnect Adds Portal RBAC API, OAS Validation Plugin

Developer PortalMarch 1, 2023

Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect ? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more. You can now use Portal RBAC API…

Ishwari Lokare

Kong Konnect Supports Consumer Groups, Plugin Ordering, and More

API ManagementFebruary 1, 2023

Since our last Kong Konnect monthly update , we've been hard at work to deliver some more powerful features in Kong Konnect , including consumer groups, dynamic client registration using Curity and Auth0, plugin ordering, and streamlined Docker runtime instance creation. Read on to learn what's new…

Ishwari Lokare

Introducing Kong Dynamic Plugin Ordering

PluginsOctober 4, 2022

Viktor Gamov and Rick Spurgeon co-authored this blog post. Kong Gateway provides dynamic plugin ordering allowing administrators to control plugin execution order. Dynamic plugin ordering was added in Kong Enterprise 3.0 and the full technical reference is available in the official…

Viktor Gamov

How to parse and forward API logs with Kong plugins

API AnalyticsAugust 10, 2022

As more companies are undergoing digital transformation (resulting in a huge explosion of APIs and microservices), it's of paramount importance to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best experience for both users and developers. Kong Gateway is a lightweight API gateway…

Robin Cher
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