# Unify the event streaming and API developer experience
Secure, govern, discover, and observe event streams in your API platform.
## Drive more ROI from event streams with an EDA-ready API platform
Build self-serve, paved roads for provisioning event API infrastructure. Developers can then expose event streams as event APIs — all governed by automated guardrails defined by the platform team.
Enforce encryption and advanced authorization policies for secure, consistent event production and consumption.
Publish event streams as secure, self-serve data products (as HTTP APIs or Kafka services) so developers, partners, and customers can discover and build on them.
## Why Kong Event Gateway?
Maximize the value of real-time data without adding complexity
## Monetize and productize event streams
- - Turn event streams into easy-to-use API products ready for any developer: internal, customer, or partner.
- - Deliver new streaming products and experiences faster, without needing every team to be eventing experts.
## Build secure, self-service express lanes
- - Federate access to self-service event API infrastructure so developers can instantly provision the API resources they need — either locally or in the cloud.
- - Ensure that self-service access doesn’t break governance and security policies through automated guardrails using APIOps and infrastructure as code best practices.
## Design elegant — real-time streaming architecture
- - Standardize event stream access, governance, and security.
- - Enforce common design patterns, simplifying integration and driving long-term architectural consistency.
- - Set your organization on the path to maximize real-time data value across current and future applications.
## Enforce consistent security across your API and EDA stack
- - Extend security controls to event-driven architecture for consistent enforcement of access, identity, and encryption policies.
- - Apply policies at the API platform layer, reducing surface area for attacks and minimizing risks hidden in custom security code.
## Build on top of self-service event streams
Discover event APIs and native Kafka data products in a single developer portal — all documented and accessible in a single API portal.
## Reduce infra footprint and Kafka costs
Replace redundant physical topics and clusters with virtualized topics and clusters, reducing your overall Kafka footprint and Kafka bill.
## Kong Event Gateway FAQs
Questions teams ask before opening up their event streams
What is Kong Event Gateway?
Event Gateway is the runtime governance layer for event-driven traffic. It applies the same control plane, policies, and developer experience that enterprises use for APIs to Kafka and other streaming systems, without replacing the brokers underneath.
Can I expose event streams as HTTP APIs or Kafka services?
Yes. Kong Event Gateway enables you to publish event streams as secure, self-service data products through HTTP APIs or Kafka services. This gives developers, partners, and customers ways to discover and use your real-time data.
How does Kong Event Gateway help secure event streams?
Kong Event Gateway extends access, identity, and encryption policies to your event-driven architecture. It enforces encryption and advanced authorization policies for event production and consumption, applying controls at the gateway layer to reduce reliance on decentralized security code.
Can developers provision event API resources without compromising governance?
Yes. Kong Event Gateway supports self-service provisioning of event API infrastructure locally or in the cloud. Platform teams define automated security and governance guardrails using APIOps and infrastructure as code practices, so developers can access the resources they need within those policies.
How can developers discover available event streams?
Developers can discover documented event APIs and native Kafka data products in a single developer portal. Bringing these resources together makes it easier for teams to find and access event streams they can build on.
How does Kong Event Gateway support governance across teams?
Kong Event Gateway helps standardize event stream access, governance, and security across your organization. Enterprise architects can enforce common policies to simplify integration and maintain consistency as more teams build event-driven applications.
Can Kong Event Gateway help productize and monetize event streams?
Kong Event Gateway helps turn event streams into API products for internal developers, customers, and partners. By making streams available as secure, self-service data products, it supports new streaming offerings without requiring every team to be eventing experts.
Can Kong Event Gateway help reduce Kafka infrastructure costs?
Kong Event Gateway supports replacing redundant physical topics and clusters with virtualized topics and clusters. This can reduce your overall Kafka infrastructure footprint and associated costs.