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# Discover and govern APIs, services, and AI resources with Service Catalog

Gain broad and deep visibility into all your services and proactively enforce org-wide compliance.

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### Improve your security risk posture

Proactively mitigate vulnerabilities by auto-discovering shadow APIs within your organization’s IT infrastructure.

### Boost developer productivity and DevEx

Empower developers to collaborate and resolve issues faster by aggregating dispersed information about their services into a single system of record.

### Enforce compliance with smarter governance

Track and identify non-compliant services across the organization based on security, reliability, and engineering best practices with [Scorecards](#scorecards)Scorecards.

_Service and API Inventory_

## Simplify API and service discovery

Catalog your services and APIs with automated workflows, and quickly self-serve the insights you need.

## 01/ Service and API Inventory

## Keep an updated, comprehensive registry of all live services and APIs

  • - Get started quickly by pre-populating your catalog using out-of-the-box integrations with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh.
  • - Automatically keep your catalog up-to-date as it detects live services and APIs from integrations with Kong and Traceable.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/)Learn More

## 02/ Third-party gateway federation

## Automatically discover APIs managed by AWS API Gateway and others

  • - Ingest discovered APIs and centrally catalog them within Konnnect to build a single source of API truth.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/)Learn More

## 03/ 360° Service Overview

## Access critical information in one catalog

  • - Access an aggregated, chronological view of real-time events affecting your services, including pull request activity, incident status changes, dashboard monitor status changes, and more.
  • - Find key information about a service, including its owner, upstream/downstream dependencies, documentation, code repositories, on-call rotations, official Slack channels, and more.
  • - Use the catalog’s search functionality to find information about existing services.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/integrations/)Learn More
_Scorecards_

## Measure and enforce API and service compliance

Easily identify services out of compliance with organizational standards using Service Catalog Scorecards.

## 01/ Scoring Frameworks

## Build Scorecards that align with your governance initiatives

  • - Configure Scorecards using Kong-recommended best practices and industry standards for security, documentation, and service maturity.
  • - Customize Scorecard criteria to meet your organization’s specific requirements (coming soon).
  • - Apply Scorecards broadly across all or select services in your catalog, or use smart filters to target specific services by name, label, owner, and more.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/scorecards/#scorecard-templates)Learn More

## 02/ Clear Remediation

## Identify next steps to drive compliance

  • - View a breakdown of how each service scores against a Scorecard’s criteria.
  • - Drill into individual rules to see pass/fail status, service owners, and reasons for non-compliance.
  • - Notify non-compliant service owners directly to drive improvements.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/scorecards/)Learn More

## 03/ Quantifiable Compliance

## Automate compliance checks and gain insights

  • - Quantitatively track improvement in company-wide compliance.
  • - Stay on top of the latest criteria passes and failures with automated Scorecard checks on services.
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/service-catalog/scorecards/)Learn More

## Related resources

_Demo_
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The Perfect Balance: Developer Freedom Meets Standards Compliance

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The Perfect Balance: Developer Freedom Meets Standards Compliance

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New Enhancements to Konnect to Fuel API-Driven Innovation

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New Enhancements to Konnect to Fuel API-Driven Innovation

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See Service Catalog in Action

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See Service Catalog in Action

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