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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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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