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# Drive API adoption with a portal for developers and AI agents

Publish your APIs to a branded catalog for consumers to discover, review documentation for, request access to, and begin testing.

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### Elevate the developer experience and drive API adoption

Make API discovery, documentation, and access a frictionless experience with a highly customizable, strongly branded, and easy-to-use developer portal.

### Ship better APIs, faster

Publish APIs quickly and easily with modern API documentation, security, and access control to accelerate API usage and development.

### Streamline API development efforts and cut costs

Maintain a comprehensive and searchable inventory of your APIs as reusable assets to increase developer efficiency and reduce redundant development efforts.

### Power AI coding assistants and agentic development

Directly integrate the Konnect Developer Portal with your AI coding assistants and AI-powered IDEs so that agents have access to any APIs they need.

_Konnect Dev Portal_

## API discovery and onboarding

Build a great developer and agent experience with the only developer portal built to drive both human and agentic API production and consumption.

## 01/ Developer Portal MCP Servers

## Open up MCP-powered access to APIs in your developer portal

  • - Enable seamless, secure API access for AI agents and AI coding tools, like Cursor
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    Cursor can treat the Konnect Developer Portal MCP server as another MCP tool for agentic development

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    Power AI-coded apps with high-quality, production-grade APIs

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## 02/ API consumption and production

## (Coming soon) Build full-lifecycle agentic API workflows

  • - Configure Cursor to leverage the Konnect MCP server to manage multiple stages of the API lifecycle
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    When an API is developed in your AI coding assistant, publish it directly to your Konnect Developer Portal

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    Leverage Kong APIOps to ensure every AI-built API is properly documented and protected by the right policies

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## 03/ Unified API specs

## OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs in one portal

  • - Enhance the API consumer DevEx with comprehensive API documentation for synchronous and asynchronous communication protocols
  • - Adapt to evolving API standards and modern communication methods with a single renderer
[Build your API spec with our new AI documentation tool](https://create-api.dev/?utm_source=kong-blog )Build your API spec with our new AI documentation tool

## 04/ Modern UI/UX

## Make your Dev Portal a trusted destination for API discovery

  • - Drive portal usage across your organization by providing a polished, secure, easily navigable, and on-brand developer portal
  • - Help your developers discover APIs faster with advanced search and filtering functionality
[Learn More](https://developer.konghq.com/dev-portal/portal-customization/)Learn More

## 05/ Testing and Onboarding

## Ensure APIs are understood and adopted

  • - Allow API consumers to test API functionality directly in the browser UI and in [Kong Insomnia](/products/kong-insomnia)Kong Insomnia
  • - Provide easily accessible and intelligible documentation to accelerate API adoption
  • - Enable self-service signup and automate approval workflows for efficient app registration and onboarding
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_Konnect Dev Portal_

## Developer portal setup

Spend less time and budget on assembling and maintaining portals.

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## 01/ Customization

## Design a portal developers will love using

  • - Customize your developer portal using Markdown, and view edits instantly with side-by-side preview
  • - Leverage Kong’s powerful pre-built Markdown components (MDC) to quickly build a professional-looking developer portal and create custom MDC content for reuse across portal pages
  • - Modify every aspect of your developer portal with custom CSS to ensure you meet branding guidelines
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## 02/ Streamlined setup

## Create and publish API documentation

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## 03/ Multiple portals

## Tailor your portals to different developer audiences

  • - Create a well-curated DevEx with portals tailored to different audiences: internal, partner, subsidiaries, etc.
  • - Share APIs across multiple portals and apply granular access control with centralized RBAC in Konnect
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## 04/ Analytics

## Understand and improve your API business

  • - Track portal API usage metrics, including request volume, average error rate, and average latency, to identify high-leverage APIs
  • - Drive reusability and efficiency into your API program with insights into API usage
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## 05/ Secure onboarding

## Ensure secure self-service API access

  • - Integrate client registration for an API with your preferred identity provider with dynamic client registration
  • - Control portal and page access globally by making it public or private, and more granularly by restricting access to certain assets like APIs or individual documentation pages
  • - Set portal admins to manage core functionality like app registration
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## Related resources

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