Kong Usage Metrics Glossary

This Usage Metrics Glossary sets out the definitions of certain terms used in Kong Order Forms to indicate the applicable units purchased by the Customer under the Order Form. The applicable definitions are incorporated into and form part of the Customer’s Order Form with Kong with respect to its use of Kong products, unless otherwise provided in the Order Form.

Kong Konnect Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise

A “Gateway Service” is an API or service managed through Kong Konnect or the Kong Gateway.

“API Request" is a single request message sent to a Gateway Service.

Kong AI Gateway

"Model" means a unique large-language model, whether made available by a third-party or developed or modified by Customer, whose traffic is proxied through the AI Gateway within a one-hour period.

Please note:

1. Use of Gateway Services with Models or MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers is included at no additional charge. Use of Gateway Services with non-Model or MCP server traffic is not included and is separately chargeable.

2. API Requests are chargeable whether the traffic is or is not Model or MCP server traffic. If Customer has purchased AI Gateway and another Product that includes API Requests as a usage metric, API Request usage is aggregated across AI Gateway and such other Products.

3. “Gateway Service” and “API Request” have the meaning given them under Kong Konnect Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise.

Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways

“Cloud Service Provider” means Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Services (GCP), or other supported cloud provider, as applicable.

“Data Transfer” means data (expressed in gigabytes) egressing from a Dedicated Cloud Gateway. This includes data transferred to the Customer’s upstream services, to the end consumer, to other Customer services (such as logging, caching), or to any other services (such as to other internet or SaaS services); provided in each case that the Cloud Service Provider charges Kong for the data transfer.

“Dedicated Cloud Gateway” is a set of hosted Kong Gateway instances sharing the same configuration, deployed in a particular Cloud Service Provider region, and associated network resources (such as global DNS, load balancers, and underlying auto-scaling compute infrastructure).

“Dedicated Cloud Gateways API Request" or “DCGW API Request” is a single request message sent to a Dedicated Cloud Gateway.

Kong Konnect Event Gateway

“Virtual Cluster” is an isolated virtual environment for Kafka event streams managed through the Kong Konnect Event Gateway.

Kong Konnect Developer Portal

“Developer Portal” means a developer portal instance hosted in Kong Konnect.

“Published API” means an API that is exposed by or on behalf of the Customer via a Developer Portal.

Kong Konnect Service Catalog

“Governed Service” means a service listed in the Customer’s Service Catalog against which the Customer has applied a scorecard to evaluate the service against validation criteria.

Kong Konnect Advanced Analytics

“Advanced Analytics API Request” is an API Request whose metadata is ingested into the Advanced Analytics Product.

Kong Konnect Kong Identity

“Access Token” means an access token issued by the Kong Identity application for machine or user authentication and authorization to access an API.

Kong Konnect Metering & Billing

“Ingested Events” means the total number of events received and successfully processed by the Konnect Metering & Billing service (“Service”) during the applicable period. Ingested Events include:

1. all usage events transmitted directly to the Service; and
2. all metered events originating from Kong Gateways that the Customer has enabled with the Service.

For clarity, a single API request processed through a Kong Gateway, such as Kong AI Gateway, may generate multiple Ingested Events, each of which will be counted individually.

“Billing Volume” means the total United States Dollar (USD) value during the applicable period of invoices created through the Service by or for Customer. The value of a created invoice is included in Billing Volume when the invoice is: (a) marked as paid in the Service, whether by system integration or manual action, or (b) the invoice payment status is not reported to the Service within 60 days after invoice creation.

If an invoice is created in a currency other than USD, Kong will convert the invoice to USD when the invoice is included in Billing Volume using a foreign exchange rate from a third-party service selected by Kong.

Kong Konnect Mesh Hybrid and Kong Mesh

A “Zone” is a logical grouping of data planes. In Kubernetes environments one cluster equals one Zone. In the case of virtual machines (VMs), this will usually mean one virtual network, such as a virtual private cloud (VPC), or one physical network, such as a data center availability zone, equals one Zone.

Kong Insomnia

“User” is a natural person who directly or indirectly has access to a Kong Insomnia account.