
Kong Gateway Enterprise
Enterprise-grade Security, observability and scalability built on top of the world's most popular open source API Gateway
Meeting digital demand means ensuring that every connection is scalable, secure, and observable. Kong Gateway Enterprise expands on the lightweight, high-performance Kong Gateway Community to provide the full lifecycle API and microservices management capabilities needed to successfully run complex modern architectures at scale.
Scale Up and Down with Demand
Declaratively configure Kong to ensure service availability across Kubernetes and legacy platforms. Instantly apply policies for advanced routing and transformations to meet SLAs.
Secure Every Connection
Secure every transaction by default across platforms. Enable authentication for every service using OIDC, JWT, LDAP, and more. Support any OIDC-compliant IdP in the app registration process.
Observe Everything
Get a 360-degree view of service health and behavior. Use Kong Vitals analytics to monitor and understand service behavior. Capture telemetry and export to Datadog, Splunk, and more.
Enterprise Capabilities
Advanced Authentication
Secure every service and transaction with full support for OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Vault, mutual TLS and more
Enhanced Traffic Control
Ensure maximum performance and reliability with high availability rate limiting, advanced service routing, distributed caching and more
Governance by Default
Assign access privileges automatically during onboarding through workspaces and role-based access control (RBAC)
Intelligent Monitoring and Alerting
Autonomously monitor your API traffic with Kong Immunity to identify potential security breaches or performance issues
Vitals Analytics
Monitor the health of your deployment to ensure optimum performance and availability using Vitals Analytics and intuitive dashboards
Support for Emerging Protocols
Connect and orchestrate traffic policies for REST, gRPC, Kafka, and GraphQL services using the same Kong runtime and interface
Intuitive User Interface
Manage privleges, view dashboards, and implement policies across teams and environments with just a few clicks
API Productization
Enable API re-use across teams, partners, and customers via the customizable Kong Developer Portal with App Registration
“We put Agile, DevOps and CI/CD at the heart of everything we do, and we realized that we needed new tooling to match the new ways we wanted to build products and services”
Jason Walker,
Sr Enterprise Architect, Cargill
“With Kong, we knew that we would get something that would work perfectly with our technology today and set us up for where we want to go with microservices.”
Kanaderu Fukuda,
Senior Manager of Computing Platform, Yahoo! Japan
API Connectivity for the Cloud Native Era
Support Microservices, Mesh, and More
Kong’s flexible, lightweight runtime allows it to support any design pattern, including monoliths, microservices and service meshes.


Create a Single Source of Truth in Kubernetes
Manage containers as well as the full lifecycle of your APIs through a Kubernetes native interface that enables consistent operations across clouds and infrastructures.
Achieve Unparalleled Performance and Scalability
Minimize latency and maximize throughput with lightweight, high-performance Kong Gateway data planes. Use declarative configuration to create dynamic deployments that adapt to demand.
Extend Your Architecture for Any Use Case
Instantly apply out-of-the-box plugins from Kong’s robust ecosystem. Build bespoke plugins in Go or LUA to fit your unique requirements.
Become Technology Agnostic
Let developers choose the best technology to build a service by providing the ability to connect their APIs across any cloud, platform or protocol.

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