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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.

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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
  • Cursor can treat the Konnect Developer Portal MCP server as another MCP tool for agentic development

  • 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
  • When an API is developed in your AI coding assistant, publish it directly to your Konnect Developer Portal

  • 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
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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
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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
  • 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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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

  • Easily create a brand-aligned private or public portal and publish your first API in mere minutes 
  • Upload an OpenAPI or AsyncAPI spec, then publish it to one or multiple portals with your chosen visibility settings and authentication strategy — all in a few clicks
  • Push auto-generated, modern, and interactive API documentation with the Kong-native API documentation tool
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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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