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[__# Eliminate day 2 headaches with Kong Gateway Manager
Reduce infrastructure sprawl with central runtime management. Built for API Platform teams, you can govern, manage, and secure your distributed Kong Gateway and Ingress controller deployments–all from a single pane of glass.
### Unified management
Manage all Kong Gateways and Kong Ingress Controllers from a single console with a few clicks. No need for a database to store configuration data.
### Robust traffic control
Centrally enforce plugins for security, transformation, traffic control, authentication, and more across your Kong runtimes.
### Guaranteed reliability
Ensure API infrastructure is reliable with a 99.99% uptime SLA.
### Effortless upgrades
Simply create new data plane nodes and terminate old ones for a seamless transition — the easiest and safest way to upgrade.
## Feature overview
Control service access, foster collaboration, and efficiently govern all of your runtime infrastructure.
## 01/ Federated API management
## Distributed data planes. Central control planes.
Get consistent configuration and policies at scale by organizing Kong Gateway data plane instances, services, teams, and environments into logical groups.
## 02/ Governance at scale
## Control plane groups
Empower platform teams to combine configuration from standard control planes. Provide application teams with flexibility, environment isolation, and ease of use while leveraging a single pool of Kong Gateway data planes.
## 03/ Access control
## Role-based access control
Enforce security at the user management level. Add new developers or partners to specific control planes, and enforce consistent role-based access policies.
## 04/ Security
## Built-in secrets management
Securely store and retrieve your sensitive data in Konnect, or with trusted third party vaults.
## 05/ Configuration management
## Consumer groups
Define rate-limiting tiers for specific consumers, rather than managing each consumer individually. Ideal for API productization.
## How it works
Manage your Kong Gateway control plane as a service. Scale quickly with multiple control planes and data planes in any environment.
Keep transactions private and secure with self-hosted data planes. Ensure team-based access with fine-grained role-based control.
### Collaborate
Empower teams to securely collaborate and self-manage gateways and services. Maintain centralized control and visibility over the entire ecosystem.
### Streamline management
Seamlessly onboard internal and external developers. Instantly adjust policies across control planes, services, routes, and consumers.
### Improve governance
Logically organize your data planes, teams, services, and consumers. Limit access to authorized personnel with role-based access controls (RBAC).
## Customer stories
## Rabobank
[Kong Konnect] supports our security requirements and our need to segregate workloads from different squads and applications — and Konnect does this very nicely.
Frank van Valkenburg
- Business Architect Integration
2.5B
API calls across 215 teams
over the next six months
## Mercado Bitcoin
Kong has enabled us to natively manage our microservices within our Kuberentes clusters while removing our legacy load balancing overhead . . . we have measured a 20% reduction in our overall infrastructure costs.
João G. Lisanti
- Head of Site Reliability Engineering
20%
Reduced TCO
## Seat Geek
We selected Kong Konnect to power our new API landscape as it was a good fit for the existing ecosystem and also leveraged a lot of our existing team knowledge on top of all the other features it delivers.
João Mikos
- Director of Engineering - Developer Acceleration
2.4B
Requests per month forecasted
## Related resources
_Blog_
[__Federated API Management: Balancing Agility and Governance
__](/blog/enterprise/federated-api-management)__Federated API Management: Balancing Agility and Governance
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