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Centralize governance across runtime infrastructure for APIs, AI, event streaming, and microservices

Thread the API governance needle between platform governance and developer velocity.

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Reduce operational overhead and complexity

Provide a one-stop shop for API runtime provisioning that best fits each team’s deployment preferences — hybrid, multi-cloud, or serverless.

Strengthen your security and governance posture

Automate security guardrails for runtime deployment to ensure consistent API security best practices. 

Build a federated API platform

Federate access to API runtime infra so that distributed teams can use multiple different API gateways — while retaining central platform governance.

Extend your platform to AI, events, and microservices

Use Konnect to provision and manage AI gateway, event gateway, and service mesh infrastructure.

Why Kong Konnect for runtime management?

Multi-runtime, multi-protocol, multi-cloud.

Self-serve model

Empower developers with federated, self-serve API management

  • Set up gateway-paved roads so developers can self-serve provision gateways and other runtime infrastructure that suits their use case.

  • Deploy and host infra on your terms with support for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

  • Provision API gateway, event gateway, and service mesh deployments to fully govern all enterprise connectivity.

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Drive governance with central visibility and guardrails

  • Manage and observe all your control plane configurations in one place.

  • Enforce global policies across control plane groups so that all gateway deployments leverage best practices.

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Bake security guardrails into your API platform

  • Define gateway security standards through automated policy and plugin enforcement.

  • Enforce security at the user management level in Konnect with role-based access control (RBAC) to specific control planes.

  • Build your security posture with a wide array of security-focused Kong plugins, including JSON threat protection, OPA, injection protection, IP restriction, and more.

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Set up API observability across all runtime infrastructure

  • Leverage OpenTelemetry for real-time, contextual analytics.

  • View analytics from everything to org-wide performance to API-specific latency. 

  • Debug API and upstream service communication through active tracing.

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