# Turn business events into agent action
Connect AI agents to the events happening across your business. Let agents register for the events they care about and invoke them automatically when those events occur — without building and operating custom event consumers.
## Build event-driven agents
Trigger agents automatically from the events happening across your business.
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Register agents for the business events they care about, and invoke them automatically when matching events occur.
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Deliver Kafka events to agents over HTTP, with the event context they need to begin reasoning.
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Move beyond prompts, polling, and custom integrations. No more Kafka consumers, Lambdas, cron jobs, or bridging services to wire agents to your event streams.
## One event. Many reactions.
Let every interested agent or application respond independently.
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Fan out a single event to multiple HTTP destinations, triggering multiple agents, applications, and workflows at once.
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Let producers publish once while consumers subscribe independently, adding new consumers without changing the event producer.
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Power agent, analytics, compliance, and operational workflows from the same event stream.
## Deliver events reliably to AI workloads
Decouple fast-moving event streams from agents that need time to think.
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Durably buffer events before delivery, so slow, bursty, or temporarily unavailable agents don't lose them.
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Decouple producer throughput from downstream processing speed, letting fast event streams and slower agents each run at their own pace.
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Accommodate longer-running reasoning and tool calls without backing up the event stream.
## Govern events from trigger to action
Extend Kong governance across the event-driven agent lifecycle.
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Pair Webhook Engine with Kong Event Gateway to govern event access, controlling which events agents and applications can consume.
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Trigger agents only after events pass through the governed event layer, connecting them to any HTTP application.
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Use APIs and MCP to govern the tools agents access after invocation.
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## FAQs
What is the Kong Webhook Engine?
The Kong Webhook Engine connects real-time business events to AI agents, applications, and workflows. It consumes events from Kafka-based event streams and delivers them to registered HTTP destinations, allowing downstream systems to react automatically when relevant events occur**.**
How does Kong Webhook Engine trigger AI agents?
AI agents register for the business events they care about. When a matching event occurs, Kong Webhook Engine delivers the event and its context to the agent over HTTP. The agent can then reason about the event and use APIs, MCP tools, and other enterprise resources to take action.
How does Webhook Engine connect Kafka events to HTTP applications?
Webhook Engine bridges Kafka-based event streams and HTTP destinations without requiring teams to build and operate custom Kafka consumers. It receives events from the event infrastructure, buffers them for reliable delivery, and sends them to registered agents or applications over HTTP.
Can one event trigger multiple AI agents or applications?
Yes. Kong Webhook Engine can fan out a single business event to multiple registered HTTP destinations. For example, a fraud event could simultaneously trigger an investigation agent, a customer protection agent, a fraud analytics application, and a compliance workflow.
How does Kong Webhook Engine and Kong Event Gateway work together?
Kong Event Gateway provides governance and control over Kafka event streams, while Webhook Engine turns those governed events into HTTP-triggered actions. Together, they provide a path from governed business events to AI agents and applications: govern the event, trigger the agent, and govern the resulting action.