In April 2026, Uber burned through its entire year’s AI budget by the middle of the month, driven largely by usage of Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor. Nothing was broken. No one misused the tool. Engineers were doing exactly what every team's been told to do: adopt AI, use it well, use it…
Introducing Portal MCP Server — a governed, per-portal MCP server (plus OAuth 2.0 connections) that lets agents discover and read Dev Portal content without scraping HTML, while respecting existing access controls. The post also recaps three related capabilities that already shipped: agent-ready…
Enterprise AI governance requires a composed stack connecting high-level risk and compliance oversight with real-time runtime enforcement. While oversight tools manage inventories, approvals, and evidence, AI gateways apply policy controls directly to live model, API, MCP, and agent traffic.…
We're pulling back the curtain on a project we've been working on for some time now: the next evolution of the Kong brand. You may have noticed some changes recently to our site, swag, or socials. But today it's official: we're announcing Kong's rebrand and introducing our new mascot, Karl. Without…
TL;DR: At Insomnia, we believe your tools should support you (and your agents!), not force you into certain ways of working. Over the last few months, we’ve been hard at work streamlining our interface so that it’s easier than ever for you to get started, stay organized, and work however you want…
Kong API Gateway 3.16 is here: runtime log-level tuning, per-consumer plugin configs, credit/usage-based request blocking with the new Entitlement Enforcement plugin, and FIPS 140-3 compliance for regulated industries - all built for live production debugging and governance, no downtime or custom…
For the sixth year in a row, we’re thrilled to announce that Kong has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management. Plus, Kong was positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis for the second year in a row. We feel this ongoing recognition reinforces our…
Kong has been named Great Place To Work Certified™ in the US for the fourth time. The certification comes straight from the people who’d know best: 95% of employees at Kong say it’s a great place to work, compared to 57% of employees at a typical U.S.-based company. Great Place To Work runs a…
Kong is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: API Management Software, Q3 2026 . Read the full report: The Forrester Wave™: API Management Software, Q3 2026 . APIs used to be about connecting systems to each other. Now they're also how AI agents connect to everything: tools, data, other agents.…
Regulated industries don't get to choose their cryptography standards; governments and auditors choose for them. If you sell software to a U.S. federal agency, a bank, a healthcare payer, or almost any organization operating under FedRAMP, HIPAA, or PCI DSS oversight, the cryptographic modules in…
As of Aug 31 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter its End of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
Kong and Straiker are partnering to help enterprises secure AI agents across the traffic, tools, and systems they already manage through Kong AI Gateway . The integration brings Straiker into the Kong ecosystem, giving customers a way to add deeper security visibility, testing, LLM runtime…
You've mapped the architecture. Your agents retrieve context from external tools, coordinate with other agents, and propagate mutations through your systems. The model logic is solid. An agent gateway is the control layer for traffic between agents, models, tools, APIs, and data sources. It applies…
In July, we announced Kong AI Gateway 2.0 in private beta and made a promise: freed from the API gateway release train, AI Gateway would ship at the speed of the AI ecosystem itself. We said you'd see the evidence quickly. Here it is. Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now generally available , and…
This September, Hollywood’s spotlight shines on Kong as we welcome our global partner ecosystem back for another action-packed Kong Partner Summit 2026 preceding API + AI Summit! Together, we'll explore how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation to production-ready, enterprise-scale…