The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… A Git Sync experience that fits your API testing workflow, not the other way around. Insomnia 13.1 now reads your .gitconfig, syncing the native git credentials you’ve already configured, so now you just need to connect once,…
As APIs grow across teams, keeping them consistent becomes difficult. Some APIs follow naming conventions and include clear descriptions, while others don’t. Over time, these differences make APIs harder to understand, review, and maintain. That is where API linting helps. Kong Insomnia has already…
TL;DR: Be sure to stay up-to-date with all things Kong Insomnia . Developers aren't writing every request by hand anymore. Claude Code, Codex, and other agentic tools have quietly taken over a job that used to belong to traditional API clients: making the request, reading the response, iterating.…
Kong Insomnia 13 delivers native Kong Konnect Gateway integration that lets developers query live gateway configuration directly from their terminal, so what they test is always what's deployed, with no manual spec imports and no stale collections. To get started for free, click here . You invested…
As API ecosystems grow, developers and platform teams often work in separate environments. Platform teams manage APIs, gateways, and governance centrally, while developers recreate those configurations locally for testing and debugging. Over time, this can lead to configuration drift, inconsistent…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… Have you ever…. If you answered yes to any of these above…. We have great news: Friend, the Insomnia x Kong Konnect integration might just be for you. Kong Konnect is where your API truth lives. Every service, spec,…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… In the last few years, Insomnia has reaffirmed its commitment to allowing developers to own their own tools, their workflows, and their data. With Insomnia 12.6, we’re taking this a step further: your collections and…
Whether you're drawn to Kong Insomnia's native OpenAPI support, its Git-based sync workflow, or its lightweight interface, migrating from Postman doesn't have to be a weekend project. Insomnia natively understands Postman's export format and can bring over your collections, environments, folder…
For enterprise teams evaluating API testing tools like Insomnia and Postman, understanding the real cost is critical. Postman’s recent changes and Insomnia’s alternative approach tell different stories. Let’s dive in. TL;DR: Free collaboration with Postman — a myth On March 1st, 2026, Postman…
We've been all ears. Your workflows clearly told us what mattered most: tabs that adapt to how you actually work, Git commits you can actually understand, and admin controls that don't require a manual to navigate. Insomnia v12.4 discards the friction so you can focus on what’s most important:…
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, love is in the air. And apparently, so are breakup emails. This isn’t just about one pricing change. It’s about a pattern. Some tools promise “free forever” to get you invested, watch you build workflows, and then change the rules. They know you’ve onboarded…
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12! Insomnia 12 TL;DR? This release is about making Insomnia smarter, faster, and more accessible. Whether you’re building for agentic AI or API endpoints, solo or with a team, Insomnia 12 gives you the tools to move faster. Get…
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12.3! Kong Insomnia 12.3 TL;DR? Your New Year’s resolution is probably something along the lines of “work smarter, not harder.” Our resolution is to make that actually possible. Insomnia 12.1 and 12.2 sharpened your tools, and now…
The first time you push an API to production, you’re excited it’s finally live. You’re relieved that you can move on to your next big project. You’re also nervous. You’ve tested as much as you thought you should, but somewhere in the back of your mind is a whisper of, “What if I missed…
API Fortress is a continuous testing platform for APIs. We've been a friend to Kong since the beginning. In this guest blog post, we explain how our company uses Kong to facilitate the process of virtualizing APIs. As more companies adopt microservice architectures and DevOps best practices, APIs…