The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
While more and more organizations are seeking to standardize and consolidate their API and AI infrastructure efforts in a unified platform , the reality is that many — especially large — organizations already have disparate API deployments across disparate API gateways. One common API gateway that…
Disruptive businesses are understandably rushing to deploy AI-native applications alongside traditional API infrastructure. However, managing observability across both domains (API and AI) while keeping a tab on performance visibility and operational control remains a pressing challenge. AI…
To unlock Kubernetes’ full potential, many enterprises are relying on three key building blocks available in Kong Konnect today: Together, these components extend Kubernetes from being just a container orchestration platform. They lay the foundation for Kubernetes to support the exposure,…
Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…
Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most…
Meet Emily. She’s an API product manager at ACME, Inc., an ecommerce company that runs on dozens of APIs. One morning, her team lead asks a simple question: “Who’s our top API consumer, and which of your APIs are causing the most issues right now?” For Emily, that’s not a simple question at all.…
Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter , the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI workloads. This is a…
It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been…
If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether…
We're excited to announce the general availability of Konnect Debugger, formerly known as Active Tracing during its tech preview phase. This powerful debugging and observability solution in Kong Konnect has evolved from a focused tracing tool into a comprehensive debugging platform. Konnect Debugge…
We're happy to announce the 3.5 release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). This release includes the graduation of combined services to General Availability, support for connection draining, as well as the start of deprecating support for some Ingress types as we help move customers to the…
We’re excited to announce the beta support for Mesh Manager in the Konnect Terraform Provider — a new tool that brings the power of infrastructure-as-code to Kong’s Service Mesh management platform. This provider enables engineering teams to declaratively manage Konnect Mesh resources using…
In March, we announced the public beta version of our reimagined Dev Portal. We set out to fully address the needs of the modern API consumer as well as the needs of the modern enterprise in promoting API adoption and reuse throughout the organization. We are excited to announce that the GA version…
We just GA’d the new Kong Konnect Developer Portal as part of our broader API discovery initiative , and it represents a fundamental rethink of what a developer portal should be. Built from the ground up on a modern tech stack, it delivers both the simplicity teams need to get started fast and the…
We're continuing our efforts to make Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) the preferred way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress — whether you’re managing from Kong Konnect or Kubernetes. With this latest release, we're: As ever, we’re continuously addressing issues…