# Kong Admin API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/kong-admin/  
**Provider:** Scalable Services — https://apis.io/providers/scalable-services/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/admin-api/

Kong Admin API is one of 14 APIs that [Scalable Services](https://apis.io/providers/scalable-services/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include API Gateway, Load Balancing, Microservices, and Plugins. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Kong Gateway's RESTful Admin API for managing services, routes, plugins, consumers, upstreams, and certificates. Kong is a widely deployed open-source API gateway for scalable API management.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/admin-api/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/Kong/kong

## Other Scalable Services APIs (12)

- [Envoy Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/envoy-admin/)
- [Istio API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/istio/)
- [AWS Lambda API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/aws-lambda/)
- [Prometheus HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/prometheus/)
- [Knative API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/knative/)
- [gRPC Reflection API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/grpc/)
- [Scalable Services ConfigMaps API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-configmaps-api/)
- [Scalable Services Namespaces API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-namespaces-api/)
- [Scalable Services Nodes API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-nodes-api/)
- [Scalable Services PersistentVolumes API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-persistentvolumes-api/)
- [Scalable Services Pods API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-pods-api/)
- [Scalable Services Secrets API](https://apis.io/apis/scalable-services/scalable-services-secrets-api/)

## Tags

API Gateway, Load Balancing, Microservices, Plugins

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