Kong
Kong Gateway is the world's most popular open-source API gateway, built on NGINX and Lua, offering a plugin ecosystem for authentication, rate limiting, observability, and traffic management at any scale.
APIs
Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is an open-source, lightweight API gateway optimized for microservices, delivering unparalleled latency performance and scalability through a rich plugin ecosystem.
Kong Gateway Admin API
The Kong Gateway Admin API provides a RESTful interface for configuring and managing Kong Gateway instances, including services, routes, plugins, consumers, and certificates. It...
Kong Konnect API
The Kong Konnect API provides a programmatic interface for managing the Konnect cloud platform, including control planes, API products, teams, system accounts, and developer por...
Kong Mesh
Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh capabilities across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments. I...
Kong Insomnia
Kong Insomnia is an open-source API development platform for designing, debugging, and testing APIs. It supports REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket protocols and provides collec...
Capabilities
Kong API Gateway Management
API gateway management workflow for platform engineers to configure services, routes, plugins, consumers, upstreams, and TLS certificates on Kong Gateway instances.
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Extensible plugin architecture for authentication, rate limiting, logging, transformations, and custom business logic.
Define upstream services and routing rules to direct client requests to the correct backend services.
Create and manage API consumers with per-consumer authentication credentials and plugin configurations.
Built-in upstream load balancing with health checks, circuit breaking, and weighted target distribution.
Manage TLS certificates and SNI mappings for secure HTTPS traffic termination at the gateway.
Configure Kong Gateway declaratively using decK or the Admin API for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Centralized cloud control plane for managing multiple Kong Gateway instances, teams, and API products.
Enterprise service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy for mTLS, traffic policies, and multi-zone deployments.
Use Cases
Route, secure, and observe traffic to microservices with authentication, rate limiting, and request transformations.
Manage APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with centralized control through Kong Konnect.
Implement zero-trust security with mTLS, OAuth2, JWT validation, and API key authentication at the gateway layer.
Manage the full API lifecycle from design with Insomnia to deployment and monitoring with Kong Gateway.
Protect backend services with configurable rate limiting, request size limits, and traffic shaping policies.
Integrations
Deploy Kong Gateway as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller with CRD-based configuration for cloud-native environments.
Export gateway metrics to Prometheus and visualize API performance and health in Grafana dashboards.
Distributed tracing integration with OpenTelemetry for end-to-end request visibility across services.
Secrets management integration for storing and retrieving API keys, certificates, and credentials.
Send gateway logs, metrics, and traces to Datadog for comprehensive API monitoring and alerting.