Kong
Kong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on NGINX and Lua), Kong Konnect (the SaaS control plane), Kong AI Gateway (LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic governance with semantic caching, token budgeting, and prompt firewalls), Kong Agent Gateway, Kong Event Gateway (Kafka-native governance), Kong Mesh (service mesh on Kuma and Envoy), Kong MCP Registry (centralized directory of MCP servers and tools for AI agents), Kong Context Mesh, and Kong Insomnia (API design and testing). Together they unify governance across APIs, real-time event streams, LLM calls, MCP tools, and agent-to-agent communication for the agentic era.
APIs
Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is the open-source, lightweight, cloud-native API gateway optimized for microservices, delivering low-latency performance and scalability through a rich plugin ecos...
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, certificates, RBAC, ...
Kong Konnect Platform API
The Kong Konnect Platform API is the unified programmatic surface for the Konnect SaaS control plane. It exposes control planes, API products, developer portals, service catalog...
Kong AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway is the connectivity and governance layer for AI-native applications. Built on Kong Gateway, it provides a universal LLM API across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, ...
Kong Agent Gateway
Kong Agent Gateway is a capability of Kong AI Gateway (GA April 2026 with AI Gateway 3.14) that governs agent-to-agent (A2A) communication. It enforces agent identity verificati...
Kong Event Gateway
Kong Event Gateway is a Kafka-native gateway that proxies the native Kafka protocol between producers, consumers, and backend clusters. It governs Kafka traffic through virtual ...
Kong MCP Registry
Kong MCP Registry (launched February 2026) is an enterprise directory inside Kong Konnect for registering, discovering, and governing MCP servers and AI-native tools. It provide...
Kong Context Mesh
Kong Context Mesh (launched February 2026, tech preview in Konnect) automatically discovers enterprise APIs, transforms them into agent-consumable tooling, packages them as MCP ...
Kong Mesh
Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh capabilities across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments. It suppo...
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...
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FinOps
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FINOPSFeatures
Extensible plugin architecture for authentication, rate limiting, logging, transformations, and custom business logic on data-plane Kong Gateway.
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, API products, and Dev Portals.
Provider-agnostic LLM proxy across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral, HuggingFace and more, with semantic caching and token-level governance.
Centralized directory of MCP servers and tools that AI agents can discover, with enforcement of approved resources only.
Kong Agent Gateway provides identity, policy, and observability for A2A traffic patterns inside AI Gateway 3.14+.
Kong Event Gateway proxies native Kafka protocol traffic with virtual clusters, identity-aware ACLs, and quotas.
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.
Govern LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic with prompt firewalls, semantic caching, token budgets, and per-agent cost allocation.
Apply per-topic identity-aware policies and quotas to Kafka traffic without rebuilding producers and consumers.
Manage the full API lifecycle from design with Insomnia to deployment, monetization, and monitoring with Kong Konnect.
Protect backend services with configurable rate limiting, request size limits, and traffic shaping policies.
Integrations
Deploy Kong Gateway as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller or via the Kong Operator, 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, LLM calls, and A2A traffic.
Secrets management integration for storing and retrieving API keys, certificates, and credentials.
Send gateway logs, metrics, and traces to Datadog for comprehensive API and AI monitoring and alerting.
Reference architecture for combining Kong AI Gateway with Akamai distributed compute for edge-terminated LLM traffic.