Kong

aid: kong
name: Kong
description: >-
  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.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- API Gateway
- AI Gateway
- AI Connectivity
- Agent Gateway
- Event Gateway
- MCP Registry
- Service Mesh
- LLM
- Kafka
- Konnect
- Open Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kong/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-18'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: kong:kong
  name: Kong Gateway
  description: >-
    Kong Gateway is the open-source, lightweight, cloud-native API gateway optimized for microservices, delivering
    low-latency performance and scalability through a rich plugin ecosystem. It is the data-plane foundation
    underneath every other Kong product.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/products/kong-gateway
  tags:
  - API Gateway
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/changelog/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Kong/kong
  - url: graphql/kong-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: kong:kong-admin-api
  name: Kong Gateway Admin API
  description: >-
    The Kong Gateway Admin API provides a RESTful interface for configuring and managing Kong Gateway instances,
    including services, routes, plugins, consumers, certificates, RBAC, workspaces, and event hooks. It is the
    programmatic surface operators use to configure the gateway directly or via decK declarative configuration.
  humanURL: https://developer.konghq.com/api/gateway/admin-ee/
  baseURL: https://konghq.com/
  tags:
  - Admin API
  - Configuration
  - Gateway
  - REST API
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/api/gateway/admin-ee/3.14/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kong-gateway-admin-api.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kong-service-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/kong-context.jsonld
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Kong/kong
- aid: kong:kong-konnect-api
  name: Kong Konnect Platform API
  description: >-
    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, identity and team management, analytics
    dashboards, audit logging, dedicated cloud gateways, CMEK, Event Gateway configuration, MCP Registry, Mesh
    Manager, metering & billing, notification hub, and search across the platform — over 20 individual API surfaces
    under one OpenAPI 3.1 document.
  humanURL: https://developer.konghq.com/api/
  baseURL: https://us.api.konghq.com/
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Konnect
  - Management
  - REST API
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kong-konnect-platform-api.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/konnect-platform/personal-access-tokens/
  - type: SDK
    url: https://github.com/Kong/sdk-konnect-go
- aid: kong:kong-ai-gateway
  name: Kong AI Gateway
  description: >-
    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, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral,
    HuggingFace and more), semantic caching, prompt firewalls and PII guardrails, automated RAG injection, token-level
    observability, MCP traffic governance, and Agent Gateway support for agent-to-agent (A2A) communication.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/products/kong-ai-gateway
  tags:
  - AI Gateway
  - LLM
  - MCP
  - A2A
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/ai-gateway/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/changelog/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Kong/kong
- aid: kong:kong-agent-gateway
  name: Kong Agent Gateway
  description: >-
    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 verification, real-time policy and prompt-injection
    inspection, per-agent cost allocation, and unified observability across LLM calls, MCP tool invocations, and A2A
    messages.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/kong-agent-gateway
  tags:
  - Agent Gateway
  - A2A
  - AI Gateway
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/ai-gateway/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/kong-agent-gateway
- aid: kong:kong-event-gateway
  name: Kong Event Gateway
  description: >-
    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 clusters, listener-level policies, identity-aware
    ACLs, mTLS, and per-topic quotas — bringing the same governance pattern Kong Gateway provides for HTTP/gRPC to
    real-time event streams.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/products/event-gateway
  baseURL: https://konghq.com/
  tags:
  - Event Gateway
  - Kafka
  - Streaming
  - Governance
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/event-gateway/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/api/konnect/event-gateway/v1/
- aid: kong:kong-mcp-registry
  name: Kong MCP Registry
  description: >-
    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 provides dynamic discovery for AI agents,
    governance gates on which MCP resources are approved for use, and centralized observability of tool usage, health,
    and failures.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/products/mcp-registry
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Registry
  - Konnect
  - Agentic AI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/kong-mcp-registry-tech-preview
- aid: kong:kong-context-mesh
  name: Kong Context Mesh
  description: >-
    Kong Context Mesh (launched February 2026, tech preview in Konnect) automatically discovers enterprise APIs,
    transforms them into agent-consumable tooling, packages them as MCP definitions with schemas and authentication,
    and publishes them to Kong AI Gateway with inherited access controls and runtime policy enforcement.
  humanURL: https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/introducing-kong-context-mesh
  tags:
  - Context Mesh
  - MCP
  - Agentic AI
  - Konnect
  properties:
  - type: Blog
    url: https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/introducing-kong-context-mesh
- aid: kong:kong-mesh
  name: Kong Mesh
  description: >-
    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 supports mTLS, traffic policies, service
    discovery, observability, and multi-zone deployments.
  humanURL: https://developer.konghq.com/mesh/
  baseURL: https://konghq.com/
  tags:
  - Envoy
  - Kubernetes
  - mTLS
  - Service Mesh
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/mesh/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/mesh/changelog/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/mesh/
- aid: kong:kong-insomnia
  name: Kong Insomnia
  description: >-
    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 collections, environments, mock servers, OpenAPI
    editing, Git Sync, and native vault integrations for developers and platform teams.
  humanURL: https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/
  baseURL: https://konghq.com/
  tags:
  - API Client
  - Developer Tools
  - Open Source
  - Testing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.konghq.com/insomnia/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/konghq
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.konghq.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/install/
- type: Blog
  url: https://konghq.com/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/changelog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Kong
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/Kong/kong
- type: SDK
  url: https://github.com/Kong/sdk-konnect-go
  name: Kong Konnect Go SDK
- type: SDK
  url: https://github.com/Kong/sdk-portal-js
  name: Kong Portal JS SDK
- type: CLI
  url: https://github.com/Kong/kongctl
  name: Kong Developer CLI
- type: Support
  url: https://discuss.konghq.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://konghq.com/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kong-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kong-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kong-finops.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kong-service-schema.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/kong-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Plugin Ecosystem
    description: >-
      Extensible plugin architecture for authentication, rate limiting, logging, transformations, and custom
      business logic on data-plane Kong Gateway.
  - name: Service and Route Management
    description: Define upstream services and routing rules to direct client requests to the correct backend services.
  - name: Consumer Management
    description: Create and manage API consumers with per-consumer authentication credentials and plugin configurations.
  - name: Load Balancing
    description: Built-in upstream load balancing with health checks, circuit breaking, and weighted target distribution.
  - name: TLS Certificate Management
    description: Manage TLS certificates and SNI mappings for secure HTTPS traffic termination at the gateway.
  - name: Declarative Configuration
    description: Configure Kong Gateway declaratively using decK or the Admin API for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  - name: Kong Konnect Cloud Platform
    description: >-
      Centralized cloud control plane for managing multiple Kong Gateway instances, teams, API products, and Dev
      Portals.
  - name: Universal LLM API
    description: >-
      Provider-agnostic LLM proxy across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral,
      HuggingFace and more, with semantic caching and token-level governance.
  - name: MCP Registry and Tool Governance
    description: >-
      Centralized directory of MCP servers and tools that AI agents can discover, with enforcement of approved
      resources only.
  - name: Agent-to-Agent Governance
    description: >-
      Kong Agent Gateway provides identity, policy, and observability for A2A traffic patterns inside AI Gateway
      3.14+.
  - name: Kafka-Native Event Governance
    description: >-
      Kong Event Gateway proxies native Kafka protocol traffic with virtual clusters, identity-aware ACLs, and
      quotas.
  - name: Service Mesh with Kong Mesh
    description: Enterprise service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy for mTLS, traffic policies, and multi-zone deployments.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: API Gateway for Microservices
    description: >-
      Route, secure, and observe traffic to microservices with authentication, rate limiting, and request
      transformations.
  - name: Multi-Cloud API Management
    description: Manage APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with centralized control through Kong Konnect.
  - name: Zero-Trust Security
    description: >-
      Implement zero-trust security with mTLS, OAuth2, JWT validation, and API key authentication at the gateway
      layer.
  - name: AI and Agent Connectivity
    description: >-
      Govern LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic with prompt firewalls, semantic caching, token budgets, and
      per-agent cost allocation.
  - name: Kafka Governance at Scale
    description: >-
      Apply per-topic identity-aware policies and quotas to Kafka traffic without rebuilding producers and
      consumers.
  - name: API Lifecycle Management
    description: >-
      Manage the full API lifecycle from design with Insomnia to deployment, monetization, and monitoring with Kong
      Konnect.
  - name: Rate Limiting and Traffic Control
    description: Protect backend services with configurable rate limiting, request size limits, and traffic shaping policies.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Kubernetes
    description: >-
      Deploy Kong Gateway as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller or via the Kong Operator, with CRD-based configuration
      for cloud-native environments.
  - name: Prometheus and Grafana
    description: Export gateway metrics to Prometheus and visualize API performance and health in Grafana dashboards.
  - name: OpenTelemetry
    description: >-
      Distributed tracing integration with OpenTelemetry for end-to-end request visibility across services, LLM
      calls, and A2A traffic.
  - name: HashiCorp Vault
    description: Secrets management integration for storing and retrieving API keys, certificates, and credentials.
  - name: Datadog
    description: Send gateway logs, metrics, and traces to Datadog for comprehensive API and AI monitoring and alerting.
  - name: Akamai
    description: >-
      Reference architecture for combining Kong AI Gateway with Akamai distributed compute for edge-terminated LLM
      traffic.
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/Kong/mcp-konnect
  type: MCPServer
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://developer.konghq.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]