What is Kong?
Kong offers a comprehensive API platform tailored for modern, cloud-native architectures and the burgeoning AI landscape. It enables organizations to build, run, discover, and govern their APIs, services, and AI models through a single, unified interface. The platform includes tools like Kong Konnect for SaaS API lifecycle management, Kong Gateway for high-performance API routing and security, Kong AI Gateway for enterprise AI and LLM governance, and Kong Mesh for service-to-service connectivity.
Designed to enhance developer productivity and accelerate innovation, Kong supports the entire API lifecycle from design and testing with tools like Kong Insomnia, to deployment, security, and monitoring. It facilitates APIOps practices, allowing teams to manage API infrastructure as code within CI/CD pipelines. Kong aims to future-proof API strategies, enabling businesses to ship products faster, improve developer experiences, ensure security and governance, and leverage APIs, including those powering AI applications, as strategic assets.
Features
- Unified API Platform: Manage API gateways, AI gateways, ingress, and service meshes from one place (Kong Konnect).
- Kong Gateway: Enterprise-grade API gateway for security, reliability, and performance.
- Kong AI Gateway: Provides enterprise AI and LLM governance capabilities.
- Kong Mesh: Manages service-to-service communication across various environments.
- Kong Insomnia: Collaborative platform for API design, testing, and debugging.
- Developer Portal: Enables self-service consumer discovery of APIs.
- Service Catalog: Internal inventory for platform governance of all APIs and services.
- API and AI Analytics: Offers insights into API performance, consumption, and AI usage.
- APIOps Automation: Manage API infrastructure as code via Management API, decK CLI, or Kubernetes Operator.
- Plugin Hub: Extensive ecosystem of plugins and integrations for customization.
Use Cases
- Managing and securing synchronous APIs, event APIs, and AI APIs.
- Implementing AI governance and managing multi-LLM access.
- Building a centralized developer platform for API creation and consumption.
- Ensuring API security, reliability, and performance.
- Cataloging internal APIs and services for governance.
- Publishing APIs externally via a developer portal.
- Modernizing infrastructure from monoliths to microservices.
- Automating API operations using APIOps principles.
- Managing API connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Governing the entire API lifecycle from design to deprecation.
FAQs
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What is the SLA for Kong Konnect?
The target availability for Kong Konnect is 99.9% per calendar month. Dedicated Cloud Gateways under the Plus plan have a 99.95% SLA. -
What payment methods do you offer?
Credit card transactions (USD only) are supported for Konnect Plus. Konnect Enterprise customers can pay via invoice/PO. -
How are the monthly invoices calculated for Konnect Plus?
Invoices are calculated monthly based on hourly metered usage of resources like Control Planes, Portals, and Published APIs, prorated for the month. Usage-based metrics like bandwidth and API requests are also included. -
How can I change or cancel my Kong Konnect plan?
Enterprise customers contact sales. Plus customers can contact sales to upgrade to Enterprise or cancel via their Account page. -
Are there higher tiers of support available?
Yes, for Enterprise plans, Diamond (24x7 30-min SLA), Platinum (24x7 1-hour SLA), and Business (Regional Business Hours, 2-hour SLA) support tiers are available.
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