Kong announced at API & AI Summit the evolution of Kong Konnect into an AI Connectivity Platform, with six launches mapped to what it calls the agent connectivity journey. Generally available now are …
Kong expanded its AI Gateway with new cost management capabilities that price AI interactions at the individual request level and attribute spend across models, providers, applications, teams, users, …
Kong previewed advanced AI observability capabilities in Kong Konnect that make the session, rather than the individual request, the unit of AI observability, according to Alex Drag, Kong's Head of Pr…
Kong released AI Gateway 2.2, adding native support for TypeSafe JEV as a provider and format, support for Skills APIs, and a new passthrough mode for custom or non-standard AI interfaces such as vLLM…
Kong announced Kong Context Management, generally available as part of Kong AI Management, which uses a "Code Mode" approach to give AI agents access to enterprise APIs, MCP servers, and data sources …
Kong introduced Kong AI Registry, an AI-native discovery layer that lets organizations register and govern models, MCP servers, agents, tools, resources, and skills so AI agents can discover and consu…
Kong introduced Token Vault for Kong Identity, a credential-brokering service that lets AI agents authenticate to Kong and have downstream credentials applied during authorized requests rather than st…
Kong introduced the private beta of Kong Webhook Engine, a capability that lets applications and AI agents register for business events such as HTTP POST and Kafka events and be invoked when those eve…
Kong released Kong Operator 2.3, adding full Kubernetes CRD support for Kong AI Gateway so teams can declare AI Gateway control planes, model providers, models, policies, authentication, and consumers…
Kong's AI Governance Gap Report, which analyzed millions of live production API calls, found that 99% of organizations lack AI-specific governance controls and 62% already spend across multiple models…
Kong introduced the Portal MCP Server, a governed, per-portal Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents discover and read Kong Dev Portal pages and API specs in code mode instead of scraping H…
Kong published an enterprise guide arguing that AI governance requires pairing oversight tools with runtime enforcement, with AI gateways applying policy controls directly to live LLM, API, MCP, and a…
Kong announced a rebrand, unveiling a new visual identity centered on an "electric lime" color and a new mascot named Karl, as the company repositions itself from an API connectivity company to an AI …
Kong and Straiker announced an integration that combines Kong AI Gateway's traffic enforcement with Straiker's agent-level security analysis, including Straiker's Agentic Kill Switch, which can revoke…
Kong Inc. has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for API Management, Q3 2026, with Forrester noting that Kong's gateway offers more policies for LLM governance than any other vendor in the eval…
Kong Inc. has made its AI Gateway 2.0 generally available, introducing principal-aware identity so that rate limiting, analytics, cost attribution, and access control can key on authenticated principa…
Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will reach End of Life on August 31, 2026, after which Kong will no longer fully support the version, followed by a 12-month sunset support period ending in August 2027. Ko…
Kong Inc. introduced Kong AI Gateway, a connectivity layer that manages all context calls in multi-agent systems, offering unified control, rate limiting, semantic caching, authentication, observabili…
A new engineering guide warns that multi-agent systems require early architectural decisions on observability, access control, trust boundaries, and failure models to avoid costly refactoring. The gui…
Kong Inc. introduced the Kong AI Gateway, a runtime for managing LLM traffic that standardizes interfaces across providers, centralizes credentials, and enforces token-based rate limiting, PII sanitiz…