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OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 API Manager

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing an API call in WSO2 API Manager is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in an API invocation path, and debug them. WSO2 API Manager facilitates tracing API invocation paths and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This demo outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 API Manager, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to Elastic APM, when invoking a sample API.

API policies export and import support for WSO2 API Manager

WSO2 APICTL allows users to perform API related tasks without any UI navigations. As an improvement, now WSO2 APICTL allows users to do common API Policy and Rate Limiting Policy related operations without any UI accesses and accelerates the CI/CD tasks related to the Policy Management. From this feature, it now allows to list, export, import and delete operations on both the common API Policies and Rate Limiting policies in multiple ways in accordance with the commands & their flags introduced.

OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 Micro Integrator

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing artifacts of WSO2 Micro Integrator is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in a message flow, and debug them. WSO2 Micro Integrator facilitates tracing message flows and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This screencast outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 Micro Integrator, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to New Relic APM, when invoking a simple API.

Implementing a Hybrid Kong Konnect Data Plane in Amazon ECS

Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane, totally based on Kong Gateway, can be deployed across multiple environments including VMs, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Introducing Kong Enterprise 2.8 Long Term Support

Kong is proud to announce our first-ever Long Term Support (LTS) version of Kong Enterprise. Kong Enterprise 2.8 LTS will be supported up to March 25, 2025. LTS is an industry term for a software release that is supported for a longer period of time than other releases. LTS versions are popular because once users are on an LTS version, they can rest assured that this version will continue to receive technical support and security updates during the LTS period.

Extending SmartBear's Modern Developer Focused Observability Capabilities

Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.

What's New in Kong Gateway 3.2 and Kong Ingress Controller 2.9

Join us for our March User Call where we will show you all new features and updates in Kong Gateway 3.2 and Kong Ingress Controller 2.9. Tom Brightbill (Group Product Manager) will show you all new and exciting updates in Kong Gateway 3.2. In the new release, you will find new key functionality for everyone who operates Kong Enterprise in a hybrid environment, which further enhances its reliability.