Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Workshop Automations 101: Introduction to API Platform-as-a-Service Concepts and Delivery Methods

Discover the fundamentals of delivering API management as a platform service with Kong Konnect. In this introductory workshop, we’ll explore essential concepts and methodologies that Platform Providers use to provide scalable, self-service API management capabilities to Platform Consumers.

AI Guardrails: Ensure Safe, Responsible, Cost-Effective AI Integration

As enterprises increasingly embed AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into their digital experiences, enforcing robust AI guardrails becomes paramount to safeguard users, protect data, manage operational costs, and comply with regulatory and ethical standards. Think of AI guardrails as essential controls: policy, technical, and operational layers carefully placed around your AI services to detect, prevent, and mitigate any unsafe, abusive, or unintended behaviors.

Announcing terraform-provider-konnect v3

It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider. In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been many changes in the last year, but there are some changes that we’ve been holding off on as they would break your CI/CD pipelines.

Custom Dashboards in Konnect Analytics Now Generally Available

If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether your investments are paying off. Dashboards are the tool people turn to in both cases.

Observe and Scale Mission-Critical Apps with Kong's API Platform + Dynatrace

Join us for a Dynatrace + Kong webinar where you’ll discover a complete OpenTelemetry-based observability solution, demonstrated through an end-to-end Kubernetes deployment: In this session, we’ll explore how to: Combining deep observability with robust platform and system management, this webinar will also show how Dynatrace and Kong work together to help teams deploy, operate, and scale mission-critical applications with confidence.

Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 3

The growth of APIs, teams, and services often leads to dashboard sprawl, making it difficult to find the information you need when you need it. This video introduces a powerful solution now generally available in Kong Konnect: using labels and taxonomy to organize your analytics dashboards. Learn how to structure your dashboards around common business concepts like team, service name, or environment. This organization, combined with Konnect's universal quick search, allows you to find any dashboard instantly, directly from the top search bar, no matter where you are in the platform.

Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 4

This video demonstrates how you can save time and maintain consistency by reusing existing reports to build powerful, customized dashboards. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to: + Add existing reports to your custom dashboards.+ Customize and tweak reports by updating filters to fit your specific needs.+ Adjust time ranges, including syncing with a global dashboard time.+ Quickly build and share insights across teams, turning dashboard creation from hours into seconds.

Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 2

Unlock the power of your API data with Kong Konnect's Custom Dashboard templates. In this video, we tackle the common challenge of not knowing which metrics are truly important for monitoring API service health and performance. Learn how Kong's decades of expertise are now baked directly into Konnect to provide you with best-practice dashboard templates. Dashboards from templates Say goodbye to starting from scratch! We'll walk you through the powerful new templates available in Kong Konnect that allow you to go from zero to a fully functional, insightful dashboard with a single click.

6 Reasons Why Kong Insomnia Is Developers' Preferred API Client

Picture this: you’re in the zone — debugging logic, writing endpoints, testing integrations. But suddenly you’re yanked out of flow: copy pasting cURL commands, flipping between environments, chasing down the right API keys, and juggling half a dozen tools just to make a simple change. It’s clunky and error-prone. And honestly, it’s not what you signed up for.

Intro to Advanced Analytics | Kong Konnect

In this video, Christian Heidenreich, Product Manager for Konnect Analytics, provides a look into Advanced Analytics in Kong Konnect. Advanced Analytics delivers unparalleled insights into your entire API ecosystem with real-time, context-rich data, empowering both technical and non-technical teams to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.

Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 1

From the high-stakes "war room" where you're troubleshooting an outage to the "boardroom" where you're presenting platform growth, API dashboards give you the critical visibility you need. In this demo, we introduce custom dashboards in Kong Konnect. We'll show you how to build a powerful, tailored dashboard from scratch in just a few clicks—without writing a single line of query language. See how our intuitive, user-friendly interface allows anyone on your team, from developers to non-technical leaders, to get the exact data they need.

The Roadmap for Reducing Technical Debt in 2025

Technical debt is a sneaky hang-up that organizations and teams often ignore until it becomes unmanageable. It creeps in slowly, undermines your team’s productivity, and builds up until your product is hard to maintain and scale. Software systems and development cycles are increasingly being driven and supported by AI, continuous delivery, and cloud-native environments, making it critical to adopt a clear strategy for identifying and reducing technical debt.

What is AIOps? Transforming IT Operations with AI

Picture this: It's 3 AM, and your phone erupts with alerts. Within minutes, you're drowning in a tsunami of notifications—hundreds of them—while your company's critical services hang by a thread. Your monitoring dashboard looks like a Christmas tree gone wrong, every light blinking red, and you have no idea where to start. Sound familiar?