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Kong Mesh 2.12: SPIFFE/SPIRE Support and Consistent XDS Resource Names

Sep 18, 2025 By Justin Davies In Kong
We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for resources in the Mesh. Read on to learn more!
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Multi-Cloud API and AI Infra Gets Smarter: Managed Redis for Kong DCGW

Sep 16, 2025 By Alex Drag In Kong
Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant challenge.
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Kong Named Across Eight Categories in 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports

Sep 11, 2025 By Heather Halenbeck In Kong
Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most comprehensive inclusion to date. This recognition spans the entire gamut of API platform capabilities: from API observability to vertical-specific healthcare solutions.
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API Management as a Central Security Hub

Sep 11, 2025 By Veena Rajarathna In Kong
While many organizations mistakenly believe a single tool can solve all their API security woes, the truth is far more complex. This blog post will dismantle the myth of the "silver bullet" and demonstrate how a comprehensive, defense-in-depth strategy, centered around a robust API management platform, is essential for truly securing your API ecosystem.
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Kong Plugins 101 | API Governance, Security & Rate Limiting Explained

Sep 11, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Welcome to Kong Plugins 101 – your introduction to applying governance, security, and control to every API call using Kong Konnect. In this session, we cover: What Kong plugins are and how they work Applying authentication, authorization, throttling, and rate limiting Securing services with advanced governance rules Real-world demo: setting a 5 calls per minute rate limit on an HTTPBin service route How plugins can be applied at different levels – global, service, route, or consumer.
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Unlocking API Analytics for Product Managers

Sep 9, 2025 By Christian Heidenreich In Kong
Meet Emily. She’s an API product manager at ACME, Inc., an ecommerce company that runs on dozens of APIs. One morning, her team lead asks a simple question: “Who’s our top API consumer, and which of your APIs are causing the most issues right now?” For Emily, that’s not a simple question at all. She doesn’t have direct access to these insights. Instead, she has to reach out to the engineering team.
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Developer Portal in Kong Konnect

Sep 4, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Unlock the full potential of your APIs and accelerate development with the Kong Konnect Developer Portal. This video demonstrates a complete developer journey, from discovery to monitoring, showcasing how a powerful dev portal can foster innovation and efficiency. In this demo, you will see: This workflow highlights how a centralized developer portal is crucial for managing the entire API lifecycle, enabling teams to build, deploy, and maintain applications faster than ever.
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Kong Acquires OpenMeter to Bring API and AI Monetization to the Agentic Era

Sep 3, 2025 By Augusto Marietti In Kong
Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter, the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI workloads. This is a huge milestone for Kong, and we’re excited about what this means for our customers and the future of how you build and scale revenue-generating digital products for the agentic AI era.
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