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Tools, APIs, and guides to build, secure, and observe everything from a single API to an AI fleet.
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01 · MCP & tools

Tools for builders and agents

Integrate and automate across the Konnect platform from your IDE, terminal, or AI agent.

Skills Hub
RUN IN CLAUDEView other providers →
/plugin marketplace add kong/ai-marketplace
/plugin install kong-konnect@ai-marketplace
/reload-plugins

Everything in Konnect MCP, plus the context: debugging, Terraform/kongctl/decK authoring, and setup workflows.

AI Cookbooks

End-to-end recipes for agents on top of Kong AI Gateway.

~/deck
# Manage Kong Gateway configuration as code. Diff, sync, validate, and more.

 brew install kong/deck/deck
 deck gateway diff kong.yaml
~/kongctl
# Control Konnect resources from the terminal, declaratively or imperatively.

 brew install --cask kong/kongctl/kongctl
 kongctl get control-planes
~/inso
# Run API tests, lint OpenAPI specs, and generate config, all straight from CI.

 npm install -g insomnia-inso
 inso lint spec petstore.yaml

02 · Platform

Manage your entire connectivity layer

Securely connect, govern, and monetize AI, API, and event traffic across any model or cloud.

Applications

Dev Portal

Empower API consumers with self-service API documentation and developer tools.

Observability

Gain visibility into API performance and usage patterns with real-time analytics.

Catalog

Manage and discover services within the Kong ecosystem effortlessly.

Insomnia

Design, debug, test, and mock APIs locally, on Git, or cloud.

Metering & Billing

Meter and monetize the entire API and AI connectivity data path with usage-based billing and entitlements.

Kong Identity

Kong Identity enables you to use Konnect to generate, authenticate, and authorize API access.

Connectivity

Kong Gateway

A lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway.

AI Gateway

Connectivity and governance layer for modern AI-native applications built on top of Kong Gateway.

1.2

Event Gateway

A Kafka-native gateway built for governance, security, and cost-efficient use of Kafka.

Kong Mesh

Modern service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy, designed for simplicity, scalability, and security.

3.5

Ingress Controller

Kubernetes-native ingress, declarative APIs.

2.2

Operator

Deploy and manage Kong on Kubernetes using Kubernetes resources.

Konnect Platform

Platform auth

Secure the Konnect platform using SSO with any SAML and OIDC provider, or use built-in authentication.

Org management

Streamline and govern organization-wide API access and operations.

Audit logs

Detect and respond to potential security incidents when they occur.

03 · API specifications

OpenAPI specs for humans and agents

Browse and test the OpenAPI specs that power Kong's products and services.

All API specs →
v2

Konnect Control Planes

Manage the control plane entity in Konnect.

v2

Konnect Control Planes Config

Manage Kong Gateway services, routes, certificates, consumer, and global configuration within Konnect.

v1

Konnect Event Gateway

A proxy for the native Kafka protocol that sits between native consumers and producers, and backend Kafka clusters.

v3

Konnect Portal Management

Integrate portal management operations with automation systems (such as CI/CD pipelines) using this AIP-compliant API.

v1

Kong Identity Auth Servers

The Konnect API for managing Kong Identity auth servers.

v3

Metering & Billing

Konnect Metering & Billing API