Kong Insomnia is an API development platform designed to accelerate API building through collaboration and security at scale. It provides an all-inclusive solution that drives efficiency across teams without hidden fees. Insomnia supports the full API lifecycle, including API design, mocking, testing, and debugging. It allows users to streamline API development with a design-first approach, using OpenAPI specifications to create, edit, and preview APIs. Native API mocking enables the creation of API mocks manually or auto-generation from API responses. Automated API testing allows for multiple requests to be tested within collections, and dynamic API debugging supports complex workflows and advanced tests. Kong Insomnia offers flexibility in data storage, allowing users to store data locally, via Git, or in the cloud with optional end-to-end encryption. It also provides governance features to mandate data locality and secure access to sensitive API assets. Enterprise-grade identity and security are supported through integration with third-party IDPs and SCIM. The platform promotes cross-functional collaboration with RBAC rules and real-time status indicators. Additionally, the Inso CLI tool enables CI/CD automation for OpenAPI specification validation and deployment to Kong Gateway, Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and Developer Portal.

Features:

• Intuitive API design: Streamline API development with a design-first approach. Use OpenAPI specs to create, edit, and preview APIs effortlessly.
• Native API mocking: Create API mocks manually from your collections and OpenAPI specs, or auto-generate them from API responses.
• Automated API testing: Automatically test multiple requests in your collections, with no limits on the amount of collection runs that you can execute.
• Dynamic API debugging: Use pre-request and after-response scripting to create complex workflows, advanced tests, and dynamically generated data.

Flexibility Store data locally, via Git, or in the cloud

• Create collections, design specs, tests, and more with 100% local storage, backups, and recovery.
• Leverage a third-party Git repository as the backend storage option for your API data.
• Easily collaborate in the cloud with native cloud sync (with optional end-to-end encryption). Governance Mandate data locality
• Mandate top-down storage settings for every member of the organization.
• Configure storage settings as local-only + Git, cloud-only, or all of the above.
• Securely manage access to sensitive API assets like collections, design documents, API tests, and more. Security Leverage enterprise-grade identity & security
• Integrate with any third-party IDP compatible with OIDC and SAML for a streamlined and secure SSO experience.
• Use SCIM with a third-party IDP to automatically initiate user provisioning or deprovisioning without having to manually create or remove user accounts. Collaboration Drive cross-functional collaboration
• Use RBAC rules to set up guardrails for team collaboration.
• Share Kong Insomnia projects, collections, and other API resources with your trusted team members.
• Reduce merge conflicts with a real-time status indicator. Comprehensiveness Full lifecycle API development
• Break down silos and consolidate tooling with a single solution for API design, mocking, testing, and debugging.
• Scale efficiently with unlimited collection runs on every plan, and unlimited API mocks requests on the Enterprise plan.
• Extend the platform to meet custom use cases with an open source plugin architecture and 350+ community-built plugins. Support SOC 2, enterprise support, and SLAs
• Get access to Kong's worldwide support and professional services teams, with enterprise-level agreements and SLAs.
• Access enterprise certifications like SOC 2 Type 2. Unlock CI/CD automation with the Inso CLI
• Use the Inso CLI tool to automate the validation and linting of the OpenAPI specifications using your existing Git workflows.
• Automatically deploy approved OpenAPI specifications to the Kong Gateway, Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and Developer Portal.