Kong Konnect is a unified API management platform available as a fully managed service. It helps platform builders govern every API, service, and piece of critical API infrastructure in a unified SaaS console. Kong Konnect speeds up time to market by making APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable. It accelerates AI adoption by quickly integrating LLMs and models without writing new code for each one. It reduces operational overhead with a fully managed or hybrid API platform and automates robust security by implementing zero-trust security and developing operational insight into security-related events and usage patterns. Kong Konnect offers unified API management, Kong Gateway, AI Gateway, control planes, service catalog, API products, developer portal, and advanced analytics.

Features:

• Unified API Management: Reduce complexity with a single pane of glass. Use a centralized control plane to deploy and manage multiple gateways across service meshes, ingress, cloud, and Kubernetes providers. Maintain control over data planes in the network environment of your choice.
• Kong Gateway: Start fast with the most adopted API gateway. Powered by Kong’s blazing fast, lightweight, and flexible API gateway deployed in fully managed or hybrid modes. Optimize performance, traffic management, observability, and security to address your business needs.
• AI Gateway: Build more GenAI applications faster. Boost developer productivity to build genAI apps by providing a single API to consume various LLMs and automate cross-cutting concerns. Define and implement security and governance controls, to help ensure safe and responsible interactions with LLMs.
• Control Planes: Make federated governance a reality. Foster a Decentralized, template-based approach without sacrificing security. Achieve API consistency and compliance through automation and collaboration to onboard teams faster.
• Service Catalog: Access a comprehensive registry of all your services and APIs. Automatically discover all services and APIs in your organization and maintain an up-to-date record. Access composite information about your services, such as their code repositories, on-call rotations, CI/CD pipelines, and more. Track improvement in compliance with security and engineering best practices across the organization.
• API Products: Accelerate consumption of your APIs. Package API services into products for easier consumption. Manage API products, versions, and documentation — all through a single dashboard.
• Developer Portal: Seamlessly onboard developers. Browse, search, and consume APIs, and deliver a customized portal for application registration. Reference documentation, test endpoints, and register to create applications using specific APIs.
• Security: Get performance with security and compliance. Incorporate robust authentication, security, and traffic control policies using an extensive plugin ecosystem or build your own custom plugins. Group users to define access, and configure fine-grained control for each resource. Get multi-geo support for the control plane in the EU, US, and APAC.
• Kong Ingress Controller: Manage gateways in Kubernetes. Get a single-pane-of-glass view and control over API gateways deployed as Kubernetes Ingress. Easily publish and register K8s services to boost developer productivity.
• Advanced Analytics: Make smart moves with Advanced Analytics. Optimize API and AI gateway performance in real time. Analyze performance of any service, route, or application managed by Kong Konnect and reduce time to resolution.