Welcome to Kong Docs

Find all the information you need to use Kong’s platforms and projects

Kong Konnect

An end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform that is designed for the cloud native era and provides the easiest way to get started with Kong Gateway

Konnect Overview

Get Started With Konnect

Konnect-compatible Plugins

Kong Gateway

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

Kong Gateway Overview

Get Started With Kong Gateway

Plugins

Admin API

Kong Mesh

An enterprise service mesh based on Kuma for multi-cloud and multi-cluster on both Kubernetes and VMs.

Kong Mesh Overview

Get Started with Kong Mesh

Kuma (open-source)

Key features

Service Hub

Build a comprehensive catalog of services to enable discovery, consumption, and management of every API across your entire architecture.

Overview

Dev Portal

Streamline developer onboarding with a self-service developer experience, letting developers discover, register, and consume published services.

Overview (cloud)

Self-managed

Analytics

View granular analytics with Analytics to monitor the health of environments and clusters. Gain deep insights into service, route, and application usage.

Overview (cloud)

Self-managed

Gateway Manager

Provision and manage Kong Gateway data planes and services in your environment and platform of choice.

Overview

API Products

Bundle and manage multiple APIs via API products to document, enable application registration and publish them to a Developer Portal for consumption.

Overview

Extensions & Tools

decK

Manage Kong Gateway declaratively using decK. Sync YAML or JSON configuration across Kong Gateway clusters, push configuration to a running cluster, detect drift, and create backups.

Overview

Get Started

APIOps with decK

Kong Ingress Controller

Implement authentication, transformations, and other functionalities across Kubernetes clusters with zero downtime.

Overview

Get Started

Insomnia

Streamline workflows by enabling users to instantly drop into Insomnia to design, document, and test APIs and microservices.

Overview

Plugin Hub

Use plugins to provide advanced functionality and extend the use of the Kong Gateway.