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Overview

By Inigo
Contact 3rd party for support: This plugin is developed, tested, and maintained by Inigo

Inigo offers complete visibility, control, and security for your production GraphQL APIs, enabling you to confidently adopt and scale GraphQL with the Inigo Kong plugin. Designed specifically for GraphQL APIs, this plugin provides:

  • Deep API analytics
  • Schema-based role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Performance and error monitoring
  • Dynamic rate-limiting
  • Prevention of breaking schema changes Inigo’s plugin gives you unique, in-depth insights into GraphQL usage, from granular field-level details to full query paths, along with overall server health and performance metrics. It enforces security policies, modifies or blocks malicious queries before they reach your GraphQL servers, and alerts you to any API issues.

How it works

The Inigo plugin can be enabled on any GraphQL API route. It syncs with a service configured in Inigo using the service token provided. The plugin enforces access control, rate limits, and other security policies configured in your Inigo service. Requests are batched and sent asynchronously to Inigo, ensuring no added latency to your API. The data is then analyzed in the cloud, matched against your GraphQL schema, and presented with full observability and insights into your API’s performance.

How to install

Custom plugins can be installed via LuaRocks. A Lua plugin is distributed in .rock format, which is a self-contained package that can be installed locally or from a remote server.

If you used one of the official Kong Gateway installation packages, the LuaRocks utility should already be installed in your system. Install the .rock in your LuaRocks tree, that is, the directory in which LuaRocks installs Lua modules.

  1. Install the Inigo plugin:

     luarocks install inigo-kong-plugin

  2. Download the Inigo library:

    Find the library for your architecture. Library file names start with inigo-. Download and copy the library into your kong run directory.

  3. Update your loaded plugins list in Kong Gateway.

    In your kong.conf, append inigo to the plugins field. Make sure the field is not commented out.

     plugins = bundled,inigo    # Comma-separated list of plugins this node
                                         # should load. By default, only plugins
                                         # bundled in official distributions are
                                         # loaded via the `bundled` keyword.

  4. Obtain and set the Inigo Service Token.

    Create a service and token in [Inigo](https://app.inigo.io]. Set the INIGO_SERVICE_TOKEN environment variable with the token’s value.

  5. Restart Kong Gateway:

     kong restart

Using the plugin

  • Go to the Inigo App to monitor your API observability.
  • Refer to the Inigo Docs for detailed information on feature usage and policy configurations.