Konnect
The SaaS API platformIntroducing Konnect
Konnect, built on top of the Kong Gateway API gateway, streamlines the API lifecycle management process, empowering you to develop modern applications with enhanced speed, improved security, and greater efficiency. It uniquely combines a Control Plane, managed by Kong and hosted in the cloud, with the versatility of managing the Data Plane on your terms—either self-managed or through Kong, within your preferred network environment.
Konnect can help you with the following use cases:
- Easily manage Kong Gateway
- Catalog, share, and monetize APIs
- Achieve federated API management with multi-geo support

Konnect architecture

The Konnect platform runs in hybrid mode and provides several hosted Control Plane options to manage all service configurations. The Control Plane propagates those configurations to the Data Plane group, which is composed of Data Plane nodes (and in the case of Kong Mesh, proxies). The individual nodes can be running either on-premise, in cloud-hosted environments, or fully managed by Konnect.