Plugin Ordering Reference

This document contains reference information about dynamic plugin ordering and plugin execution order in Konnect.

Dynamic plugin ordering

By default, plugins execution order is static. You can override the static priority for any Konnect plugin by using each plugin’s dynamic plugin ordering settings field. This determines plugin ordering during the access phase, and lets you create dynamic dependencies between plugins.

To configure this setting in Konnect, go to Gateway Manager > Plugins, and then select Configure Dynamic Ordering from the context menu next to the plugin you want to configure. From the plugin ordering settings, you can configure whether a plugin runs before or after another plugin.

Note: There are limitations to dynamic plugin ordering. Particularly, dynamic plugin ordering can’t coexist with consumer-scoped plugins, even if they are applied to entirely different service and route pairs, or are running globally. For more information, see Known Limitations in Dynamic Plugin Ordering.

Plugin execution order

The order in which plugins are executed in Konnect is determined by their static priority. As the name suggests, this value is static and can’t be easily changed by the user.

The following list includes all plugins bundled with a Konnect Enterprise subscription.

The current order of execution for the bundled plugins is:

Plugin	Priority
pre-function	1000000
app-dynamics	999999
correlation-id	100001
zipkin	100000
exit-transformer	9999
bot-detection	2500
cors	2000
jwe-decrypt	1999
session	1900
acme	1705
oauth2-introspection	1700
mtls-auth	1600
degraphql	1500
jwt	1450
oauth2	1400
vault-auth	1350
key-auth	1250
key-auth-enc	1250
ldap-auth	1200
ldap-auth-advanced	1200
basic-auth	1100
openid-connect	1050
hmac-auth	1030
jwt-signer	1020
saml	1010
header-cert-auth	1009
json-threat-protection	1009
xml-threat-protection	1008
websocket-validator	1006
websocket-size-limit	1003
request-validator	999
grpc-gateway	998
tls-handshake-modifier	997
tls-metadata-headers	996
ip-restriction	990
request-size-limiting	951
acl	950
opa	920
rate-limiting	910
rate-limiting-advanced	910
ai-rate-limiting-advanced	905
graphql-rate-limiting-advanced	902
response-ratelimiting	900
route-by-header	850
oas-validation	840
jq	811
request-transformer-advanced	802
request-transformer	801
response-transformer	800
response-transformer-advanced	800
route-transformer-advanced	780
ai-request-transformer	777
ai-semantic-prompt-guard	775
ai-azure-content-safety	774
ai-prompt-template	773
ai-prompt-decorator	772
ai-prompt-guard	771
ai-proxy	770
ai-proxy-advanced	770
ai-response-transformer	769
ai-semantic-cache	765
standard-webhooks	760
upstream-oauth	760
confluent	752
kafka-upstream	751
aws-lambda	750
azure-functions	749
upstream-timeout	400
proxy-cache	100
proxy-cache-advanced	100
graphql-proxy-cache-advanced	99
forward-proxy	50
canary	20
opentelemetry	14
prometheus	13
http-log	12
statsd	11
statsd-advanced	11
datadog	10
file-log	9
udp-log	8
tcp-log	7
loggly	6
kafka-log	5
syslog	4
grpc-web	3
request-termination	2
mocking	-1
post-function	-1000