From API Gateway to AI traffic management and event streaming — our certified Kong practice team helps enterprises design, secure, and scale their entire API ecosystem with confidence.
The world's most adopted API gateway — providing high-performance traffic management, security enforcement, and observability for every API across any environment.
Kong API Gateway (powered by the NGINX/OpenResty core) is the foundation of Kong's platform — trusted by thousands of enterprises to handle billions of API calls daily. It runs anywhere: Kubernetes, bare metal, VMs, or cloud — and extends through a rich ecosystem of plugins. Our practice covers the full lifecycle, from initial architecture and deployment through plugin development, performance tuning, migration from legacy gateways, and ongoing managed operations.
Designing scalable Kong topologies for on-premise, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud environments — including high-availability clustering, blue/green deployments, and disaster recovery planning.
Configuring Kong's security plugin suite — OAuth 2.0, JWT validation, API key enforcement, mTLS, IP restriction, bot detection, and OPA-based policy enforcement at the gateway layer.
Implementing advanced rate limiting (sliding window, token bucket), request throttling, circuit breakers, retries, and load balancing strategies to protect upstream services under load.
Building bespoke Kong plugins in Lua, Go, or Python PDK to implement business-specific logic — request transformation, custom auth flows, header enrichment, and audit logging.
Structured migration from legacy API gateways (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft, IBM DataPower) to Kong — including route mapping, policy translation, and zero-downtime cutover planning.
Integrating Kong with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Jaeger for full API observability — plus gateway-level performance profiling, caching strategies, and latency optimisation.
Purpose-built AI traffic management layer — routing, securing, and governing LLM traffic across multiple AI providers with cost controls, safety guardrails, and full observability.
Kong AI Gateway extends the Kong platform to address the unique challenges of enterprise AI adoption — managing traffic to OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, and private LLMs through a single, governed control plane. Our AI Gateway practice helps organisations build a secure, cost-controlled, and observable AI infrastructure layer that sits between applications and AI providers, enforcing policy, optimising spend, and protecting against AI-specific threats.
Configuring Kong AI Gateway to route LLM requests across multiple providers (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock) with model aliasing, fallback chains, and latency-based routing.
Implementing token-based rate limiting, per-team quota allocation, cost attribution by consumer, and spend dashboards — giving organisations full visibility and control over AI API costs.
Deploying prompt injection detection, PII scrubbing, content filtering, and guardrail policies at the gateway layer — preventing data leakage and adversarial prompt attacks across all LLM calls.
Implementing Kong's AI semantic cache plugin to serve cached LLM responses for semantically similar queries — significantly reducing token consumption and provider API costs at scale.
Building full observability for AI traffic — token usage by model and consumer, latency distributions, error rates, and cost-per-request metrics — surfaced through Grafana and custom dashboards.
Configuring intelligent load balancing across AI providers and model versions — with automatic failover, retry logic, and circuit breaking to ensure resilience when provider quotas or APIs fail.
Unified identity and access management for APIs — delivering OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SSO, and fine-grained authorisation natively within the Kong gateway layer.
Kong Identity brings enterprise-grade authentication and authorisation capabilities directly to the API gateway — eliminating the need for separate identity infrastructure or per-service auth implementations. Our practice helps organisations implement consistent identity enforcement across their entire API estate, integrating with existing IdPs (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Keycloak) and enforcing fine-grained access control through scopes, claims, and policy engines.
Configuring Kong's OpenID Connect plugin and OAuth 2.0 flows (auth code, client credentials, device flow) — with token introspection, refresh handling, and downstream token propagation.
Connecting Kong Identity to Okta, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Auth0, Keycloak, and PingFederate — mapping IdP claims to Kong consumer credentials and downstream service headers.
Implementing SSO across the API landscape and Kong developer portal — enabling developers and internal consumers to authenticate once and access all authorised APIs seamlessly.
Designing and automating API key provisioning, rotation, expiry, and revocation workflows — with self-service developer portal integration and audit logging for compliance.
Implementing scope-based and claim-based access control, OPA policy integration, and consumer group RBAC — ensuring each API consumer accesses only the resources they're entitled to.
Configuring mutual TLS between Kong and upstream services, managing certificate lifecycles with Vault or cert-manager, and implementing zero-trust network policies across the API mesh.
The unified API management platform — providing a centralised SaaS control plane to manage gateway deployments, publish API products, and drive developer adoption across the organisation.
Kong Konnect is Kong's flagship API management SaaS platform, unifying control plane management, API service cataloguing, developer portal publishing, and analytics in a single cloud-hosted product. It decouples the control plane (Konnect cloud) from data planes (Kong gateways running anywhere), giving platform teams centralised visibility and governance while preserving deployment flexibility. Our practice helps enterprises configure Konnect from the ground up, onboard teams, and establish scalable API platform operating models.
Configuring the Konnect organisation hierarchy — control planes, runtime groups, teams, and RBAC roles — aligned to your internal team structure, environment strategy, and governance model.
Deploying and connecting Kong data plane nodes (Kubernetes, VMs, cloud) to the Konnect control plane — with network security, certificate management, and multi-region topology design.
Building the Konnect Service Hub — organising APIs into versioned products, writing API documentation, tagging services, and configuring visibility rules for internal and external consumers.
Customising the Konnect developer portal with branded themes, self-service application registration, interactive API documentation, and developer onboarding workflows.
Configuring Konnect Analytics dashboards for API usage, error rates, latency trends, and consumer-level reporting — plus alert configuration and integration with external observability stacks.
Implementing Kong decK-based GitOps workflows to manage all Konnect configuration as code — enabling version control, PR-based reviews, automated drift detection, and CI/CD deployment.
Bringing Kong's API management capabilities to event-driven architectures — governing, securing, and observing Kafka topics, WebSocket connections, and async APIs through a unified control plane.
Kong Event Gateway extends Kong's platform to the world of event-driven architectures, enabling organisations to apply the same API management policies — authentication, rate limiting, routing, observability — to Kafka topics, WebSocket streams, and Server-Sent Events that they already apply to REST and gRPC APIs. Our practice helps enterprises integrate Kong Event Gateway into existing event streaming infrastructure, establish governance models for async APIs, and unify synchronous and asynchronous API management under a single platform.
Integrating Kong Event Gateway with Apache Kafka clusters — configuring topic routing, partition management, consumer group policies, and schema validation through the gateway layer.
Defining AsyncAPI specifications for event-driven interfaces, publishing them to the Kong developer portal, and enforcing schema compatibility and versioning policies across producers and consumers.
Implementing message routing rules, content-based filtering, event enrichment, and format transformation (JSON ↔ Avro ↔ Protobuf) within the Kong Event Gateway processing pipeline.
Applying Kong's authentication and authorisation plugins to WebSocket and Kafka connections — enforcing OAuth 2.0, mTLS, topic-level ACLs, and producer/consumer identity verification.
Managing long-lived WebSocket connections and Server-Sent Events streams through Kong — applying rate limiting, authentication, connection pooling, and observability to real-time API interfaces.
Advisory services for enterprises adopting event-driven microservices — covering event design patterns, topic naming conventions, schema registry strategy, and Kong Event Gateway integration architecture.
Our engineers hold Kong certifications and have delivered complex API platform programmes across financial services, telco, and public sector.
From API Gateway to AI traffic and event streaming — we cover every Kong product, ensuring a consistent and cohesive API platform across all protocols.
We integrate Kong with your existing observability, identity, CI/CD, and service mesh stacks — so the gateway fits seamlessly into your platform engineering practice.
Proven deployment accelerators, configuration templates, and GitOps blueprints mean faster production deployments with lower risk and predictable outcomes.