--- title: "Konnect" description: "The unified API platform. Konnect unifies and manages APIs, LLMs, events, and microservices with a single, centralized management plane." url: "https://dev-portal.dehaven.org/examples/konnect" image: "https://dev-portal.dehaven.org/_og/d/c_Ocean.takumi,title_Konnect,description_~VGhlIHVuaWZpZWQgQVBJIHBsYXRmb3JtLiBLb25uZWN0IHVuaWZpZXMgYW5kIG1hbmFnZXMgQVBJcywgTExNcywgZXZlbnRzLCBhbmQgbWljcm9zZXJ2aWNlcyB3aXRoIGEgc2luZ2xlLCBjZW50cmFsaXplZCBtYW5hZ2VtZW50IHBsYW5lLg,props_eyJ0aGVtZSI6eyJtb2RlIjoibGlnaHQiLCJjb2xvcnMiOnsicHJpbWFyeSI6IiMyRUE4QTYifX19,p_Ii9leGFtcGxlcy9rb25uZWN0Ig,s_TagTce0wLiJhcOXV.png" --- ## Konnect The unified API platform [Konnect Platform Documentation](#introducing-konnect) ## Introducing Konnect Konnect unifies and manages APIs, LLMs, events, and microservices with a single, centralized management plane, giving you consistent visibility and control across your entire API ecosystem. 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 and publish APIs - Achieve federated API management with [multi-geo](#) support [Start a free trial →](#) ![Konnect dashboard showing API analytics, control planes, and organization overview](https://developer.konghq.com/assets/images/konnect/konnect-dashboard.png) ## Applications Konnect provides several built-in applications that run on top of the Konnect platform to help manage, monitor, and secure your API ecosystem, as well as provide a customizable developer experience. Konnect Observability Konnect Observability is a real-time, highly contextual analytics platform that provides deep insights into API health, performance, and usage. [Explore analytics →](#) Dev Portal The Dev Portal is a customizable website for developers to locate, access, and consume API services. [Create a Dev Portal →](#) Catalog Catalog provides a centralized catalog of all services running in your organization. [Set up Catalog integrations →](#) Metering & Billing Metering & Billing provides a full system for tracking real-time usage, pricing products, enforcing entitlements, and generating invoices. [Set up Metering & Billing →](#) ## Connectivity 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. AI Gateway AI Gateway is a powerful set of AI features built on top of Kong Gateway, designed to help developers and organizations effectively adopt AI quickly and securely. [Learn →](#)[Get started →](#) API Gateway Konnect lets you catalog, connect to, and monitor the status of all Kong Gateway control planes and data plane nodes in one place. [Learn →](#)[Get started →](#) Service Mesh Create, manage, and view your Kong Mesh service meshes using the Konnect platform. [Learn →](#)[Get started →](#) Event Gateway Event Gateway is a proxy for the native Kafka protocol that sits between native consumers and producers, and backend Kafka clusters. It supports features such as cluster virtualization, authentication, mediation, and encryption of message payloads and keys. [Learn →](#)[Get started →](#) ### [Konnect data plane hosting options](#konnect-data-plane-hosting-options) - [**Serverless gateway**](#): Lightweight API gateways, where the control plane is hosted by Konnect and data plane nodes are automatically provisioned. - [**Dedicated Cloud Gateways**](#): Data plane nodes that are fully managed by Kong in Konnect. Each Dedicated Cloud Gateway runs on isolated infrastructure within Kong-managed environments in AWS, Azure, or GCP — offering the performance and security of dedicated infrastructure with the operational ease of SaaS. - [**Self-hosted**](#): Host your own data plane nodes on the supported system of your choice. ### [Tools to manage Konnect](#tools-to-manage-konnect) - [**decK**](#): Manage Konnect configuration in Konnect through declarative state files - [**Terraform**](#): Manage infrastructure as code and automated deployments to streamline setup and configuration of Konnect, Kong Gateway, and Kong Mesh - [**KIC**](#): Manage ingress traffic and routing rules for your services - [**Konnect APIs**](#): Manage all aspects of the Konnect platform, applications, and runtimes using APIs - [**Kong AI assistant**](#): Use Kong's AI assistant, KAI, to detect issues and suggest fixes. ## Security and user management in Konnect Konnect authentication Konnect offers multiple options for authentication. You can configure single sign-on with any SAML and OIDC provider or use built-in authentication. [Learn about Konnect authentication methods →](#) Teams and roles Create teams and roles within an organization and use them to distribute permissions. [Set up teams and roles →](#) Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) enhances privacy, security, and regulatory compliance by enabling customer-controlled encryption. [View the reference →](#) Konnect audit logging Collect and review audit logs for both the Konnect org and Dev Portal. [Learn about audit logging →](#) Kong Identity Kong Identity enables you to generate, authenticate, and authorize API access using Konnect. It implements OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect and supports plugins like OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 Introspection, and Upstream OAuth. [Start using Kong Identity →](#) ## References Konnect release notes Learn about new Konnect features. [View the changelog →](#) Konnect network and ports Konnect uses specific ports for communication and proxying. [Learn about Konnect ports →](#) Data plane reference Learn about data plane nodes in Konnect and how to manage them. [Konnect data plane reference →](#) API reference Explore the reference documentation for all Konnect APIs. [Konnect API references →](#) Konnect and Dev Portal audit logs [View →](#) Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) [View →](#) Using Debugger for DataKit [View →](#) Debugger spans [View →](#) Troubleshooting with Konnect Debugger [View →](#) Konnect API Errors [View →](#) Geographic regions [View →](#) [View More →](#) ## How-to guides Authenticate OpenAI SDK clients with Key Authentication in Kong AI Gateway [View →](#) Send batch requests to Azure OpenAI LLMs [View →](#) Control accuracy of LLM models using the AI LLM as judge plugin [View →](#) Control prompt size with the AI Compressor plugin [View →](#) Configure dynamic authentication to LLM providers using HashiCorp vault [View →](#) Guide survey classification behavior using the AI Prompt Decorator plugin [View →](#) Filter knowledge base queries with the AI RAG Injector plugin [View →](#) ## Support and account information Konnect compatibility See which browsers, software versions, tools, and applications Konnect is compatible with. [View the compatibility policy →](#) Kong vulnerability patching process Learn how Kong handles vulnerabilities or potential vulnerabilities in Konnect or third-party code, and how to report any security issues. [View the vulnerability policy →](#) Konnect account Learn about the different Konnect plans and account management. [View Konnect account info →](#) Konnect pricing Learn about Konnect plans and pricing. [View Konnect pricing →](#) ## Frequently asked questions How do I get a Konnect license? Sign up for a free Konnect account to get started. Paid plans and enterprise licensing can be arranged through the Konnect pricing page or by contacting Kong sales. Can I check my Konnect usage metrics? Yes. You can review real-time usage, requests, error rates, and latency in Konnect Observability, and query usage programmatically using the Konnect APIs.