- Plugins: Extendable architecture for adding functionality to Kong and APIs.
- OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs.
- Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP or to disk.
- JWT: Verify and authenticate JSON Web Tokens.
- HMAC: Add HMAC Authentication to your APIs.
- ACL: Acccess Control for your API Consumers.
- IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests.
- Response-Rate-Limiting: Rate limiting based on custom response header value.
- API Analytics: Visualize, Inspect and Monitor API traffic with Galileo.
- Loggly Integration: Push your traffic data through your Loggly account.
- DataDog Integration: Easy Data monitoring through DataDog. DevOps will love it!
- Runscope Integration: Test and Monitor your APIs.
- Syslog: Logging to System log.
- SSL: Setup a Specific SSL Certificate for an underlying service or API.
- Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics.
- Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens.
- Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP, authentication or body size.
- Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP requests and responses.
- CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked.
- Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins!