Kong adds AI cost, identity and observability controls to Konnect
Kong’s AI Management expansion brings AI Registry, Token Vault, cost management and session-level observability into the Konnect control plane.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- AI Registry governs an inventory of models, agents, MCP servers and tools.
- Token Vault brokers downstream credentials at runtime.
- Observability traces behavior, latency, errors and cost across sessions.
What is changing?
Kong expanded the AI Management layer in Kong Konnect on November 4. The update includes AI Registry, a governed inventory for models, agents, MCP servers and tools; AI Gateway 2.3; and Kong Identity, which connects human, application and agent identities to a shared authorization framework.
Kong Token Vault brokers authorized downstream credentials at runtime instead of requiring agents to hold persistent credentials. AI Cost Management links consumption to teams, users, applications, agents and business activities, supporting budgets, showback and chargeback.
Advanced AI Observability is designed to trace sessions across models, tools, agents, MCP interactions and policies while examining behavior, latency, errors and cost. Kong brings these capabilities together in Konnect’s common control plane.
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Source date: 4 November 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 4 Nov 2026, 19:07 (Istanbul, UTC+3).
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