# Kong Developer

Discover Kong's tools, APIs, and tutorials to help you build, secure, and scale your services.


## Applications


### Dev Portal
Empower API consumers with self-service API documentation and developer tools
- [Overview](/dev-portal/)
- [All documentation](/index/dev-portal/)



### Observability
Gain visibility into API performance and usage patterns with Konnect's Observability
- [Overview](/observability/)
- [All documentation](/index/observability/)



### Catalog
Manage and discover services within the Kong ecosystem effortlessly
- [Overview](/catalog/)
- [All documentation](/index/catalog/)



### Insomnia
Design, debug, test, and mock APIs locally, on Git, or cloud
- [Overview](/insomnia/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=insomnia)
- [All documentation](/index/insomnia)



### Metering & Billing
Meter and monetize the entire API and AI connectivity data path with usage-based billing and entitlements.
- [Metering & Billing overview](/metering-and-billing/)
- [All documentation](/index/metering-and-billing/)




## Connectivity


### Kong Gateway
A lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway
- [Overview](/gateway/)
- [Install](/gateway/install/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=gateway)
- [All documentation](/index/gateway/)



### AI Gateway
Connectivity and governance layer for modern AI-native applications built on top of Kong Gateway
- [Overview](/ai-gateway/)
- [Install](/ai-gateway/get-started/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=ai-gateway)
- [All documentation](/index/ai-gateway/)



### Kong Mesh
Modern service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy, designed for simplicity, scalability, and security
- [Overview](/mesh/)
- [Install](/mesh/#install-kong-mesh)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=mesh)
- [All documentation](/index/mesh/)



### KIC
Kong's Kubernetes-native controller to manage API traffic for containerized apps
- [Overview](/kubernetes-ingress-controller/)
- [Install](/kubernetes-ingress-controller/install/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=kic)
- [All documentation](/index/kubernetes-ingress-controller/)



### Operator
Deploy and manage Kong on Kubernetes using Kubernetes resources
- [Overview](/operator/)
- [Install](/operator/get-started/gateway-api/install/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=operator)
- [All documentation](/index/operator/)



### Event Gateway
A Kafka-native Gateway built for governance, security, and cost-efficient use of Kafka
- [Overview](/event-gateway/)
- [Install](/event-gateway/get-started/)
- [How-to guides](/how-to/?products=event-gateway)
- [All documentation](/index/event-gateway/)




## Konnect Platform


### Platform auth
Secure the Konnect Platform using single sign-on with any SAML and OIDC provider or use built-in authentication
- [Konnect platform authentication](/konnect-platform/authentication/)
- [Konnect SSO](/konnect-platform/sso/)
- [Teams and roles](/konnect-platform/teams-and-roles/)



### Org management
Streamline and govern organization-wide API access and operations
- [Account management](/konnect-platform/account/)
- [Geographic regions](/konnect-platform/geos/)
- [All org management references](/index/konnect-platform/#org-management)



### Audit logs
Detect and respond to potential security incidents when they occur
- [Collect audit logs for Konnect](/how-to/collect-audit-logs/)
- [Collect audit logs for Dev Portal](/how-to/collect-dev-portal-audit-logs/)
- [Konnect audit logs reference](/konnect-platform/audit-logs/)




## APIs

- [Kong API catalog](/api/)

## Additional Resources

- [All Kong documentation sitemap](/sitemap/)
- [LLM-optimized documentation index](/llms.txt)