Kong Inc. and Solace have announced a strategic partnership that integrates Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform with Solace’s real-time data and event streaming capabilities. The collaboration delivers a unified control plane for governing, securing, and observing APIs, events, and AI services—enabling organizations to manage the full spectrum of data flows in the agentic AI era with consistent policies, lifecycle management, and end-to-end visibility.
Quick Intel
- Kong and Solace partner to combine API management with real-time event streaming under a single governance and observability layer.
- The solution unifies control over APIs, event streams, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with shared authentication, access policies, and observability.
- Addresses silos between event-driven and API-driven architectures that create governance blind spots, slow deployment, and increase operational risk.
- Solace provides high-performance real-time data movement and event-driven agentic AI orchestration; Kong delivers centralized API security, traffic management, and AI gateway functions.
- Quote from Ken Kim, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Kong: “Event-driven and API-driven architectures are no longer separate concerns.”
- Quote from Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace: “Real-time data is the lifeblood of modern, agentic AI. Together with Kong, Solace is removing the silos between events, APIs, and AI services that slow down modern organizations.”
- Solace joins Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program, gaining validation, dedicated engineering support, and access to Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway Enterprise features.
Enabling Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
Modern enterprises increasingly rely on agentic AI systems that require real-time, contextual data flowing seamlessly across operations. Fragmented management of APIs and event streams creates inconsistencies in security, compliance, and performance. By converging these under one platform, Kong and Solace help teams:
- Apply uniform policies, authentication, and access controls across all data interactions
- Achieve centralized observability to monitor APIs, events, and AI service calls in real time
- Accelerate deployment of AI use cases while maintaining governance and reducing risk
The joint architecture supports hybrid and multicloud environments, enabling organizations to scale intelligent, event-driven applications without operational silos.
Strengthening Kong’s Ecosystem
As part of Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program, Solace’s integration has been validated against Kong’s commercial releases. This ensures seamless interoperability and quality, while providing customers with a curated, enterprise-ready solution backed by joint support and roadmap alignment.
The partnership positions both companies to help enterprises build AI-ready data fabrics that support rapid innovation, consistent governance, and reliable performance in an increasingly agentic world.