Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Observability refers to understanding a system’s internal state by examining its external outputs, like logs, metrics, and traces. Borrowed from control theory, it’s the ability to infer what’s happening inside a system without direct access. To visualize observability, consider the human body. We don’t need to open it up to understand its internal state. By measuring external signals like body temperature, heart rate, or blood pressure, we can infer what’s happening inside.

Cybersecurity is one of the top concerns for businesses today. Vulnerabilities make the news when they turn into expensive breaches. With the cloud so prevalent in today's digital landscape, much attention has turned to API security. Network attacks aimed at APIs increased by an incredible 681% in 2022. Considering the continued popularity of SOAP (simple object access protocol) APIs, it is now a top priority for global IT leaders to learn SOAP's security best practices.

Kong Konnect is Kong’s infrastructural SaaS solution. We run the control planes and API management applications for the data planes (API gateway and mesh) that are run by our customers to power their APIs. Some of the most critical traffic in the world goes through these data planes. The criticality of Konnect and therefore our customer’s uptime expectations of Konnect are very high.

In the process of developing software, designing and performing testing is a critical aspect of ensuring high software reliability, improving software quality, and deploying strong fit and function. The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle as a way of doing this with more accurate user data and post-production testing practices. Also known as “testing in production,” with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed.

In the process of developing software, designing and performing testing is a critical aspect of ensuring high software reliability, improving software quality, and deploying strong fit and function. The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle as a way of doing this with more accurate user data and post-production testing practices. Also known as “testing in production,” with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed.

Today — alongside the announcement of Kong Insomnia 10.2 — we're excited to introduce two new Kong Insomnia enterprise capabilities that will improve user management at scale across every organization. These new features are available to use for every existing enterprise customer, and they complement existing advanced user management capabilities like EE SSO and SCIM. Let’s take a look at each of the new capabilities.