Kong Inc. , a major supplier of API and AI connectivity technologies, has declared a strategic alliance with Solace, the provider of a real, time data and agentic AI platform. As part of this partnership, Solace joins Kongs Premium Technology Partner Program and thus Solace makes its debut in the program. The two companies together offer enterprises the capability to manage, monitor, and secure APIs, events, and AI services all from a single control plane. This solution is designed to meet the increasing needs of real, time, AI, ready data infrastructures.
Nowadays, digital companies battle more and more with disconnected systems such as REST APIs, event streams, and AI data flows that typically lead to governance blind spots and decelerate innovation cycles. With the combination of Solaces real, time data movement capabilities and Kongs API and AI connectivity, the teams can now harmonize and manage the application lifecycles, policies, authentication, and access controls not only across APIs and events but also large language models (LLMs) and MCP servers from a single pane of control.
Solaces platform offers fast real, time data transfer, event governance, and event, driven agentic AI orchestration, and Kong provides the collection of API management, security enforcement, observability, and AI gateway functionalities via Kong Event Gateway and Kong API Gateway products. The joint offering makes sure that the entire spectrum of data interactions ranging from event streams to API calls to AI, driven operations is integrated into a fully observable, governed data fabric.
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Key Business Impact
• Unified Governance: Centralized policy enforcement across API and event domains reduces risk and simplifies compliance.
• Enhanced Observability: Full traceability across REST APIs, events, and agentic AI workflows improves performance insights and operational visibility.
• AI-Ready Data Fabric: Real-time contextual information streams support next-generation AI applications and automated decision frameworks.
Executive Perspectives
“Event-driven and API-driven architectures are no longer separate concerns,” said Ken Kim, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Kong Inc. “By bringing Kong and Solace together under a unified control plane, customers gain centralized governance, consistent security policies, and end-to-end observability across every data interaction from REST APIs to streaming events to AI agent calls. This is essential for organizations scaling in the agentic era.”
Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace, added: “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, helping to accelerate innovation and empower teams to confidently scale their real-time, AI-ready platforms.”
About Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program
The Premium Technology Partner Program of Kong aims to introduce world, class integrations and plugins that are validated and of high, quality into the Kong ecosystem. These innovations leverage the commercial products of Kong, such as Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway Enterprise. Premium partners get to enjoy various benefits such as engineering support, early access to product features, and collaborations that can drive business value. For the program customers, it means increased availability to a handpicked ecosystem of technologically advanced solutions supported by Kong.