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Kong Gateway Monetization

Zero-latency async sidecar for Kong. Meter AI agents and APIs without blocking the hot path.

HOW IT WORKS

Integration Architecture

ARCHITECTURE

Asynchronous log-phase sidecar buffering events in `lua_shared_dict`. Flushes are batched with zero impact on request latency. Fails open.

DATA BOUNDARY

What crosses the boundary

Every data point Aforo captures and every action it executes on Kong Gateway.

Ingestion (What We Receive)

01metricName

02quantity

03idempotencyKey

04metadata (gateway, latency, route)

Mutation (What We Execute)

01POST /consumers — Provision consumer identity

02PATCH /plugins — Update rate limit configuration

03Block via request-termination plugin

CONFIGURATION

Deploy in minutes

Drop this configuration into your Kong Gateway setup. Aforo handles batching, retries, and cost attribution.

kong.ymlyaml

plugins:
  - name: aforo-metering
    config:
      architecture: async_sidecar
      flush_interval_ms: 5000
      batch_size: 100
      detect_mcp_tool_calls: true
      fail_open: true

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