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Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Create a self-service app and API delivery platform with composable Traffic Policy

ngrok lets you manipulate traffic at multiple moments in the request lifecycle, allowing API developers to compose, not compromise, powerful API gateway rules.
December 10, 2024
12
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Manage traffic on a region-aware API gateway—without the networking

Build a region-aware API gateway with ngrok's Traffic Policy. Route requests, manage failover, and enforce regional compliance with simple YAML configs.
December 4, 2024
10
min read
Mandy Hubbard
Mandy Hubbard

Verify webhooks with ngrok’s new Traffic Policy action

Ensure secure, verified webhook interactions with ngrok’s Traffic Policy Action, enhancing protection and reliability for your endpoints.
December 3, 2024
5
min read
Scott McAllister
Scott McAllister

How can I geoblock with an API gateway?

Use geoblocking in your API gateway to control traffic by location, enhancing security, compliance, and performance
November 22, 2024
5
min read
Nijiko Yonskai
Nijiko Yonskai

Manage traffic at critical connection points with Traffic Policy phases

Learn how ngrok's phase-based Traffic Policy gives you granular traffic control in more places, from TCP connect through HTTP response, to take decisive action.
November 21, 2024
8
min read
Tammy Bailey
Tammy Bailey

Goodbye tunnels, hello agent endpoints

We've collapsed many flags into one for simplicity and unified naming conventions to flatten the learning curve. Join us in saying bye by updating your configs!
November 13, 2024
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Create a Traffic Policy ‘devenv’ with custom responses to build rules faster

By using the custom-response Traffic Policy action and a public endpoint, you can quickly develop new policy rules without standing up a whole infrastructure.
November 12, 2024
5
min read
Nijiko Yonskai
Nijiko Yonskai

Flexible and expressive traffic orchestration: introducing internal endpoints

Internal endpoints are secure, non-public endpoints that end with .internal, allowing you to route traffic based on headers, paths, subdomains, and more.
October 29, 2024
8
min read
Rachel Kolavo
Rachel Kolavo

How we built the Traffic Policy module and its actions

Traffic Policy is now the one true (and final!) way to shape your requests and responses. Let’s explore why we built it, how, and what it means for you.
October 23, 2024
15
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Drop-in API gateway policy examples for manipulating headers

With these ready-for-prod Traffic Policy rules, you can boost your security, give customers SLA metrics, and create geo-aware APIs in a few lines of YAML.
October 17, 2024
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

How nuanced rate limiting transforms your API and business

Master the dynamics of API rate limiting with ngrok’s gateway: a key to enhanced security, efficiency, and user satisfaction.
October 3, 2024
5
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

CliffsNotes your voicemails with WebSockets, Twilio, and OpenAI

Explore ngrok's WebSocket capabilities with a demo crafted for Office Hours, integrating with OpenAI’s API to create a secure phone call summarization app.
October 2, 2024
5
min read
Christian Hollinger
Christian Hollinger

How we built ngrok's data platform

At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.
September 26, 2024
15
min read
Scott M. Fulton III
Scott M. Fulton III

ngrok in production: Not just for testing anymore

Transform how you handle production traffic with ngrok, enhancing security and management for your applications beyond just testing.
September 18, 2024
4
min read
Team ngrok
Team ngrok

AWS PrivateLink vs. VPC peering vs. ngrok

Explore the pros/cons of AWS PrivateLink vs VPC peering for connecting AWS clouds securely—and whether ngrok could be a simpler and more flexible alternative.
September 17, 2024
5
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Deploy advanced HTTP traffic shaping with request variables and CEL

Explore ngrok's request variables and Common Expression Language to create flexible, powerful HTTP traffic shaping rules for your API endpoints.
September 12, 2024
6
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Introducing Office Hours: Learn about and build on ngrok together

Join ngrok's Office Hours: A monthly livestream for developers to learn, ask questions, and explore ngrok's capabilities beyond secure tunneling.
September 11, 2024
6
min read
Team ngrok
Team ngrok

Deploy a globally-distributed API gateway with DigitalOcean and ngrok

Deliver low-latency, resilient APIs without vendor lock-in or complex networking with ngrok’s global server load balancer, automatically deployed with your API.
September 10, 2024
7
min read
Sam Richard
Sam Richard

Visibility and limits: Keep track of your ngrok usage

Track your ngrok usage effectively with our dashboard, offering visibility into metrics like traffic, endpoints, and data transfers.
September 5, 2024
4
min read
Jonathan Stacks
Jonathan Stacks

Introducing Load Balancer support for ngrok Kubernetes Operator

Enhance Kubernetes operations with ngrok’s Load Balancer support, streamlining access and connectivity for services in your clusters.
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Battle against search and AI bots on your ngrok endpoints

Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.
Russ Savage
Russ Savage

Send ngrok Network Traffic Logs to Azure Monitor

Seamlessly integrate ngrok with Azure Monitor to forward network traffic logs for enhanced visibility and secure traffic management.
August 21, 2024
3
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Set up a reverse proxy with AWS and ngrok

Discover what a reverse proxy is and why they're essential for public-facing services, apps, and APIs, and learn how to set up a reverse proxy on AWS with ngrok
August 21, 2024
12
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Easier DNS configuration with subdomains and zones—and a switch

Using branded domains with ngrok? It’s never been easier or more error-proof to establish proper DNS zones for delegation and namespacing.
August 19, 2024
3
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

Developer's guide: Manage traffic with CEL expressions and connection variables

Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.
August 14, 2024
5
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

How to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) with ngrok’s API gateway

Mutual TLS (mTLS) with an API gateway can help you meet compliance requirements in industries that demand high security for data transmission.
August 13, 2024
8
min read
Scott McAllister
Scott McAllister

Redirect vs URL rewrite in an API gateway

Find out the difference between URL rewriting and redirection and how to utilize them to seamlessly migrate your API endpoints
August 8, 2024
8
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

APIOps and an API gateway: Get your development groove back

Discover how GitOps and APIOps can revolutionize your API gateway workflow, offering version control, easy deployment, and developer sanity with ngrok.
August 6, 2024
10
min read
Arianna Willett
Arianna Willett

Data at ngrok: A primer

Understand how ngrok handles your data with advanced security measures, offering clarity and control over your traffic flows and storage.
August 5, 2024
5
min read
Mike Coleman
Mike Coleman

MicroK8s and ngrok: Easy ingress at the edge

Leverage ngrok with MicroK8s for efficient, secure edge computing and easy Kubernetes ingress setup across your networks.
Russ Savage
Russ Savage

It’s about time: Format timestamps and time zones in the ngrok dashboard

Customize timestamps in your ngrok dashboard to streamline debugging and enhance event observability across time zones.
July 24, 2024
3
min read
Mandy Hubbard
Mandy Hubbard

How to build connectors to on-premise services for workflow automation

Streamline workflow automation by connecting on-premises services with ngrok’s secure, efficient connectors for various APIs.
July 24, 2024
8
min read
Nijiko Yonskai
Nijiko Yonskai

Traffic Policy Engine now supports dynamic configuration with CEL Interpolation

Enhance your traffic policy management with ngrok's CEL Interpolation, enabling dynamic, adaptable configurations for APIs.
July 23, 2024
3
min read
Joel Hans
Joel Hans

How ngrok’s GSLB elevates Linode-hosted SaaS performance and resilience

Discover how ngrok’s Global Server Load Balancing also brings multi-cloud and smoother application delivery to SaaS hosted globally on Linode VMs or k8s clusters.
July 17, 2024
10
min read
Salil Subbakrishna
Salil Subbakrishna

Traffic Policy support for the Kubernetes Gateway API

We have added a policy CRD, which can support traffic policies in the ngrok Kubernetes Operator, enabling traffic policy actions on the Gateway API.
July 3, 2024
10
min read