Posts tagged “Product updates”
Showing 66 posts tagged with Product updates.
Oct 21, 2025
Sync secrets from external sources to ngrok with Kubernetes External Secrets
ngrok's Vaults can now pick up K8s secrets you already manage with with the OSS External Secrets project. Many third-party stores, one source of truth.
Aug 27, 2025
Secrets for Traffic Policy now in Open Beta
Manage sensitive values securely, reuse them across policies, and rotate them without editing policies—now open to everyone who's open to using the ngrok CLI!
Aug 19, 2025
Terminate requests to your endpoint with the close-connection action
While you can send a "no thanks" error code and response body, close-connection is perfect for situations where you'd rather just definitively close the door.
Aug 8, 2025
The ngrok Docker Desktop Extension: instant endpoints for your local containers
From Docker Desktop, start an endpoint for your local containerized APIs or apps, then apply rules for auth, routing, or rate limits without leaving the UI.
Jul 22, 2025
By Joel Hans
How to write policies with patterns that scale
Tips for making your Traffic Policy easier to read, debug, and evolve, without rewriting it every time your requirements shift.
Jul 10, 2025
Introducing http-request: Call your services directly from Traffic Policy
Trigger internal services, validate requests, log events, connect to AI APIs, and generally give your gateway a brain with the new http-request action.
Jul 8, 2025
Decouple policy from sensitive data: introducing Secrets for Traffic Policy
Secrets let you define and manage sensitive values in secure vaults—no more hardcoding or repetitive edits during regular credential rotations.
Jun 18, 2025
ngrok's Go SDK v2: simple, streamlined, more powerful
Embed a secure gateway into your Go app in one function call and run it anywhere—then make it soar by managing traffic with Traffic Policy.
May 22, 2025
By Joel Hans
Use the load balancing power of Endpoint Pools for canary deploys and beyond
Load balancing isn't just for scaling replicas—see what else Endpoint Pools can do, like canaries and risk-free (or at least less risky!) gateway changes.
May 20, 2025
By Alan Shreve
Introducing Endpoint Pools: Load balance anything, anywhere
With ngrok Endpoint Pools, load balancing is just starting endpoints with the same URL. Zero config. Elastic scale. Cross-cloud ready.
May 8, 2025
Block bad actors and mitigate DDoS attacks with JA4 fingerprints
Tired of spoofed headers? Use JA4 to fingerprint clients by their TLS handshake and take action with ngrok Traffic Policy.
May 5, 2025
By Joel Hans
Set variables in Traffic Policy for cleaner, reusable configs
Define lists, maps, and interpolated values inside your traffic management rules—then reference them anywhere—to make configs both simpler and more dynamic.
Apr 25, 2025
By Joel Hans
Tired of slow Kubernetes dev loops? Try local projection with bindings
Run your service on localhost, interact with it from any of your clusters—or all of them at once. ngrok makes the K8s dev loop feel magical again.
Apr 15, 2025
By Joel Hans
Deploy custom error pages with your logo, your messages, your way
You can't always control when your services crash, but with Traffic Policy and custom responses, you can build consistent and helpful error pages in minutes.
Jan 6, 2025
By Joel Hans
Protect services with a circuit breaker at your API gateway
Implement circuit breaking at your API gateway to prevent cascading failures and protect services, and without having to add more complexity to your APIs.
Jan 2, 2025
Introducing the Basic Auth Traffic Policy action
Secure your endpoints with ngrok’s Basic Auth Traffic Policy, compatible with both interactive and programmatic access to your APIs or apps, in a few minutes.
Dec 12, 2024
By Ryan Grant
Why and how we ‘stringified’ your API gateway policies
By replacing highly typed configs with raw YAML/JSON, we’ve eliminated a major UX papercut and given you feature updates “for free.” Let’s see what’s changed.
Dec 10, 2024
By 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.
Dec 4, 2024
By 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.
Dec 3, 2024
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.
Nov 21, 2024
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.
Nov 13, 2024
By 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!
Oct 29, 2024
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.
Oct 23, 2024
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.
Sep 12, 2024
By 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.
Sep 5, 2024
By 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.
Aug 29, 2024
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.
Aug 21, 2024
By 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.
Aug 19, 2024
By 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.
Aug 14, 2024
By 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.
Jul 24, 2024
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.
Jul 24, 2024
By 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.
Jul 23, 2024
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.
Jul 1, 2024
Traffic Policy Engine - What are CEL variables?
Harness the power of CEL variables in ngrok’s Traffic Policy Module to create dynamic, robust traffic filtering rules for your APIs.
Jun 13, 2024
By Russ Savage
ngrok Accounts Now Require a Valid Payment Method to use TCP Endpoints
In an effort to curb abuse, a valid payment method must be added to your ngrok account, including the free tier, before using TCP endpoints.
Jun 10, 2024
By Russ Savage
ngrok Network Traffic Inspector is now Generally Available with replay and additional retention
Capture, inspect, and replay traffic for up to 90 days from the ngrok dashboard with our Network Traffic Inspector, now GA.
May 16, 2024
By Joel Hans
Secure your API with JWTs and ngrok’s API Gateway
Secure your APIs with JWT authentication using ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway for enhanced security and seamless integration.
May 14, 2024
By Joel Hans
Developer experience in deployed API gateways: Kong vs. ngrok
Discover the simplicity of ngrok's API gateway and compare it to Kong for enabling developer productivity, ease of use, and rapid deployment capabilities.
May 2, 2024
By Russ Savage
Automate Bot User creation and management with our new APIs
ngrok now features a new Bot Users API endpoint that allows you to automate the creation, management, and deletion of Bot Users in your account.
Mar 27, 2024
By Russ Savage
ngrok Introduces Network Traffic Inspection - Available directly from the dashboard
Our new network traffic inspector provides network traffic observability for all endpoints. A modern PCAP in the cloud.
Mar 21, 2024
By Chad Tindel
Transform connectivity with ngrok: A strategic edge for modern enterprises
Learn how ngrok redefines digital transformation, offering strategic advantages in security, efficiency, and innovation for modern enterprises.
Mar 19, 2024
Introducing support for the Kubernetes Gateway API in the ngrok Kubernetes Operator
Get all the benefits of ngrok with Kubernetes: effortless configuration, environment independence, security with resiliency, and acceleration.
Mar 19, 2024
Drive application performance and stability with global rate limiting
Master application stability and performance with ngrok's rate limiting, ensuring fair resource distribution and preventing overload.
Mar 11, 2024
Introducing new domains for the ngrok global network
Discover ngrok's new domains: ngrok.pizza for free users and ngrok.pro for premium. Enable HTTP/HTTPS connections outside the HSTS preload list.
Feb 21, 2024
Introducing ngrok's Traffic Policy module
Discover ngrok's Traffic Policy module: manage traffic across platforms using CEL and JSON/YAML, with flexible configurations and advanced logic.
Feb 15, 2024
Introducing ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway: Shifting the paradigm of API delivery
ngrok's composable API gateway allows you to filter traffic, route to any number of upstream API services and more—all powered by our Traffic Policy engine.
Jan 17, 2024
By Blain Smith
Introducing end-to-end HTTP/2 support from client to origin server
ngrok now supports HTTP/2 to speed up the traffic between client and server
Dec 15, 2023
Get started with User Agent Filtering
ngrok users can now use the User Agent Filter module to filter traffic destined for upstream services based on the value of the HTTP user-agent request header.
Dec 7, 2023
Our next generation firewall project
Read about how we have improved our firewall and created an open-source Firewall Toolkit in the process.
Nov 30, 2023
Agent versions 3.1 and older are no longer supported
As of Jan. 15, 2024, free accounts using the ngrok agent version prior to version 3.2 will no longer connect to the ngrok service.
Oct 31, 2023
By Alan Shreve
Introducing Pay-as-you-go pricing for ngrok
New from ngrok: Pay-as-you-go pricing. Optimize costs by paying just for active endpoints, perfect for delivering apps and APIs to production.
Aug 28, 2023
Introducing Cloud Edges for all ngrok users
Announcing the addition of Cloud Edges to our free tier to deliver production apps and APIs on ngrok
Aug 16, 2023
Static domains for all ngrok users
All ngrok users can now claim one static domain for free. Your ngrok URL will not change on the free plan.
Apr 7, 2023
Product Updates: ngrok-go, ngrok-rs, OAuth & Webhooks for free
This month we've been busy with ngrok-go, ngrok-rust, making OAuth and webhook verification free for all plans, and traveling coast to coast and even to Europe.
Apr 6, 2023
New ngrok domains now available
Announcing new ngrok domains for free and paid users. Automatically route traffic to the nearest region, providing visitors with a faster experience.
Mar 29, 2023
Introducing ngrok-rs - safe and portable network ingress to your Rust apps 🦀
Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications.
Mar 16, 2023
By Sam Richard
Expanding ngrok's free plan with security in one line
We're adding our security features — OAuth and Webhook validation — to our free plan.
Mar 9, 2023
By Alan Shreve
Introducing ngrok-go: Ingress to Your Go Apps as a net.Listener
Announcing ngrok-go, for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. ngrok-go is the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.
Feb 28, 2023
By Russ Savage
How ngrok Actively Combats Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are one of the most common attacks on the internet, and ngrok is committed to actively trying to stop them.
Feb 20, 2023
New ngrok Global Network Domains coming soon
Announcing the release of our new ngrok Global Network domains for our free and paid users. Read to learn more about our upcoming Global Network capabilities.
Dec 21, 2022
ngrok December update: Dashboard SSO, Identity-Aware Ingress
Improved security with Dashboard SSO & Identity-Aware Ingress, new docs, community contributions to webhook security, and open-source firewall tools for go.
Nov 1, 2022
ngrok October update: no-grok, OAuth, and webhooks for all
Agentless ngrok, new integrations, new OAuth providers, and signed agent. Launch your tunnels faster with IT and security approval.
Aug 18, 2022
ngrok August Update: webhooks, community & trust portal
We've been busy working on webhook verification, the trust & security portal, and even our community efforts with Slack. Read on for more details!
May 18, 2022
By Alan Shreve
ngrok Security Disclosure, May 2022
Last week, we fixed a multi-tenancy bug in the ngrok dashboard’s caching layer. We have contacted all accounts affected by the bug directly.
May 3, 2022
By Keith Casey
Deploying ngrok in Production
In this post, we navigate some of the best practices, key considerations, and features provided by ngrok for production scenarios
