The ngrok blog

ngrok announces always-on GSLB Solution that improves application performance and resiliency without burdening ITOps.

Announcing the addition of Cloud Edges to our free tier to deliver production apps and APIs on ngrok

All ngrok users can now claim one static domain for free. With your free static domain, you no longer need to worry about broken links caused by agent restarts, or updating webhook providers / mobile apps with new URLs.

HashiCorp Consul provides a scalable and highly resilient platform for managing traffic across microservices. When paired with ngrok, Consul provides a robust and secure way for service-to-service communication within a Kubernetes cluster to communicate, while ngrok can seamlessly and securely provide public ingress to those services.

Keep your webhook verification settings around awhile by configuring them using an ngrok Cloud Edge. This post will demonstrate the process using the ngrok Dashboard as well as the ngrok-go library.

Today, we're excited to announce the ngrok ingress controller, our native and open-source Kubernetes (k8s) resource for adding public, secure, and high-available ingress traffic to your k8s clusters.

Adding auth to applications seems easy at the surface, but it can quickly become a source of frustration once you need to deliver a production-grade solution with features for end-users — i.e. self-service sign-ups, account recovery, and social auth for multiple platforms — and for security — i.e. audit trail, live session management, and authorization policies. In this post, I'll integrate ngrok to Auth0 and solve for these challenges.

Today, we’re excited to announce ngrok’s integration with Datadog Logs. You can now send logs of your ngrok traffic to Datadog with just a few clicks. Observability is a key requirement for delivering production apps. This release expands upon our logging integrations to include Datadog Logs alongside AWS CloudWatch Logs, AWS Kinesis, and AWS Firehose.

PagerDuty provides a shared secret with their webhooks so consumers can ensure the event's authenticity. Normally, verifying this secret requires a multiple step process implemented through your application code. This post will show how you can easily validate PagerDuty webhooks without making any changes to your code using ngrok's webhook verification feature.

While ngrok is useful to run along side your app, what happens when you embed it into your app and start activating OAuth, webhook verification, load balancing, and more?

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. Read on for details.

We’re excited to announce the release of new ngrok domains for free and paid users. These new domains automatically route your traffic to the nearest available region on the ngrok Global Network, providing you and your users with faster speeds and a smoother experience.

The best tools fit seamlessly with your existing tools so you can build better apps faster. We've been hard at work and are excited to share our progress.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-rs as the ngrok agent packaged as a Rust crate.

Managing your ngrok credentials across environments, projects, and teams doesn't have to be complicated. With the 1Password ngrok shell plugin, you can handle that in minutes.

We strive to take ingress off developers’ plates with our platform and that requires making security-focused features accessible and easy to use. Today, I'm proud to announce an important step in that direction: we're adding our security features — OAuth and Webhook validation — to our free plan.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-go, our idiomatic Go package for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-go as the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.

ChatGPT by OpenAI can answer questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, generate stories and poetry, and more. Read on to learn how to build a ChatGPT-like SMS chatbot using the OpenAI API and Twilio Programmable Messaging with Python.

Phishing attacks are one of the most common attacks on the internet, and ngrok is committed to actively trying to stop them.

Today we are announcing the upcoming release of our new ngrok Global Network domains for our free and paid users. Read to learn more about our upcoming Global Network capabilities.

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to play with Zoom Apps. Before I dug in, I assumed Zoom would give an app a little information about an active or scheduled meeting, a little more on the user profile, let you manipulate a meeting, and call it a platform. Frankly, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

The ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers are powerful. Using their built-in features, these microcontrollers can wirelessly operate robotics, motors, or sensors from simple web applications. Luckily, putting them online securely is easier than ever with ngrok.

Are you getting that dreaded "Unknown publisher" message in Windows? Read on to learn about properly signing your releases in simple, repeatable ways.

The last month has been busy at ngrok! We’re tremendously proud to announce we’ve raised $50M in funding to grow ngrok’s API-first ingress as a service platform for developers. We’ve also focused on improving security with Dashboard SSO and Identity-Aware Ingress, developer experience with new documentation, and contribute to the community with webhook security and an open source firewall toolset for go

Today, ngrok is growing faster than ever. To meet that increasing demand, we’re thrilled to announce our first-ever fundraising round of $50 million. We’ve raised this round to scale ngrok’s business across the board and to dramatically increase our investment in delivering new products for ngrok developers.

Today, we are adding additional visibility for users logging into your application through our edge. Now you can see your application users in the ngrok dashboard and view their identity details. In this blog, I'll explain why this feature is a huge win for security and how you can take advantage of it today.

Webhooks are the foundation of modern API development. They enable us to react to changes in our systems, an incoming text message, a successful payment, or that latest pull request no matter our stack. While webhooks are universal in concept, they are unstandardized API contracts with few organizations paying attention to their design, security controls, and overall operational experience.

Even the best developers tools need to integrate with the systems and processes that protect your organization. With Dashboard Single Sign-On, ngrok is one of them!

This month, we focused in two areas you asked for (a lot) and filled in some other bits and bytes to give you a hand: productivity features to launch your tunnels quickly with style and security features so you use ngrok in your org with IT and security approval.

ngrok is stronger when it's integrated with everything else in your stack. With our new Partnership Program, we're working to integrate it with everything out f the box to make your life easier.

Since our major release in April, we've been busy on all fronts from webhook verification, the trust & security portal, and even our community efforts with Slack. Read on for more details!

We’re excited to announce ngrok has been named one of the Top 100 Early-Stage Companies to Work for in 2022 by executive search firm Will Reed.

I've worked with OAuth 2.0 for over 6 years. It's always been a complex and challenging beast to fight until now.

We’re excited to announce that we have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 testing with no findings. Read more for more information.

Securing your environment is challenging in the best of times. With ngrok, you can centralize management to ensure policies are applied consistently, no matter the stack.