# Feature Requests & Feedback **URL:** https://discuss.konghq.com/c/feature-suggestions/15.md?page=1 [Latest](https://discuss.konghq.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.konghq.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.konghq.com/tags.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [API documentation and monitoring](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/api-documentation-and-monitoring/170)
**Author:** [@ravi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ravi)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/api-documentation-and-monitoring/170 "2020-03-23T22:51:10Z")
Do we have any open source plugins/tools for API documentation and monitoring that can be integrated with community edition of Kong? --- ## [Plugin Idea: URL Shortener](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/plugin-idea-url-shortener/2104)
**Author:** [@aloisbarreras](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/aloisbarreras)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/plugin-idea-url-shortener/2104 "2019-12-31T12:30:14Z")
I work at a very large organization, and due to bureaucracy and legal departments, I often cannot use a lot of SaaS providers. In my current situation, my company cannot come to an agreement with any services like bit.l… --- ## [Kong SSL upstream healthchecks, client cert/key option](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ssl-upstream-healthchecks-client-cert-key-option/5137)
**Author:** [@england\_2022](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/england_2022)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ssl-upstream-healthchecks-client-cert-key-option/5137 "2019-12-11T22:42:48Z")
Feature/Request It would be cool to be able to specify a client cert+key here to say whether a target is healthy, this is in the situation where a client key and cert need to be provided to access the page eg: a curl t… --- ## [Admin API DB Health Enhancement](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/admin-api-db-health-enhancement/4939)
**Author:** [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/admin-api-db-health-enhancement/4939 "2019-11-25T19:29:56Z")
Right now there is a /status that returns a portion in the json of if the db is “reachable” , I assume that means if Kong is able to establish some form of connection to the database then it maintains the reachable: tru… --- ## [Global Plugins - Support "exclude" of services/routes](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/global-plugins-support-exclude-of-services-routes/4996)
**Author:** [@liorsamuni](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/liorsamuni)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/global-plugins-support-exclude-of-services-routes/4996 "2019-11-25T13:43:28Z")
Added the same feature request in github -\> --- ## [Support for encrypted values in Declarative Configuration](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/support-for-encrypted-values-in-declarative-configuration/4739)
**Author:** [@erikgb](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/erikgb)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/support-for-encrypted-values-in-declarative-configuration/4739 "2019-10-26T21:31:32Z")
I opened a GitHub issue a couple of weeks ago, but I understand that you prefer to have feature suggestions in this forum. User story As a Kong DB-less Cluster Administrator I can encrypt selective values (secrets) in t… --- ## [Documentation: clarify multiple authentication methods](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/documentation-clarify-multiple-authentication-methods/4535)
**Author:** [@eamonnmcevoy1](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/eamonnmcevoy1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/documentation-clarify-multiple-authentication-methods/4535 "2019-10-01T12:14:29Z")
Took me a while to understand the behaviour when I provide multiple authentication tokens. It would be more clear if Note 2 in this section included a link to the plugin execution order --- ## [\`none\` algorithm for JWT plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/none-algorithm-for-jwt-plugin/4212)
**Author:** [@Ray-Eldath](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Ray-Eldath)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/none-algorithm-for-jwt-plugin/4212 "2019-08-15T11:14:47Z")
In IETF’s document JSON Web Token Best Current Practices : That said, if a JWT is cryptographically protected by a transport layer, such as TLS using cryptographically current algorithms, there may be no need to apply … --- ## [Can we get a development container(s) for building plugins and running tests?](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/can-we-get-a-development-container-s-for-building-plugins-and-running-tests/1260)
**Author:** [@thetrav](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/thetrav)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/can-we-get-a-development-container-s-for-building-plugins-and-running-tests/1260 "2019-08-09T15:21:23Z")
I’ve been following: https://getkong.org/docs/0.13.x/plugin-development/tests/ to try and author tests for my plugin. I’m not able to use vagrant as the tests need to operate on my CI (concourse) which only allows conta… --- ## [Rate limiting config feature idea](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-config-feature-idea/4075)
**Author:** [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-config-feature-idea/4075 "2019-07-25T04:34:48Z")
Rate limiting idea that popped into my head tonight: Right now say I rate limit by consumer @ say 500 TPS and enable it once globally. Well say you have 100’s of proxies, and you don’t want to have to enable the rate l… --- ## [Ability to switch to a least-connection DNS balancer](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/ability-to-switch-to-a-least-connection-dns-balancer/3118)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Liberman](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Daniel_Liberman)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/ability-to-switch-to-a-least-connection-dns-balancer/3118 "2019-07-03T18:57:28Z")
Hello all! Is there any feature planned to give the user control by config of which dns balancer should be used by Kong? I understand that right now the solution is based on lua-resty-dns-client’s ring balancer, would t… --- ## [Integration with consul](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/integration-with-consul/3594)
**Author:** [@tzahimizrahi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/tzahimizrahi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/integration-with-consul/3594 "2019-06-04T21:13:50Z")
Hi, is there plan to add integration with Consul service discovery in terms of dynamically update upstream configs? --- ## [Add hide\_credentials option to JWT plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/add-hide-credentials-option-to-jwt-plugin/3540)
**Author:** [@Frans\_van\_Niekerk](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Frans_van_Niekerk)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/add-hide-credentials-option-to-jwt-plugin/3540 "2019-05-17T18:22:32Z")
Is there a specific reason why the JWT plugin does not have the hide\_credentials option like other authentication plugins? --- ## [Request-Transformer with X-Forwarded-\* unable to work](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/request-transformer-with-x-forwarded-unable-to-work/3293)
**Author:** [@caryyu](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/caryyu)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/request-transformer-with-x-forwarded-unable-to-work/3293 "2019-04-15T03:29:29Z")
I found out a logic from “kong/runloop/handler.lua”, and I let trusted\_id pass all(0.0.0.0/0,::/0), then using Postman send a request with X-Forwarded-\* header modification, which can work, but this plugin can’t, I doubt… --- ## [Multidatacenter Service and Routes Deployment](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/multidatacenter-service-and-routes-deployment/2963)
**Author:** [@flowdopip](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/flowdopip)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/multidatacenter-service-and-routes-deployment/2963 "2019-03-08T11:14:41Z")
Hi, Currently, my system is on 3 datacenters and we want to add more routes, but do some kind of canary to the routes. For example, I want to put /samples only available on DC1, do some smoke tests and after that deliv… --- ## [API Monetization](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/api-monetization/2879)
**Author:** [@flowdopip](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/flowdopip)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/api-monetization/2879 "2019-02-26T06:04:29Z")
Any plans around this topic? --- ## [OAuth 2.0 Authorization URL through Kong](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth-2-0-authorization-url-through-kong/2887)
**Author:** [@rucciva](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/rucciva)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth-2-0-authorization-url-through-kong/2887 "2019-02-25T08:02:37Z")
Currently when using oauth2 plugin with authorization code or implicit grant, a consumer application needs to redirect their user to an authorization url that is directly provided by api’s owner without going through ko… --- ## [More proxy/routing flexibility #IntoTheLua](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/more-proxy-routing-flexibility-intothelua/2859)
**Author:** [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/more-proxy-routing-flexibility-intothelua/2859 "2019-02-21T04:33:32Z")
As mentioned here: I would like to see the Kong experts try their hand at giving community/enterprise users more flexibility around how to proxy/route to destinations. Right now when it comes to gateway proxying we ar… --- ## [OAuth2 client\_credentials scope association for every application](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth2-client-credentials-scope-association-for-every-application/2819)
**Author:** [@svituz](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/svituz)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth2-client-credentials-scope-association-for-every-application/2819 "2019-02-13T10:29:31Z")
Hello. I would like to suggest a feature for OAuth2 plugin. When configuring a new application, I would like to specify some scopes that will be associated to the client when requesting a token. This feature would allow … --- ## [CORS plugin: Custom Http Method](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/cors-plugin-custom-http-method/2728)
**Author:** [@peaaceChoi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/peaaceChoi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/cors-plugin-custom-http-method/2728 "2019-02-12T03:16:06Z")
Kong is best api-gateway in the word. but kong-cors plugin doesn’t support custom method. (current cors version, only support “OPTIONS,GET,HEAD,PUT,PATCH,POST,DELETE”) restfulapi-design becomes more and more complicate… --- ## [DB tracing integrations](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/db-tracing-integrations/2642)
**Author:** [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/db-tracing-integrations/2642 "2019-01-18T15:44:35Z")
It would be really neat to see future integrations of Kong with sample rate tracing following open tracing standards(like the zipkin plugin) where we can see the C\* or Postgres latency on Kong proxy traffic calls. One th… --- ## [Other Kong's ngx.ctx in pdk](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/other-kongs-ngx-ctx-in-pdk/2510)
**Author:** [@rucciva](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/rucciva)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/other-kongs-ngx-ctx-in-pdk/2510 "2019-01-09T16:14:23Z")
In 1.0.0, i see that there are functions to interact with router, service, and consumer which is set by kong in ngx.ctx variables on runloop. Can we also get kong’s other ctx variables such as router\_matches, KONG\_PROXI… --- ## [Master secret key to validate JWT Token](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/master-secret-key-to-validate-jwt-token/2395)
**Author:** [@Amol\_Ghatol](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Amol_Ghatol)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/master-secret-key-to-validate-jwt-token/2395 "2018-12-07T11:22:37Z")
To validate the JWT token, jwt plugins decode the token to get the key and then read the secret key mapped to it from cache/database. We have a use case where one consumer have 52 million credentials(52 million records… --- ## [Documentation: Admin API Swagger Docs](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/documentation-admin-api-swagger-docs/861)
**Author:** [@dmportella](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/dmportella)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/documentation-admin-api-swagger-docs/861 "2018-11-28T07:17:45Z")
Hello I made this post on the github issues before here: https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/3307 Below is what I suggested. “I like to request if at all possible for Kong to provide as part of their admin api documen… --- ## [Trigger Circuit Breakers based on multiple factors](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/trigger-circuit-breakers-based-on-multiple-factors/2303)
**Author:** [@thefosk](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/thefosk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/trigger-circuit-breakers-based-on-multiple-factors/2303 "2018-11-20T23:44:04Z")
Not just response status, but also on latency, response size and so on. --- ## [SNI Wildcard-ing](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/sni-wildcard-ing/1669)
**Author:** [@Ross\_Penna](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Ross_Penna)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/sni-wildcard-ing/1669 "2018-11-15T02:25:17Z")
I’m not sure this belongs here, but I saw a previous issue https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/3238 directed a request be opened here. With TLS certificate wildcard-ing in general and wildcard host matching for Routes … --- ## [Lambda Plugin - Set extra options for response](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/lambda-plugin-set-extra-options-for-response/629)
**Author:** [@Adam\_Curtis](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Adam_Curtis)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/lambda-plugin-set-extra-options-for-response/629 "2018-10-15T20:02:58Z")
When using the Lambda plugin it would be great if we could set some custom response status, headers etc too. AWS API gateway has the ability to set the status code, body of the response and additional headers. Given thi… --- ## [Custom headers for HTTP Log Plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-headers-for-http-log-plugin/2077)
**Author:** [@biancarosa](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/biancarosa)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-headers-for-http-log-plugin/2077 "2018-10-10T14:03:45Z")
Hey guys. We’re currently sending logs to Splunk using the Kong Splunk Plugin we found on the hub, but this plugin changes the log format and we’d like to keep Kong’s log format. If we were able to send custom readers t… --- ## [When no origins match ensure Access-Control-Allow-Origin isn't present](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/when-no-origins-match-ensure-access-control-allow-origin-isnt-present/2024)
**Author:** [@djdmbrwsk](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/djdmbrwsk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/when-no-origins-match-ensure-access-control-allow-origin-isnt-present/2024 "2018-10-04T03:50:31Z")
Before creating a GitHub issue it seemed like a good idea to post here. We had a recent situation where one of our APIs set Access-Control-Allow-Origin equal to \* to allow our front-end team to locally develop against t… --- ## [Native websocket Support for Kong Plugins](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/native-websocket-support-for-kong-plugins/1963)
**Author:** [@jeremyjpj0916](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jeremyjpj0916)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/native-websocket-support-for-kong-plugins/1963 "2018-09-26T15:48:18Z")
Hello, Does Kong think it will be worthwhile to add: To its dependencies so developers can leverage local client = require "resty.websocket.client" By default? I suppose I can also add it in the dependencies of my… [Previous page](https://discuss.konghq.com/c/feature-suggestions/15.md) [Next page](https://discuss.konghq.com/c/feature-suggestions/15.md?page=2)