# How to some disable kong plugins for internal microservice communication?

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-some-disable-kong-plugins-for-internal-microservice-communication/10688>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** kong-gateway\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-some-disable-kong-plugins-for-internal-microservice-communication/10688 "2022-09-21T13:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![shahamit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@shahamit](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/shahamit)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-some-disable-kong-plugins-for-internal-microservice-communication/10688/1 "2022-09-21T13:11:18Z")

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We have around 8-10 microservices (java based spring boot apps) in our architecture. All of them are deployed as docker containers. We have a central kong api gateway that routes the incoming requests to the appropriate microservices. We have central authentication, rate-limiting, monitoring, load balancing and circuit breaker enabled on kong.

How can I disable certain plugins in kong like authentication when the api calls are internal?

Thanks.