# JWT Plugin and Route Exclusion

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/jwt-plugin-and-route-exclusion/493>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 5, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/jwt-plugin-and-route-exclusion/493 "2018-02-05T16:09:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/jwt-plugin-and-route-exclusion/493/1 "2018-02-05T16:09:01Z")

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Hello,

I am using Kong and the JWT plugin to authenticate my upstream services. I have a use case where i would like to expose an endpoint in one of the services without having Kong authenticate against it. I was wondering if there is any way to specify exclusion patterns to let Kong know to ignore authentication for this endpoint?