# \#plugins

**URL:** https://discuss.konghq.com/tag/plugins/5.md

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## [Troubleshooting I/O Wait and Latency Spikes on Bare-Metal Gateway Setup](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/troubleshooting-i-o-wait-and-latency-spikes-on-bare-metal-gateway-setup/14099)

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**Author:** [@najapi8681](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/najapi8681)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/troubleshooting-i-o-wait-and-latency-spikes-on-bare-metal-gateway-setup/14099 "2026-08-26T14:11:27Z")

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Hey everyone, I’ve been lurking here for a while, but I finally ran into a performance bottleneck that has me scratching my head, so I figured it was time to reach out to the community. I recently made the decision to …

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## [Possible Regression: ACL Plugin Always Returns 403 with Konnect Application Auth on Fresh Konnect Trial (Gateway 3.15.0.2)](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/possible-regression-acl-plugin-always-returns-403-with-konnect-application-auth-on-fresh-konnect-trial-gateway-3-15-0-2/14083)

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**Author:** [@extservices](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/extservices)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/possible-regression-acl-plugin-always-returns-403-with-konnect-application-auth-on-fresh-konnect-trial-gateway-3-15-0-2/14083 "2026-08-06T15:25:41Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to determine whether I’ve found a regression or if I’m missing a new configuration requirement introduced in Gateway 3.15.0.2. Environment Working Environment Konnect Trial (older) Gateway Data…

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## [Kong Gateway plugin for routing OpenAI-compatible requests to local Ollama nodes](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-gateway-plugin-for-routing-openai-compatible-requests-to-local-ollama-nodes/14015)

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**Author:** [@grulka](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/grulka)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-gateway-plugin-for-routing-openai-compatible-requests-to-local-ollama-nodes/14015 "2026-05-22T18:29:44Z")

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Hi Kong community, We’ve published a Kong Gateway plugin for routing OpenAI-compatible chat completion traffic to one or more ollama-agent-router runtime nodes. The plugin is available on LuaRocks: kong-plugin-ollama-a…

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## [SigNoz Kong plugin for forwarding Kong Gateway logs](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/signoz-kong-plugin-for-forwarding-kong-gateway-logs/14014)

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**Author:** [@Mahak\_Kaur](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Mahak_Kaur)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/signoz-kong-plugin-for-forwarding-kong-gateway-logs/14014 "2026-05-19T08:50:21Z")

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Hi Kong community, We’ve published a SigNoz plugin for Kong Gateway to send Kong telemetry to SigNoz. The plugin is available on LuaRocks: SigNoz Kong plugin LuaRocks You can check the setup flow and configuration det…

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## [How do you distinguish your routes, i.e. two APIs have a /users endpoint?](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-do-you-distinguish-your-routes-i-e-two-apis-have-a-users-endpoint/13950)

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**Author:** [@David\_M](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/David_M)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-do-you-distinguish-your-routes-i-e-two-apis-have-a-users-endpoint/13950 "2026-05-08T13:40:58Z")

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I’m running Kong on a Linux installation, and some of the APIs I manage have duplicate paths like/info, /health, /users, /groups, etc. To get around this I tried using deck file namespace, which adds a unique prefix (wo…

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## [CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager and Kong](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/cyberark-conjur-secrets-manager-and-kong/13893)

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**Author:** [@Nirmal](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Nirmal)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 11, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/cyberark-conjur-secrets-manager-and-kong/13893 "2026-03-11T20:04:33Z")

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Hello Team, I am working on an integration where Kong acts as a Trusted Broker to retrieve secrets from CyberArk Conjur using the authn-jwt authenticator. The proposed flow: Client authenticates to Kong (OIDC/API Ke…

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## [Python Custom Kong Plugin Issue](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/python-custom-kong-plugin-issue/13737)

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**Author:** [@navind](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/navind)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 12, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/python-custom-kong-plugin-issue/13737 "2026-01-12T12:47:36Z")

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I am planning on building a custom plugin using python. so now trying out the official example plugin but its not loading. I am using Kong in AKS Step 1: helm repo add kong https://charts.konghq.com Step 2: helm inst…

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## [How to use basic-auth in kong.yaml?](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-use-basic-auth-in-kong-yaml/13830)

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**Author:** [@LuizOt](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/LuizOt)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-use-basic-auth-in-kong-yaml/13830 "2025-12-01T16:35:43Z")

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I’m new to Kong and I have a question about configuring the basic-auth plugin using deck. I’m trying to define everything in my kong.yaml file, but I’m not sure where to put the consumers and where to define their basic…

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## [Payload transform plugin for persistent connection with transfer encoding: chunked](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/payload-transform-plugin-for-persistent-connection-with-transfer-encoding-chunked/13825)

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**Author:** [@souerdiane](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/souerdiane)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 24, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/payload-transform-plugin-for-persistent-connection-with-transfer-encoding-chunked/13825 "2025-11-24T12:59:31Z")

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Hello I’m exposing a kube api behind a Kong gateway API. This kube api exposes a watch endpoint that returns a persistent connection with header transfer encoding: chunked. Is it posible to write a go pluging for Kong …

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## [Custom Authorization Header JWT Plugins](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-authorization-header-jwt-plugins/13823)

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**Author:** [@ktvasan](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ktvasan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 21, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/custom-authorization-header-jwt-plugins/13823 "2025-11-21T16:56:29Z")

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Hello, We are using the community edition with a hybrid approach (multi-cluster with a single database). We have configured a service with JWT enabled, and our backend services expect a custom header like --header ‘prof…

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## [Rate-limit plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limit-plugin/13731)

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**Author:** [@Nidheesh\_Hari](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Nidheesh_Hari)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limit-plugin/13731 "2025-09-30T20:27:29Z")

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This is a query related to the rate-limiting plugin. I am using Kong 3.6 OSS. I have a consumer configured in my Kong gateway, with four gateway services under that consumer. Two services route to OpenAI endpoints, and …

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## [Free Kong OIDC plugin now live again!](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/free-kong-oidc-plugin-now-live-again/13641)

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**Author:** [@armeldemarsac92](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/armeldemarsac92)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 22, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/free-kong-oidc-plugin-now-live-again/13641 "2025-08-22T13:42:35Z")

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Hey everyone, I finished porting revomatico/kong-oidc plugin to the latest standards ! OIDC with keycloak is free again, and it works with the latest KGO. I wrote a short medium post about it. Feel free to try it ! You…

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## [Kong 3.11 does not support string list input for llm/v1/embeddings?](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-11-does-not-support-string-list-input-for-llm-v1-embeddings/13663)

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**Author:** [@ziv\_ziv](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ziv_ziv)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-11-does-not-support-string-list-input-for-llm-v1-embeddings/13663 "2025-07-31T06:05:42Z")

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Hi Team, After upgraded Kong to 3.11 version, when I try to use string list input in body request for llm/v1/embeddings, show me the error “message”: “request body doesn’t contain valid inputs”. When I switch use si…

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## [Manipulate response payload](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/manipulate-response-payload/13510)

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**Author:** [@rk201](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/rk201)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/manipulate-response-payload/13510 "2025-07-15T03:31:09Z")

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Hi Kong Community, I’m working with the Kong API Gateway (OSS) and trying to modify the response payload. However, I’ve noticed that it’s not possible to add third-party dependencies in the sandbox of the post plugin, w…

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## [Open Source Kong version plugins](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/open-source-kong-version-plugins/13577)

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**Author:** [@Jose](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Jose)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/open-source-kong-version-plugins/13577 "2025-07-14T19:02:47Z")

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Hello everyone. I’m looking for a list of available plugins just for Communty (OpenSource) Kong version. Can someone help me please with this information ? Thanks in advance !

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## [Configure AWS Lambda plugin using Aws Assume Role Arn](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/configure-aws-lambda-plugin-using-aws-assume-role-arn/13399)

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**Author:** [@dvqrbn](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/dvqrbn)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/configure-aws-lambda-plugin-using-aws-assume-role-arn/13399 "2025-07-14T06:52:47Z")

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Hi guys, I’m exploring the AWS lambda plugin for our r&d. I’m using kong oss. I tried using Aws Secret and Aws Key and it worked, but as per our head this approach is not good practice. I need to use the Aws Assume Rol…

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## [How to route requests based on 'model' field in body](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-route-requests-based-on-model-field-in-body/13604)

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**Author:** [@YaChang\_Hou](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/YaChang_Hou)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2025, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-route-requests-based-on-model-field-in-body/13604 "2025-07-08T06:14:44Z")

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Dear all, I wonder whether Kong support routing requests based on ‘model’ field in request body. We’ve built a LLM API Service and take Kong as AI Proxy. Suppose we have a request to out LLM API Service like this. We …

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## [TCP Traffic Metrics](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/tcp-traffic-metrics/13582)

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**Author:** [@Suriyaprakash\_M](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Suriyaprakash_M)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 27, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/tcp-traffic-metrics/13582 "2025-06-27T14:29:33Z")

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Subject: Unable to Retrieve TCP Traffic Metrics with Kong Gateway & TCPIngress Hello Team, I’m working on a use case where I need to stream TCP traffic through Kong deployed as an Ingress Controller using the TCPIngres…

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## [Kong 3.9.1 plugin loading issue, stuck at wait for db](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-9-1-plugin-loading-issue-stuck-at-wait-for-db/13572)

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**Author:** [@Sathishkumar\_Sat](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Sathishkumar_Sat)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-9-1-plugin-loading-issue-stuck-at-wait-for-db/13572 "2025-06-24T07:22:20Z")

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Hi, I m trying to upgrade the kong 3.7 to 3.9.1. But while upgrading it, im facing the following error wait-for-db Error: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/kong/cmd/start.lua:99: nginx: \[warn\] the "user" directive makes sense …

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## [Best Way to Deploy Kong Manager and Kong API in Kubernetes (Internal Connectivity Issues)](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/best-way-to-deploy-kong-manager-and-kong-api-in-kubernetes-internal-connectivity-issues/13560)

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**Author:** [@yasanthae](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/yasanthae)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/best-way-to-deploy-kong-manager-and-kong-api-in-kubernetes-internal-connectivity-issues/13560 "2025-06-11T07:25:30Z")

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I’m planning to deploy Kong Manager and Kong Admin API in a Kubernetes cluster, but I’m facing internal connectivity issues between Kong Manager and the Kong Admin API. I’ve followed the architecture shown in the attach…

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## [OAUTH2 Plugin-An unexpected error occurred](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth2-plugin-an-unexpected-error-occurred/13515)

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**Author:** [@bamsiv](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/bamsiv)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/oauth2-plugin-an-unexpected-error-occurred/13515 "2025-04-28T17:54:08Z")

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Hi All, We are trying to use kong oauth 2 plugin and when we try to fetch access token we are getting “An unexpected error occurred” can someone with similar issue help us to fix it. curl -i -k -X POST “https://10.195.…

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## [Reuse plugin on specific routes, not duplicate](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/reuse-plugin-on-specific-routes-not-duplicate/13507)

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**Author:** [@pdany1116](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/pdany1116)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/reuse-plugin-on-specific-routes-not-duplicate/13507 "2025-04-23T14:27:17Z")

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Hi, I have the following configuration: serivice A: route A1 route A2 route A3 service B: route B1 route B2 I want to configure OIDC plugin on routes A1, A2 and whole service B. I could not find a way to reuse a …

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## [Adding labels to request body using request tranformer plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/adding-labels-to-request-body-using-request-tranformer-plugin/13485)

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**Author:** [@Nidheesh\_Hari](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Nidheesh_Hari)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/adding-labels-to-request-body-using-request-tranformer-plugin/13485 "2025-04-17T05:27:15Z")

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I am using the Kong gateway service with the request transformer plugin to set up the gateway to access the GCP Gemini service. My Kong proxy domain is example.com and the route path is /gemini So when I call https://e…

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## [Kong data plane workloads with service mesh enabled via a sidecar, the dataplane application face connectivity issues with sending traces to the Grafana agent](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-data-plane-workloads-with-service-mesh-enabled-via-a-sidecar-the-dataplane-application-face-connectivity-issues-with-sending-traces-to-the-grafana-agent/13484)

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**Author:** [@akshay](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/akshay)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 9, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-data-plane-workloads-with-service-mesh-enabled-via-a-sidecar-the-dataplane-application-face-connectivity-issues-with-sending-traces-to-the-grafana-agent/13484 "2025-04-09T18:41:47Z")

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After onboarding the Kong data plane workloads with service mesh enabled via a sidecar, the Kong dataplane application face issues with sending traces to the Grafana agent. Zipkin plugin is sending the traces to the hos…

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## [Kong 3.9.0 with ACME plugin throws invalid response / no corresponding response found for](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-9-0-with-acme-plugin-throws-invalid-response-no-corresponding-response-found-for/13480)

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**Author:** [@Ramo\_Karahasan-Riech](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Ramo_Karahasan-Riech)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-3-9-0-with-acme-plugin-throws-invalid-response-no-corresponding-response-found-for/13480 "2025-04-08T10:41:43Z")

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Hello, running Kong 3.9.0 OSS on a host machine, I’m trying to use the ACME plugin respectively the kong-certbot-agent to create/trigger certificate generation. { "next": null, "data": \[ { "id": "6c2bc4d…

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## [Enabling ModSecurity on Kong](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/enabling-modsecurity-on-kong/13398)

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**Author:** [@Alireza\_zolfaghar](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Alireza_zolfaghar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/enabling-modsecurity-on-kong/13398 "2025-03-25T17:29:48Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to enable ModSecurity for Kong. It seems that OpenResty needs to be rebuilt with this module. So, I built it using the following commands: cd /tmp \\ && git clone https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-…

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## [Kong post function : change code based on body content](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-post-function-change-code-based-on-body-content/13426)

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**Author:** [@yroffin](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/yroffin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-post-function-change-code-based-on-body-content/13426 "2025-03-14T18:03:29Z")

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hi, i’m trying to change with a post function http code, and i only succed to change it in header filter did someone try chnage ttp code on body based content ?

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## [How to Build custom image with real\_ip\_header Plugin](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-build-custom-image-with-real-ip-header-plugin/13421)

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**Author:** [@jani.paras](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/jani.paras)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 13, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/how-to-build-custom-image-with-real-ip-header-plugin/13421 "2025-03-13T19:37:06Z")

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Hello All, Thanks… Please guide me, How to build custom image of Kong latest version with custom plugin. Scenario : API Invoker → AWS ALB → KONG → Application (required API Invoker IP address in this application) So…

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## [Kong PDK Closed Network Connection](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-pdk-closed-network-connection/13409)

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**Author:** [@ricfeatherstone](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ricfeatherstone)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-pdk-closed-network-connection/13409 "2025-03-10T11:02:28Z")

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I’m writing an access control plugin in Go Everything is fine when the plugin returns a success. When it tries to return an error, the header and body are set correctly, but there is an info message logged by the gatew…

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## [Encryption and Decryption of API Payload on Kong API Gateway](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/encryption-and-decryption-of-api-payload-on-kong-api-gateway/12976)

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**Author:** [@nitiraj\_pachkale](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/nitiraj_pachkale)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 13, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/encryption-and-decryption-of-api-payload-on-kong-api-gateway/12976 "2025-02-13T17:56:18Z")

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Hi There, I have successfully installed Kong API Gateway on my machine and also I have onboarded couple of services on the same. Currently, I have a requirement where I need to implement API encryption to the request/re…

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