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Track your ngrok usage effectively with our dashboard, offering visibility into metrics like traffic, endpoints, and data transfers.

Enhance Kubernetes operations with ngrok’s Load Balancer support, streamlining access and connectivity for services in your clusters.

Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.

Seamlessly integrate ngrok with Azure Monitor to forward network traffic logs for enhanced visibility and secure traffic management.

Discover what a reverse proxy is and why they're essential for public-facing services, apps, and APIs, and learn how to set up a reverse proxy on AWS with ngrok.

Using branded domains with ngrok? It’s never been easier or more error-proof to establish proper DNS zones for delegation and namespacing.

Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers intelligently filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.

Mutual TLS (mTLS) with an API gateway can help you meet compliance requirements in industries that demand high security for data transmission.

Find out the difference between URL rewriting and redirection and how to utilize them to seamlessly migrate your API endpoints

Discover how GitOps and APIOps can revolutionize your API gateway workflow, offering version control, easy deployment, and developer sanity with ngrok.

Understand how ngrok handles your data with advanced security measures, offering clarity and control over your traffic flows and storage.

Leverage ngrok with MicroK8s for efficient, secure edge computing and easy Kubernetes ingress setup across your networks.

Customize timestamps in your ngrok dashboard to streamline debugging and enhance event observability across time zones.

Streamline workflow automation by connecting on-premises services with ngrok’s secure, efficient connectors for various APIs.

Enhance your traffic policy management with ngrok's CEL Interpolation, enabling dynamic, adaptable configurations for APIs.

Discover how ngrok’s Global Server Load Balancing also brings multi-cloud and smoother application delivery to SaaS hosted globally on Linode VMs or k8s clusters.

We have added a policy CRD which can be used to support traffic policies in both ingress controller and Gateway API. This enables all traffic policy actions on the Gateway API.

Harness the power of CEL variables in ngrok’s Traffic Policy Module to create dynamic, robust traffic filtering rules for your APIs.

Ingress controllers and API gateways have some overlapping functionality, and this post helps you know when to use one over the other—or both!

Think of port forwarding as opening a specific "door" on your network to let in and route traffic to specific services. Learn more in this post.

In an effort to curb abuse, a valid payment method must be added to your ngrok account, including the free tier, before using TCP endpoints.

Capture, inspect, and replay traffic for up to 90 days from the ngrok dashboard with our Network Traffic Inspector, now GA.

mTLS or Mutual TLS extends TLS by requiring the client and server to authenticate each other with digital certificates.

With these 10 YAML-configured examples, you can mix-and-match your way to better security, availability, and observability of your freshest APIs.

Take a look at key concepts of Kubernetes Gateway API, advantages over traditional approaches, and use for effective traffic control in deployments.

Use our new guides to self-serve site-to-site connectivity to APIs, databases, and device service APIs in external networks.

Secure your APIs with JWT authentication using ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway for enhanced security and seamless integration.

Discover the simplicity of ngrok's API gateway and compare it to Kong for enabling developer productivity, ease of use, and rapid deployment capabilities.

ngrok now features a new Bot Users API endpoint that allows you to automate the creation, management, and deletion of Bot Users in your account.

Working together, the Kubernetes Gateway API and ngrok’s Cloud put power back into developers’ hands while abstracting away all the complexity of secure Kubernetes networking.

Reverse proxies and API gateways share many similarities. This post helps you understand how these technologies differ and when to use each one.

Discover Lunda.ai's innovative approach to sales coaching using AI, powered by ngrok for seamless integration and rapid development.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering is a method that allows two VPCs to connect and communicate. Get an overview of VPC peering here.

Our new network traffic inspector provides network traffic observability for all endpoints. A modern PCAP in the cloud.

Learn how ngrok redefines digital transformation, offering strategic advantages in security, efficiency, and innovation for modern enterprises.