Product updates
Visibility and limits: Keep track of your ngrok usage
Track your ngrok usage effectively with our dashboard, offering visibility into metrics like traffic, endpoints, and data transfers.
September 5, 2024
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Introducing Load Balancer support for ngrok Kubernetes Operator
Enhance Kubernetes operations with ngrok’s Load Balancer support, streamlining access and connectivity for services in your clusters.
August 29, 2024
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Send ngrok Network Traffic Logs to Azure Monitor
Seamlessly integrate ngrok with Azure Monitor to forward network traffic logs for enhanced visibility and secure traffic management.
August 21, 2024
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Easier DNS configuration with subdomains and zones—and a switch
Using branded domains with ngrok? It’s never been easier or more error-proof to establish proper DNS zones for delegation and namespacing.
August 19, 2024
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It’s about time: Format timestamps and time zones in the ngrok dashboard
Customize timestamps in your ngrok dashboard to streamline debugging and enhance event observability across time zones.
July 24, 2024
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Traffic Policy Engine - What are CEL variables?
Harness the power of CEL variables in ngrok’s Traffic Policy Module to create dynamic, robust traffic filtering rules for your APIs.
July 1, 2024
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ngrok Accounts Now Require a Valid Payment Method to use TCP Endpoints
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.
June 13, 2024
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ngrok Network Traffic Inspector is now Generally Available with replay and additional retention
Capture, inspect, and replay traffic for up to 90 days from the ngrok dashboard with our Network Traffic Inspector, now GA.
June 10, 2024
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Automate Bot User creation and management with our new APIs
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.
May 2, 2024
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ngrok Introduces Network Traffic Inspection - Available directly from the dashboard
Our new network traffic inspector provides network traffic observability for all endpoints. A modern PCAP in the cloud.
March 27, 2024
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Introducing support for the Kubernetes Gateway API in the ngrok Kubernetes Operator
Get all the benefits of ngrok with Kubernetes: effortless configuration, environment independence, security with resiliency, and acceleration.
March 18, 2024
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Drive application performance and stability with global rate limiting
Master application stability and performance with ngrok's rate limiting, ensuring fair resource distribution and preventing overload.
March 18, 2024
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Introducing new domains for the ngrok global network
Discover ngrok's new domains: ngrok.pizza for free users and ngrok.pro for premium. Enable HTTP/HTTPS connections outside the HSTS preload list.
March 11, 2024
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Introducing ngrok's Traffic Policy module
Discover ngrok's Traffic Policy module: a powerful tool for managing traffic across platforms using CEL and JSON/YAML, offering flexible configurations and advanced logic.
February 21, 2024
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Introducing ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway: Shifting the paradigm of API delivery
ngrok's API gateway includes traffic routing, JWT authentication and authorization for API security, rate limiting for ensuring fairness, preventing resource exhaustion of origin services, and flexible request/response manipulation - all powered by our new traffic policy engine.
February 15, 2024
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Introducing end-to-end HTTP/2 support from client to origin server
ngrok now supports HTTP/2 to speed up the traffic between client and server
January 17, 2024
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Get started with User Agent Filtering
ngrok users can now use the User Agent Filter module to filter traffic destined for upstream services based on the value of the HTTP user-agent request header.
December 14, 2023
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Our next generation firewall project
Read about how we have improved our firewall and created an open-source Firewall Toolkit in the process.
December 7, 2023
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Introducing Pay-as-you-go pricing for ngrok
New from ngrok: Pay-as-you-go pricing. Optimize costs by paying just for active endpoints, perfect for delivering apps and APIs to production.
October 31, 2023
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Product Updates: ngrok-go, ngrok-rs, OAuth & Webhooks for free
This month we've been busy with ngrok-go, ngrok-rust, making OAuth and webhook verification free for all plans, and traveling coast to coast and even to Europe. Read on for details.
April 6, 2023
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New ngrok domains now available
We’re excited to announce the release of new ngrok domains for free and paid users. These new domains automatically route your traffic to the nearest available region on the ngrok Global Network, providing you and your users with faster speeds and a smoother experience.
April 6, 2023
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Introducing ngrok-rs - safe and portable network ingress to your Rust apps 🦀
Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-rs as the ngrok agent packaged as a Rust crate.
March 28, 2023
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Expanding ngrok's free plan with security in one line
We strive to take ingress off developers’ plates with our platform and that requires making security-focused features accessible and easy to use. Today, I'm proud to announce an important step in that direction: we're adding our security features — OAuth and Webhook validation — to our free plan.
March 16, 2023
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Introducing ngrok-go: Ingress to Your Go Apps as a net.Listener
Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-go, our idiomatic Go package for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-go as the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.
March 9, 2023
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How ngrok Actively Combats Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are one of the most common attacks on the internet, and ngrok is committed to actively trying to stop them.
February 28, 2023
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New ngrok Global Network Domains coming soon
Today we are announcing the upcoming release of our new ngrok Global Network domains for our free and paid users. Read to learn more about our upcoming Global Network capabilities.
February 20, 2023
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ngrok December update: Dashboard SSO, Identity-Aware Ingress
The last month has been busy at ngrok! We’re tremendously proud to announce we’ve raised $50M in funding to grow ngrok’s API-first ingress as a service platform for developers. We’ve also focused on improving security with Dashboard SSO and Identity-Aware Ingress, developer experience with new documentation, and contribute to the community with webhook security and an open source firewall toolset for go
December 21, 2022
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Single Sign-On for the ngrok Dashboard
Even the best developers tools need to integrate with the systems and processes that protect your organization. With Dashboard Single Sign-On, ngrok is one of them!
November 9, 2022
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ngrok October update: no-grok, OAuth, and webhooks for all
This month, we focused in two areas you asked for (a lot) and filled in some other bits and bytes to give you a hand: productivity features to launch your tunnels quickly with style and security features so you use ngrok in your org with IT and security approval.
November 1, 2022
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ngrok August Update: webhooks, community & trust portal
Since our major release in April, we've been busy on all fronts from webhook verification, the trust & security portal, and even our community efforts with Slack. Read on for more details!
August 18, 2022
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ngrok Security Disclosure, May 2022
Last week, we fixed a multi-tenancy bug in the ngrok dashboard’s caching layer that unintentionally leaked data between a small subset of ngrok accounts when they viewed the ngrok dashboard. This bug affected less than 5% of ngrok’s active users. We have contacted all accounts affected by the bug directly via email with instructions for remediation.
May 18, 2022
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