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Secrets for Traffic Policy now in Open Beta
Manage sensitive values securely, reuse them across policies, and rotate them without editing policies—now open to everyone who's open to using the ngrok CLI!
August 27, 2025
Terminate requests to your endpoint with the close-connection action
While you can send a "no thanks" error code and response body, close-connection is perfect for situations where you'd rather just definitively close the door.
August 19, 2025
The ngrok Docker Desktop Extension: instant endpoints for your local containers
From Docker Desktop, start an endpoint for your local containerized APIs or apps, then apply rules for auth, routing, or rate limits without leaving the UI.
August 8, 2025
How to write policies with patterns that scale
Tips for making your Traffic Policy easier to read, debug, and evolve, without rewriting it every time your requirements shift.
By Joel Hans
July 22, 2025
Introducing http-request: Call your services directly from Traffic Policy
Trigger internal services, validate requests, log events, connect to AI APIs, and generally give your gateway a brain with the new http-request action.
Decouple policy from sensitive data: introducing Secrets for Traffic Policy
Secrets let you define and manage sensitive values in secure vaults—no more hardcoding or repetitive edits during regular credential rotations.
ngrok's Go SDK v2: simple, streamlined, more powerful
Embed a secure gateway into your Go app in one function call and run it anywhere—then make it soar by managing traffic with Traffic Policy.
June 18, 2025
Use the load balancing power of Endpoint Pools for canary deploys and beyond
Load balancing isn't just for scaling replicas—see what else Endpoint Pools can do, like canaries and risk-free (or at least less risky!) gateway changes.
By Joel Hans
May 22, 2025
Introducing Endpoint Pools: Load balance anything, anywhere
With ngrok Endpoint Pools, load balancing is just starting endpoints with the same URL. Zero config. Elastic scale. Cross-cloud ready.
By Alan Shreve
May 20, 2025
Block bad actors and mitigate DDoS attacks with JA4 fingerprints
Tired of spoofed headers? Use JA4 to fingerprint clients by their TLS handshake and take action with ngrok Traffic Policy.
Set variables in Traffic Policy for cleaner, reusable configs
Define lists, maps, and interpolated values inside your traffic management rules—then reference them anywhere—to make configs both simpler and more dynamic.
By Joel Hans
May 5, 2025
Tired of slow Kubernetes dev loops? Try local projection with bindings
Run your service on localhost, interact with it from any of your clusters—or all of them at once. ngrok makes the K8s dev loop feel magical again.
By Joel Hans
April 25, 2025
Deploy custom error pages with your logo, your messages, your way
You can't always control when your services crash, but with Traffic Policy and custom responses, you can build consistent and helpful error pages in minutes.
By Joel Hans
April 15, 2025
Protect services with a circuit breaker at your API gateway
Implement circuit breaking at your API gateway to prevent cascading failures and protect services, and without having to add more complexity to your APIs.
By Joel Hans
January 6, 2025
Introducing the Basic Auth Traffic Policy action
Secure your endpoints with ngrok’s Basic Auth Traffic Policy, compatible with both interactive and programmatic access to your APIs or apps, in a few minutes.
Create a self-service app and API delivery platform with composable Traffic Policy
ngrok lets you manipulate traffic at multiple moments in the request lifecycle, allowing API developers to compose, not compromise, powerful API gateway rules.
By Joel Hans
December 10, 2024
Manage traffic on a region-aware API gateway—without the networking
Build a region-aware API gateway with ngrok's Traffic Policy. Route requests, manage failover, and enforce regional compliance with simple YAML configs.
By Joel Hans
December 4, 2024
Verify webhooks with ngrok’s new Traffic Policy action
Ensure secure, verified webhook interactions with ngrok’s Traffic Policy Action, enhancing protection and reliability for your endpoints.
December 3, 2024
Manage traffic at critical connection points with Traffic Policy phases
Learn how ngrok's phase-based Traffic Policy gives you granular traffic control in more places, from TCP connect through HTTP response, to take decisive action.
November 21, 2024
Flexible and expressive traffic orchestration: introducing internal endpoints
Internal endpoints are secure, non-public endpoints that end with .internal, allowing you to route traffic based on headers, paths, subdomains, and more.
October 29, 2024
Deploy advanced HTTP traffic shaping with request variables and CEL
Explore ngrok's request variables and Common Expression Language to create flexible, powerful HTTP traffic shaping rules for your API endpoints.
By Joel Hans
September 12, 2024
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.
By Sam Richard
September 5, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
August 21, 2024
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.
By Joel Hans
August 19, 2024
Developer's guide: Manage traffic with CEL expressions and connection variables
Explore how ngrok's Traffic Policy feature helps developers filter traffic, without requiring help from ops, with raw connection variable data and CEL.
By Joel Hans
August 14, 2024
How to build connectors to on-premise services for workflow automation
Streamline workflow automation by connecting on-premises services with ngrok’s secure, efficient connectors for various APIs.
July 24, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
July 24, 2024
Traffic Policy Engine now supports dynamic configuration with CEL Interpolation
Enhance your traffic policy management with ngrok's CEL Interpolation, enabling dynamic, adaptable configurations for APIs.
July 23, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
June 13, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
June 10, 2024
Secure your API with JWTs and ngrok’s API Gateway
Secure your APIs with JWT authentication using ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway for enhanced security and seamless integration.
By Joel Hans
May 16, 2024
Developer experience in deployed API gateways: Kong vs. ngrok
Discover the simplicity of ngrok's API gateway and compare it to Kong for enabling developer productivity, ease of use, and rapid deployment capabilities.
By Joel Hans
May 14, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
May 2, 2024
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.
By Russ Savage
March 27, 2024
Transform connectivity with ngrok: A strategic edge for modern enterprises
Learn how ngrok redefines digital transformation, offering strategic advantages in security, efficiency, and innovation for modern enterprises.
By Chad Tindel
March 21, 2024
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
Introducing ngrok's Traffic Policy module
Discover ngrok's Traffic Policy module: manage traffic across platforms using CEL and JSON/YAML, with flexible configurations and advanced logic.
February 21, 2024
Introducing ngrok’s developer-defined API Gateway: Shifting the paradigm of API delivery
ngrok's composable API gateway allows you to filter traffic, route to any number of upstream API services and more—all powered by our Traffic Policy engine.
February 15, 2024
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
By Blain Smith
January 17, 2024
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 15, 2023
Agent versions 3.1 and older are no longer supported
As of Jan. 15, 2024, free accounts using the ngrok agent version prior to version 3.2 will no longer connect to the ngrok service.
November 30, 2023
Introducing Cloud Edges for all ngrok users
Announcing the addition of Cloud Edges to our free tier to deliver production apps and APIs on ngrok
August 28, 2023
Static domains for all ngrok users
All ngrok users can now claim one static domain for free. Your ngrok URL will not change on the free plan.
August 16, 2023
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.
April 7, 2023
New ngrok domains now available
Announcing new ngrok domains for free and paid users. Automatically route traffic to the nearest region, providing visitors with a faster experience.
April 6, 2023
New ngrok Global Network Domains coming soon
Announcing the 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
Single Sign-On for the ngrok Dashboard
Sign in to ngrok easier with SSO
By Russ Savage
November 9, 2022
Deploying ngrok in Production
In this post, we navigate some of the best practices, key considerations, and features provided by ngrok for production scenarios
By Keith Casey
May 3, 2022
