Posts tagged “Traffic Policy”
Showing 34 posts tagged with Traffic Policy.
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
Self-hosted local AI workflows with Docker, n8n, Ollama, and ngrok
The shortest path to the best of all worlds: AI-driven automation, simple deployments with containers and a GUI, and a gateway to knit it all together securely.
By Joel Hans
August 20, 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
Five ways ngrokkers 'doglab' gateways for homelabs and side projects
How do they build gateways to route and authenticate traffic to blogs, OSS analytics services, photo-sharing apps, and much more with Traffic Policy?
From nginx to ngrok: Dogfooding our own website with Traffic Policy
We built an API gateway, then turned it on ourselves. Here's the full story of how we replaced nginx and now host ngrok.com with Kubernetes and Traffic Policy.
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.
Shinobi's shortcut to AI-powered pentests in staging and dev envs
Shinobi’s AI red team agents test apps before attackers do, and with ngrok's Traffic Policy, they can integrate with customer's unique topology in minutes.
By Sam Richard
July 1, 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
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.
Battle against search and AI bots on your ngrok endpoints
Are search and AI bots invading your ngrok endpoints? Fight back with three developer-friendly traffic policies you can deploy in minutes.
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
Terminate TLS however (and wherever) you want with Traffic Policy
Need custom certs? Want fast mTLS setup? ngrok’s terminate-tls action gives you complete TLS control from one declarative config.
By Joel Hans
April 23, 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
Introducing IP Intelligence to control unwanted traffic
Learn how ngrok's IP Intelligence gives you powerful tools to identify and block bots, scrapers, and malicious traffic at your API gateway.
By Russ Savage
January 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.
Dynamic routing with CEL interpolation and the forward-internal action
Simplify and scale complex traffic routing topologies by dynamically routing requests based on subdomains, headers, and other request attributes.
December 19, 2024
Why and how we ‘stringified’ your API gateway policies
By replacing highly typed configs with raw YAML/JSON, we’ve eliminated a major UX papercut and given you feature updates “for free.” Let’s see what’s changed.
By Ryan Grant
December 12, 2024
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
How can I geoblock with an API gateway?
Use geoblocking in your API gateway to control traffic by location, enhancing security, compliance, and performance
November 22, 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
Debug traffic flows with cloud endpoints and custom responses
By using the custom-response Traffic Policy action and a public endpoint, you can quickly develop new policy rules without standing up a whole infrastructure.
By Joel Hans
November 12, 2024
How we built the Traffic Policy module and its actions
Traffic Policy is now the one true (and final!) way to shape your requests and responses. Let’s explore why we built it, how, and what it means for you.
October 23, 2024
Drop-in API gateway policy examples for manipulating headers
With these ready-for-prod Traffic Policy rules, you can boost your security, give customers SLA metrics, and create geo-aware APIs in a few lines of YAML.
By Joel Hans
October 17, 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
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
Redirect vs URL rewrite in an API gateway
Find out the difference between URL rewriting and redirection and how to utilize them to seamlessly migrate your API endpoints
August 8, 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
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
API gateway gallery: Drop-in API policy management examples
With these 10 YAML-configured examples, you can mix-and-match your way to better security, availability, and observability of your freshest APIs.
By Joel Hans
May 30, 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
