Kong Consumer Groups API
Consumer groups enable the organization and categorization of consumers (users or applications) within an API ecosystem.By grouping consumers together, you eliminate the need to manage them individually, providing a scalable, efficient approach to managing configurations.
Kong Consumer Groups API is one of 139 APIs that Kong publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Consumer Groups. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, an API reference, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 15 operations across 8 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.14.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, {protocol}://{hostname}:{port}{path}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Kong Consumer Groups API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Kong-Admin-Token (adminToken).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 15
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 15 operations — 5 DELETE, 4 GET, 4 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Consumer groups enable the organization and categorization of consumers (users or applications) within an API ecosystem. By grouping consumers together, you eliminate the need to…
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Consumer_2 (6 properties), Consumer (6 properties), ConsumerGroup (5 properties), ConsumerGroup_2 (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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