Announcements, releases, and deep dives
Stories from the Agent Router community — and the Envoy AI Gateway years before it.
Envoy AI Gateway is becoming Agent Router, an Agentic AI Foundation project
On 10 September, Envoy AI Gateway officially joins the Agentic AI Foundation as Agent Router. Same code, same maintainers, same APIs. Here is what changes, what does not, and where to find us.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Multi-User MCP in Production: Per-User Identity at the Gateway Layer
How Envoy AI Gateway's header forwarding gives MCP tool calls per-user identity without OAuth infrastructure — and when you need OAuth instead.
Jul 5, 2026 · 10 min read
Announcing Envoy AI Gateway 1.0 — A Stable, Production-Ready AI Gateway
Envoy AI Gateway 1.0 is here — the first stable release of the open source AI gateway built on CNCF Envoy Gateway. A committed-stable control-plane API, 16 AI providers, an MCP gateway, multimodal support, and enterprise observability, all backed by a growing community.
Jun 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Benchmarking Envoy AI Gateway Control Plane Scaling
How many AIGatewayRoute resources can Envoy AI Gateway handle? We benchmarked the control plane scaling to 2,000 routes and measured latency, CPU, and memory usage.
Feb 23, 2026 · 8 min read
The Reality and Performance of MCP Traffic Routing with Envoy AI Gateway
In this article explore how Envoy AI Gateway handles stateful MCP sessions, keeps performance competitive, and stays aligned with the broader Envoy ecosystem.
Dec 8, 2025 · 9 min read
Announcing Model Context Protocol Support in Envoy AI Gateway
Envoy AI Gateway now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), bringing enterprise-grade security, routing, and observability to AI agent tool integrations with full spec compliance, OAuth authentication, and zero-friction deployment.
Oct 2, 2025 · 8 min read
Enhancing AI Gateway Observability - OpenTelemetry Tracing Arrives in Envoy AI Gateway
Envoy AI Gateway v0.3 introduces OpenTelemetry tracing with OpenInference conventions, providing complete visibility into LLM application behavior beyond metrics.Understand not just what happened, but why.
Aug 25, 2025 · 6 min read
Announcing the Envoy AI Gateway v0.3 Release
Envoy AI Gateway v0.3 brings intelligent inference routing with Endpoint Picker, production-ready Google Vertex AI support, and enterprise observability with OpenInference tracing—transforming AI infrastructure from static to intelligent.
Aug 22, 2025 · 8 min read
Envoy AI Gateway Introduces Endpoint Picker Support
Envoy AI Gateway introduces Endpoint Picker Provider support for intelligent inference routing based on real-time AI metrics like KV-cache usage and queue depth—moving beyond traditional load balancing to optimize AI workload performance.
Jul 30, 2025 · 7 min read
A Reference Architecture for Adopters of Envoy AI Gateway
Explore how to build a scalable GenAI platform using a two-tier architecture with Envoy AI Gateway. Centralize access to external and self-hosted LLMs through a unified API while managing credentials, costs, and governance.
Jul 15, 2025 · 7 min read