The ngrok blog

ngrok is useful to run alongside your app. What happens when you embed it and start activating OAuth, webhook verification, load balancing, and more?

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.

Announcing new ngrok domains for free and paid users. Automatically route traffic to the nearest region, providing visitors with a faster experience.

The best tools fit seamlessly with your existing tools so you can build better apps faster. We've been hard at work and are excited to share our progress.

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-rs, our native and idiomatic crate for embedding secure ingress directly into your Rust applications.

Managing your ngrok credentials across environments, projects, and teams doesn't have to be complicated. Try the 1Password ngrok shell plugin.

We're adding our security features — OAuth and Webhook validation — to our free plan.

Announcing ngrok-go, for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. ngrok-go is the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.

Learn how to build a ChatGPT-like SMS chatbot using the OpenAI API and Twilio Programmable Messaging with Python.

Phishing attacks are one of the most common attacks on the internet, and ngrok is committed to actively trying to stop them.

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.

The Zoom API has numerous endpoints and capabilities and you can grant fine-grained control over which your app can access.

Easily put ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers devices online using ngrok. Microcontrollers can operate robotics, motors, or sensors from simple web applications

Are you getting that dreaded "Unknown publisher" message in Windows? Read on to learn about properly signing your releases in simple, repeatable ways.

Improved security with Dashboard SSO & Identity-Aware Ingress, new docs, community contributions to webhook security, and open-source firewall tools for go.

Today, ngrok is growing faster than ever. To meet that increasing demand, we’re thrilled to announce our first-ever fundraising round of $50 million. We’ve raised this round to scale ngrok’s business across the board and to dramatically increase our investment in delivering new products for ngrok developers.

See your application users in the ngrok dashboard and view their identity details. This feature is a huge win for security and you can use it today.

Webhooks enable us to react to changes like text messages, successful payments, or pull requests. Few pay attention to their design, security or controls.

Sign in to ngrok easier with SSO

Agentless ngrok, new integrations, new OAuth providers, and signed agent. Launch your tunnels faster with IT and security approval.

ngrok is stronger with integrations. With our new Partnership Program, we're working to integrate it with everything out of the box to make your life easier.

We've been busy working on webhook verification, the trust & security portal, and even our community efforts with Slack. Read on for more details!

We’re excited to announce ngrok has been named one of the Top 100 Early-Stage Companies to Work for in 2022 by executive search firm Will Reed.

I've worked with OAuth 2.0 for over 6 years. It's always been a complex and challenging beast to fight until now.

We’re excited to announce that we have successfully completed the System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 testing with no findings. Read more for more information.

Securing your environment is challenging. With ngrok, you can centralize management to ensure policies are applied consistently, no matter the stack.

While ngrok has made it easy to launch your fantastic new app online in one line, bad actors have also used this capability to launch their own attacks. Blocking and eliminating this malicious behavior is key to what we do and we've taken another step to protect users without breaking legitimate applications.

In this post, I cover the different methods you can use for authenticating traffic with ngrok, including OAuth and OpenID Connect.

The ngrok security and trust portal shares how we secure the ngrok service, our shared security model, how we handle data, and the steps we take to protect it.

Last week, we fixed a multi-tenancy bug in the ngrok dashboard’s caching layer. We have contacted all accounts affected by the bug directly.

In this guest post, the maintainer of the Aero project shares how she's using ngrok as a key component in their spam fighting and community moderation approach.

How to run ngrok with Slack webhook authentication? GitHub OAuth? How to serve files? This cheat sheet shows the main commands!

In this post, we navigate some of the best practices, key considerations, and features provided by ngrok for production scenarios

Use ngrok Cloud Edge for app observability, load balancing, compression, and security – without the burden of running and maintaining middleware infrastructure.

ngrok Secure Tunnels. With one command share your apps, APIs, and systems with the world, without complex network configuration, reliability issues, and NAT.