# Redpanda Kafka API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-kafka-api/  
**Provider:** Redpanda — https://apis.io/providers/redpanda/

Redpanda Kafka API is one of 10 APIs that [Redpanda](https://apis.io/providers/redpanda/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Kafka, Wire Protocol, Producers, and Consumers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

Redpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, consumers, AdminClient, Streams, Connect) to work unchanged against Redpanda brokers on TCP port 9092 (or the cluster's configured Kafka API port).

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.redpanda.com/current/develop/kafka-clients/
- **APIReference** — https://kafka.apache.org/protocol
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/redpanda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Redpanda APIs (9)

- [Redpanda Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-admin-api/)
- [Redpanda Schema Registry API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-schema-registry-api/)
- [Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-http-proxy-api/)
- [Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-cloud-control-plane-api/)
- [Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-cloud-data-plane-api/)
- [Redpanda Console API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-console-api/)
- [Redpanda Connect (Benthos) API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-connect-api/)
- [Redpanda rpk CLI Surface](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-rpk-api/)
- [Redpanda Iceberg Topic API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-iceberg-topic-api/)

## Tags

Kafka, Wire Protocol, Producers, Consumers

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