Redpanda is a Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++ with no JVM and no ZooKeeper, optimized for low latency and operational simplicity. The core broker (redpanda) is open source and available under the Business Source License 1.1, and a fully managed cloud service (Redpanda Cloud — Serverless, Dedicated, BYOC) is offered commercially. Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) provides stream processing. The platform exposes the Kafka wire protocol, an Admin API, a Schema Registry API, an HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy), Kafka-compatible client APIs, and the Redpanda Cloud Control Plane and Data Plane APIs for managed deployments.
Redpanda publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Admin API. Tagged areas include Streaming, Kafka, Event Streaming, Real-Time, and Data Platform.
Redpanda’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, developer console, code examples, and 25 more developer resources.
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The Redpanda Admin API is a built-in HTTP REST API (default port 9644) exposing cluster operations not covered by the Kafka protocol — broker membership, decommissioning, rebala...
The Redpanda Schema Registry API is a Confluent-Schema-Registry-compatible REST API for managing Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schema versions and subjects bound to topic events.
The Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) provides a REST API for producing and consuming topic data without a Kafka client library, useful for environments where embedding a Kafka d...
The Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource groups, users, and serverless namespaces — across the Redpanda Cloud (Ser...
The Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API manages in-cluster resources — topics, ACLs, RBAC, users, schema registry, and connectors — for an individual Redpanda Cloud cluster.
The Redpanda Console API powers the Redpanda Console UI (open-source) — topics, consumer groups, broker view, schema registry browsing, and ACL management — and can be called di...
Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream-processor exposing an HTTP API for managing pipelines, inputs, outputs, processors, and metrics — bridging Kafka, S3,...
rpk is the Redpanda command-line tool, wrapping the Kafka, Admin, Schema Registry, and Cloud APIs into operator-friendly commands for deployment, configuration, topic management...
Redpanda Iceberg Topics expose topic data as Apache Iceberg tables in object storage, accessible from the Iceberg REST catalog and consumable by query engines like Spark, Trino,...
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