Redpanda

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.

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StreamingKafkaEvent StreamingReal-TimeData PlatformOpen SourceC++Stream Processing

APIs

Redpanda Kafka API

Redpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, consumers, AdminClient, Streams, Connect) to work unchanged against Redp...

Redpanda Admin API

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...

Redpanda Schema Registry API

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.

Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API

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...

Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API

The Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource groups, users, and serverless namespaces — across the Redpanda Cloud (Ser...

Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API

The Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API manages in-cluster resources — topics, ACLs, RBAC, users, schema registry, and connectors — for an individual Redpanda Cloud cluster.

Redpanda Console API

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 (Benthos) API

Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream-processor exposing an HTTP API for managing pipelines, inputs, outputs, processors, and metrics — bridging Kafka, S3,...

Redpanda rpk CLI Surface

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 Topic API

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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aid: redpanda
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/redpanda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Redpanda
x-type: opensource
description: >-
  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.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Streaming
  - Kafka
  - Event Streaming
  - Real-Time
  - Data Platform
  - Open Source
  - C++
  - Stream Processing
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-kafka-api
    name: Redpanda Kafka API
    tags:
      - Kafka
      - Wire Protocol
      - Producers
      - Consumers
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/develop/kafka-clients/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://kafka.apache.org/protocol
        type: API Reference
    description: >-
      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).
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-admin-api
    name: Redpanda Admin API
    tags:
      - Admin
      - Cluster
      - Brokers
      - Configuration
      - Operations
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/admin-api/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/api-reference/admin-api/
        type: API Reference
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-cluster-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-broker-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-partition-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-debug-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-transform-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-usage-openapi.json
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      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, rebalance, license, debug bundle, configuration, leadership, security, and partitions.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-schema-registry-api
    name: Redpanda Schema Registry API
    tags:
      - Schema Registry
      - Avro
      - JSON Schema
      - Protobuf
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/schema-reg/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/schema-registry-api/
        type: API Reference
    description: >-
      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.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-http-proxy-api
    name: Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API
    tags:
      - HTTP Proxy
      - REST
      - Producers
      - Consumers
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/develop/http-proxy/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/pandaproxy/
        type: API Reference
    description: >-
      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 driver is impractical.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-cloud-control-plane-api
    name: Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API
    tags:
      - Cloud
      - Control Plane
      - Clusters
      - Networks
      - Organizations
      - Resource Groups
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-cloud/manage/api/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource groups, users, and serverless namespaces — across the Redpanda Cloud (Serverless, Dedicated, BYOC) deployments.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-cloud-data-plane-api
    name: Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API
    tags:
      - Cloud
      - Data Plane
      - Topics
      - ACLs
      - Users
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-cloud/manage/api/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      The Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API manages in-cluster resources — topics, ACLs, RBAC, users, schema registry, and connectors — for an individual Redpanda Cloud cluster.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-console-api
    name: Redpanda Console API
    tags:
      - Console
      - UI
      - Backend API
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/console/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console
        type: Source
    description: >-
      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 directly to embed Console functionality.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-connect-api
    name: Redpanda Connect (Benthos) API
    tags:
      - Stream Processing
      - Connectors
      - Benthos
      - ETL
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect/about/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect
        type: Source
    description: >-
      Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream-processor exposing an HTTP API for managing pipelines, inputs, outputs, processors, and metrics — bridging Kafka, S3, databases, and HTTP sinks.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-rpk-api
    name: Redpanda rpk CLI Surface
    tags:
      - CLI
      - rpk
      - Operations
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
        type: Source
    description: >-
      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, ACLs, and benchmarking.
  - aid: redpanda:redpanda-iceberg-topic-api
    name: Redpanda Iceberg Topic API
    tags:
      - Iceberg
      - Lakehouse
      - Tiered Storage
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/iceberg/
        type: Documentation
    description: >-
      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, and Snowflake.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://redpanda.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.redpanda.com/
  - type: API Reference
    url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/
  - type: Getting Started
    url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/get-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.redpanda.com/pricing
  - type: Sign Up
    url: https://cloud.redpanda.com/signup
  - type: Login
    url: https://cloud.redpanda.com/
  - type: GitHub Organization
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data
  - type: Source
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/blob/dev/licenses/bsl.md
  - type: Helm Charts
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/helm-charts
  - type: Console
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console
  - type: Connect
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect
  - type: Operator
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-operator
  - type: Examples
    url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-examples
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.redpanda.com/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.redpanda.com/blog
  - type: Change Log
    url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/release-notes/
  - type: Governance
    url: https://www.redpanda.com/about
  - type: X (Twitter)
    url: https://x.com/redpandadata
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@RedpandaData
  - type: Slack Community
    url: https://redpandacommunity.slack.com/
  - type: rpk CLI
    url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/redpanda-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/redpanda-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/redpanda-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]