High-perf Agentic Data Plane & Streaming | Redpanda

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Governance infrastructure made for agents

Until you can connect them to everything they need, trust them with data, and make them explainable, agents stay in demo mode.

Redpanda closes the gap between agents and data

Trust

Every agent has an identity. Every access is mediated.

Explainability

Every action recorded, replayable, auditable.

Context

Connected to what agents need. Nothing more.

Control

Kill switch, guardrails, token enforcement.

Proven with mission-critical 
workloads. Ready for AI.

Agent Governance

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Agentic Data Plane

Give agents the access, information, and oversight they need to do real work across your organization.

Integrate agents

Work with any builder or make them with our tools.

Govern agents

Centrally control behavior and access to models, systems, and data.

Connect agents

Give safe access to the tools, systems, and data agents need to work.

Control agents

Observe, evaluate, and audit everything agents do.

Data Infrastructure

Redpanda
Data Platform

Build mission-critical, real-time data infrastructure ready for agentic AI.

Data Streaming Platform

Stream data in real time, from any system to any system.

Redpanda Connect

Connect data systems across hundreds of sources and sinks.

Redpanda SQL

Query data spanning live and historical sources for real-time analytics

No cloud lock-in

Deploy on any cloud, any model, any stack. Open protocols. Your infrastructure, your terms.

No model lock-in

Works with any AI model. Switch models without rebuilding your governance layer.

No vendor lock-in

Built on Kafka, A2A, MCP, Postgres. Standards you already know.

Governance done right
looks like freedom.

Hyperscalers and agent platforms have an incentive to make governance the thing that keeps you inside their walls. We think that's wrong. Governance should give you confidence to build anywhere, with anything, on your own terms. Not because it's easier. Because it's right.

Our point of view

“The hardest part of AI isn’t building applications—it's trusting them with sensitive data. Redpanda gives enterprises the guardrails and speed we need to actually put agents into production.”

Kannan Dorairaj

Chief Architect, LiveRamp

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Redpanda solves the operational problems holding agentic AI back

Governance

Enforce policies and manage spend at the infrastructure level.

Security

Every agent gets its own identity, task-specific permissions, and guardrails.

Explainability

A complete, immutable, real-time transcript of every input, output, and tool call.

Kill Switch

Freeze agents when they go over budget or break rules—or anytime for any reason.

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We’ve acquired Oxla, whose SQL query engine and engineering talent fast-track our ability to deliver real-time analytics, ad-hoc querying, and intelligent data transformation inside the Agentic Data Plane.

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Your agents are ready.
Is your infrastructure?

Most enterprises are one governance failure away from pulling their agents out of production. Talk to us about building the infrastructure layer that keeps them there.

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