# redis

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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/components/caches/redis.md -->

**Type:** Cache ▼

[Cache](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/components/caches/redis/)[Processor](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/components/processors/redis/)[Rate\_limit](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/components/rate_limits/redis/)

**Available in:** [Cloud](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/components/caches/redis/%20%22View%20the%20Cloud%20version%20of%20this%20component%22), Self-Managed

Use a Redis instance as a cache. The expiration can be set to zero or an empty string in order to set no expiration.

#### Common

```yml
caches:
  redis:
    url: "" # No default (required)
    prefix: "" # No default (optional)
```

#### Advanced

```yml
caches:
  redis:
    url: "" # No default (required)
    kind: simple
    master: ""
    client_name: redpanda-connect
    tls:
      enabled: false
      skip_cert_verify: false
      enable_renegotiation: false
      root_cas: ""
      root_cas_file: ""
      client_certs: []
    prefix: "" # No default (optional)
    default_ttl: "" # No default (optional)
    retries:
      initial_interval: 500ms
      max_interval: 1s
      max_elapsed_time: 5s
```

## [](#fields)Fields

### [](#client_name)`client_name`

Set the client name for the Redis connection.

Requires version 4.82.0 or later.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `redpanda-connect`

### [](#default_ttl)`default_ttl`

An optional default TTL to set for items, calculated from the moment the item is cached.

**Type**: `string`

### [](#kind)`kind`

Specifies a simple, cluster-aware, or failover-aware redis client.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `simple`

**Options**: `simple`, `cluster`, `failover`

### [](#master)`master`

Name of the redis master when `kind` is `failover`

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

```yaml
# Examples:
master: mymaster
```

### [](#prefix)`prefix`

An optional string to prefix item keys with in order to prevent collisions with similar services.

**Type**: `string`

### [](#retries)`retries`

Determine time intervals and cut offs for retry attempts.

**Type**: `object`

### [](#retries-initial_interval)`retries.initial_interval`

The initial period to wait between retry attempts.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `500ms`

```yaml
# Examples:
initial_interval: 50ms

# ---

initial_interval: 1s
```

### [](#retries-max_elapsed_time)`retries.max_elapsed_time`

The maximum overall period of time to spend on retry attempts before the request is aborted.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `5s`

```yaml
# Examples:
max_elapsed_time: 1m

# ---

max_elapsed_time: 1h
```

### [](#retries-max_interval)`retries.max_interval`

The maximum period to wait between retry attempts

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `1s`

```yaml
# Examples:
max_interval: 5s

# ---

max_interval: 1m
```

### [](#tls)`tls`

Custom TLS settings can be used to override system defaults.

**Troubleshooting**

Some cloud hosted instances of Redis (such as Azure Cache) might need some hand holding in order to establish stable connections. Unfortunately, it is often the case that TLS issues will manifest as generic error messages such as "i/o timeout". If you’re using TLS and are seeing connectivity problems consider setting `enable_renegotiation` to `true`, and ensuring that the server supports at least TLS version 1.2.

**Type**: `object`

### [](#tls-client_certs)`tls.client_certs[]`

A list of client certificates to use. For each certificate either the fields `cert` and `key`, or `cert_file` and `key_file` should be specified, but not both.

**Type**: `object`

**Default**: `[]`

```yaml
# Examples:
client_certs:
  - cert: foo
    key: bar

# ---

client_certs:
  - cert_file: ./example.pem
    key_file: ./example.key
```

### [](#tls-client_certs-cert)`tls.client_certs[].cert`

A plain text certificate to use.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

### [](#tls-client_certs-cert_file)`tls.client_certs[].cert_file`

The path of a certificate to use.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

### [](#tls-client_certs-key)`tls.client_certs[].key`

A plain text certificate key to use.

> ⚠️ **CAUTION**
>
> This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see [Secrets](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/configuration/secrets/).

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

### [](#tls-client_certs-key_file)`tls.client_certs[].key_file`

The path of a certificate key to use.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

### [](#tls-client_certs-password)`tls.client_certs[].password`

A plain text password for when the private key is password encrypted in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 format. The obsolete `pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC` algorithm is not supported for the PKCS#8 format.

Because the obsolete pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext.

> ⚠️ **CAUTION**
>
> This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see [Secrets](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/configuration/secrets/).

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

```yaml
# Examples:
password: foo

# ---

password: ${KEY_PASSWORD}
```

### [](#tls-enable_renegotiation)`tls.enable_renegotiation`

Whether to allow the remote server to repeatedly request renegotiation. Enable this option if you’re seeing the error message `local error: tls: no renegotiation`.

Requires version 3.45.0 or later.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

### [](#tls-enabled)`tls.enabled`

Whether custom TLS settings are enabled.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

### [](#tls-root_cas)`tls.root_cas`

An optional root certificate authority to use. This is a string, representing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

> ⚠️ **CAUTION**
>
> This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see [Secrets](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/configuration/secrets/).

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

```yaml
# Examples:
root_cas: |-
  -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
  ...
  -----END CERTIFICATE-----
```

### [](#tls-root_cas_file)`tls.root_cas_file`

An optional path of a root certificate authority file to use. This is a file, often with a .pem extension, containing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `""`

```yaml
# Examples:
root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem
```

### [](#tls-skip_cert_verify)`tls.skip_cert_verify`

Whether to skip server side certificate verification.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

### [](#url)`url`

The URL of the target Redis server. Database is optional and is supplied as the URL path.

**Type**: `string`

```yaml
# Examples:
url: redis://:6379

# ---

url: redis://localhost:6379

# ---

url: redis://foousername:foopassword@redisplace:6379

# ---

url: redis://:foopassword@redisplace:6379

# ---

url: redis://localhost:6379/1

# ---

url: redis://localhost:6379/1,redis://localhost:6380/1
```