# redis

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

**Type:** Rate\_limit ▼

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

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

A rate limit implementation using Redis. It works by using a simple token bucket algorithm to limit the number of requests to a given count within a given time period. The rate limit is shared across all instances of Redpanda Connect that use the same Redis instance, which must all have a consistent count and interval.

Introduced in version 4.12.0.

#### Common

```yml
# Common config fields, showing default values
label: ""
redis:
  url: redis://:6379 # No default (required)
  count: 1000
  interval: 1s
  key: "" # No default (required)
```

#### Advanced

```yml
# All config fields, showing default values
label: ""
redis:
  url: redis://:6379 # No default (required)
  kind: simple
  master: ""
  tls:
    enabled: false
    skip_cert_verify: false
    enable_renegotiation: false
    root_cas: ""
    root_cas_file: ""
    client_certs: []
  count: 1000
  interval: 1s
  key: "" # No default (required)
```

## [](#fields)Fields

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

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

**Type**: `string`

```yml
# 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
```

### [](#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**: `""`

```yml
# Examples

master: mymaster
```

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

Whether custom TLS settings are enabled.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

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

Whether to skip server side certificate verification.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

### [](#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`.

**Type**: `bool`

**Default**: `false`

Requires version 3.45.0 or newer

### [](#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**: `""`

```yml
# 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**: `""`

```yml
# Examples

root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem
```

### [](#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**: `array`

**Default**: `[]`

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

The path of a certificate to use.

**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**: `""`

```yml
# Examples

password: foo

password: ${KEY_PASSWORD}
```

### [](#count)`count`

The maximum number of messages to allow for a given period of time.

**Type**: `int`

**Default**: `1000`

### [](#interval)`interval`

The time window to limit requests by.

**Type**: `string`

**Default**: `"1s"`

### [](#key)`key`

The key to use for the rate limit.

**Type**: `string`