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The Redpanda Agentic Data Plane

Run agents on enterprise data, safely.

One control plane between every agent in your estate and the systems it touches, so identity, policy, cost and audit are properties of each request instead of promises in a document.

Cloud, VPC, or airgapped · SOC 2 · ISO 42001 · EU AI Act ready

Most agents never get past the pilot. They hit the same three walls.

Production means read-write access to real systems. An agent should earn that the way your workforce does: with an identity, the right level of permission, and a full record of everything it does.

01

The agent holds someone's keys.

It inherited a person's OAuth grant, so it can do anything they can. There is no sub-identity to scope, nothing to revoke, and no way to answer which agent did what on whose behalf.

02

Nobody knows what it can reach.

Each team wired its own connection to production. API keys live in DMs, allowlists have no owner, and the inventory of what AI can touch exists only in people's heads.

03

The bill arrives after the fact.

Spend shows up as one line per provider with no way to attribute it, and a runaway prompt loop is something you discover on the invoice rather than stopping at the cap.

All three are one problem: nothing sits between the agent and what it touches. Put a data plane there and they stop being policy questions.

Where it sits

In the path, not beside it.

Every agent, one you built here, one your engineers wrote, or a coding tool on someone's laptop, reaches your systems and your models through the same four stages.

Managed agentsbuilt in the UI
Your own agentsany framework
Coding agentsMCP clients
Agentic Data Plane
01Identitywho is asking
02Guardrailswhat it may see
03MCP Gatewaywhat it can reach
04AI Gatewaywhich model answers
21 connectorsauth handled
56 modelsor your own
Traces & spendOTel export
01 · who is asking

Identity

Every request carries a short-lived, scoped identity for the agent and the person it acts for. Secrets stay in the vault; the gateway attaches the real credential at call time.

  • BYO-IDP over OIDC, so agents sign in the way your people do
  • On-behalf-of tokens: a Slack mention acts as whoever sent it
  • Permission scoping per agent, revocable in one place
  • A leaked agent config leaks nothing: the credential was never in it
agentsupport-triage
on behalf ofmira@northwind.io
tokenscoped · expires 14:38
credentialattached at gateway
vaultsecret never left
02 · what it may see

Guardrails

Policy runs here, before anything leaves. Fields get masked or dropped, risky calls get refused.

  • Mask, hide or drop fields a tool returns, per tool, per agent
  • Row filters, so whole records never reach the model
  • Tool-level deny; destructive operations gated
  • Token ceilings and spend caps that reject rather than report
policyServiceNow PII scrub · ENFORCING
policyprompt-injection v4 · ENFORCING
decisionALLOW with redaction
maskedcaller_id.email, caller_id.ssn
elapsed9ms (before egress)
03 · what it can reach

MCP Gateway

Every tool call is brokered through one place: hosted connectors with auth handled, per-agent tool scoping, and field-level policy on the reply.

  • 21 hosted MCP servers, 300+ sources through Redpanda Connect
  • An agent only sees the tools it needs
  • Code Mode lets an agent compose calls in a sandbox, same policy applies
  • Immutable audit log of every call, streamed to your SIEM
serverservicenow-itsm
toolsearch_incidents
scopeok · 3 of 3 tools
argslimit clamped 500 → 25
latency186ms
04 · which model answers

AI Gateway

Your keys and your models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with routing, failover, per-agent cost attribution and budgets that refuse at the cap.

  • 56 models across 6 providers, or your own self-hosted models
  • Failover to the same model on another provider, no code change
  • Spend attributed to the agent, team and model that caused it
  • No token fees. You are billed at your own negotiated rates
requestedclaude-sonnet-5
primaryAnthropic · degraded
served byAWS Bedrock us-east-1
cost$0.0135 → support-triage
budget$931 / $1,000 · 93%
For the people who sign

The four questions this has to survive.

CIO

Consolidate without betting the estate.

  • One control plane instead of a tool per team
  • No forced data-platform decision. Works alongside Foundry, a lakehouse, Azure or M365
  • Legible TCO you can defend when the CFO asks
  • EU AI Act posture you can show a board
CFO

Make AI spend attributable and cappable.

  • One consolidated line instead of a dozen overlapping tools
  • Cost per team and per agent, forecastable
  • Ceilings that refuse requests at the cap, not report the overrun
  • No token resale. You keep your own negotiated provider rates
CISO

Replace shadow AI with a sanctioned path.

  • Runs in your cloud, your VPC, or airgapped, with hard egress boundaries
  • BYO-IDP over OIDC, on-behalf-of tokens, permission scoping per agent
  • Audit-ready trail of every action, streamed to your SIEM
  • Governs agents across the estate, not only ours
CTO

Give engineers a credible build path.

  • BYOA registry: LangChain, CrewAI, ADK, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK
  • Open protocols end to end: MCP, A2A, OTel, on native Kubernetes with CI/CD
  • One gateway with BYOM and multi-model choice
  • Open enough to sit beside what you already run
AttestedSOC 2 Type IIISO 27001ISO 42001GDPRHIPAAEU AI Act
Kannan Dorairaj

"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

Where we are

Built for the future. Available today.

Four surfaces carry production traffic now. One is in preview and one is not built, and we would rather you learn that here than in month two.

Managed agents & BYOA registryGA
MCP Gateway & hosted connectorsGA
AI Gateway, cost & budgetsGA
Audit log & OTel tracesGA
Tool-level data policiesPreview
EvalsNot yet
Evals are on the roadmap. Today you export the spans and score them in Braintrust or your own harness, which several teams do.

Bring an agent you are about to deploy.

In thirty minutes we will show you what it can reach today, and what it can reach once the plane is in front of it.

Cloud, VPC, or airgapped · SOC 2 · ISO 42001 · EU AI Act ready