Redpanda Jepsen Report: Proven Safety Under Pressure
An in-depth analysis of Redpanda’s distributed architecture validated through rigorous Jepsen testing—what we fixed, what remains, and what it means for developers building mission-critical systems.
Explore Redpanda’s official Jepsen report and what it reveals about building a truly reliable streaming platform. This detailed validation from Jepsen, the gold standard in distributed systems testing, offers transparency into our strengths, resolved issues, and the Kafka protocol limitations that impact all vendors.
Download the report to learn:
- Why Redpanda is Jepsen-verified for safety and correctness
- What consistency and liveness issues were identified—and how they were resolved
- How Redpanda’s use of Raft and transactional layers compares to Kafka’s architecture
- Where Kafka’s protocol itself introduces unavoidable anomalies
- What new APIs and operational improvements were introduced during testing
- Real-world lessons on durability, availability, and transactional guarantees
- Redpanda’s forward-looking approach to documentation and developer experience
Read the full report to understand how Redpanda delivers zero data loss and high throughput—safely and predictably.
👉 Want more context before diving into the report? Check out the blog post detailing our Jepsen journey and engineering insights.
