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redpanda-data/connect

Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/redpanda-data/connect · homepage · Go observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 86
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 6
  • age_days: 3817
  • days_rel: 13
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 102

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

8736 stars · 959 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream processor that moves data between hundreds of sources and sinks with transformation, enrichment, and filtering via the Bloblang mapping language. Pipelines are defined in a single YAML file and run as a stateless, horizontally scalable binary or container.

Use cases

  • stream postgres database changes into iceberg tables on s3
  • pipe kafka topics to elasticsearch with transformations
  • build etl pipelines between message brokers like rabbitmq and nats
  • enrich and filter log streams before shipping to a data lake
  • set up change data capture from mysql or mongodb
  • transform json events between cloud services like s3 and bigquery

When to choose

  • you need to move and transform data between many systems with declarative YAML config
  • you want CDC from databases flowing into analytics stores as first-class events
  • you need at-least-once delivery with a stateless, horizontally scalable deployment
  • you prefer a single static binary or container over maintaining custom pipeline code

When to avoid

  • you need exactly-once processing semantics with durable state
  • you want a visual drag-and-drop pipeline builder rather than config files
  • your transformations require complex custom logic better expressed in a general-purpose language
  • you need a full streaming broker rather than a connector/processor layer

Facets

application · maturity active

streaming etl message-queue data-science configuration-management big-data databases analytics go windows cli self-hosted cloud stream-processing change-data-capture bloblang kafka data-pipelines connectors yaml-config event-streaming data-engineering real-time docker kubernetes linux macos

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