Redis connector

Use your Redis data for reporting, automation and AI.

Data Panda brings the Redis caches and key spaces behind your applications together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn it into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your team uses every day.

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About Redis

The in-memory data store behind your app's hot path.

Redis is an in-memory key-value store that holds caches, sessions, queues, leaderboards, pub/sub channels and vector indexes for the application sitting in front of it. It speaks a small set of data structures (strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, geospatial, HyperLogLog) and serves them in sub-millisecond round trips, which is why it ended up in front of almost every web app, mobile backend and microservice that needs a fast operational layer.

The point of pulling Redis into a warehouse is not to query the cache itself. It is to make the operational layer visible: which keys get hit and which get evicted, how big the queue backlog is by hour, which sessions are alive per tenant, what the cache hit rate looks like per route. That data lives next to Salesforce revenue, Stripe billing and the application's Postgres or MongoDB record, and the questions about cost-per-DAU on the cache and queue suddenly have an answer in the same place finance asks them.

What your Redis data is for

What you get once Redis is connected.

Operational-layer reporting

Cache, queue and session telemetry joined to revenue and CRM in SQL.

  • Cache-hit rate per route, tenant and release
  • Queue depth and lag by job type and hour
  • Session-store growth and TTL drop-off per cohort

Cache and queue automation

Let Redis state changes fire actions across the rest of the stack.

  • Queue backlog over threshold pages on-call in Slack
  • Eviction spike on a key class opens an ops ticket
  • New tenant cache size pushes a usage event to billing

AI workflows

Use the cache layer's signal to score behaviour and shape AI features.

  • Cache-miss prediction so the warm-up job hits the right keys
  • Session-pattern anomaly detection for fraud and abuse
  • Vector-index usage analysis for retrieval relevance tuning

Custom apps on your data

Internal tools that read Redis telemetry without raw cluster access.

  • Per-tenant cost-and-load console for the platform team
  • Queue-health board the on-call rotation reads daily
  • Customer-facing usage view tied to plan limits
Use cases

Use cases we deliver with Redis data.

A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on Redis data. Pick the one that matches your situation.

Cache-hit rateHit, miss and eviction per route, tenant and release.
Queue backlogDepth, lag and processing time per job type and hour.
Session-store growthActive sessions, TTL drop-off and store size per tenant.
Eviction reasonsWhich keys go first under maxmemory pressure, and why.
Pub/sub throughputChannel volume, subscriber count and message-loss flags.
Vector-index usageQuery count, recall and latency per RediSearch index.
Key-space sprawlPatterns growing past expectations, by prefix and size.
Cluster slot balanceLoad per shard, hot keys and resharding signal.
Cost per DAUCache and queue spend tied to active users and tenants.
Replication lagPrimary-replica drift trended against deploy and load.
Real business questions

Answers you will finally get.

What is our Redis costing us per active user?

Cache and queue spend joined to active-user and tenant counts in the warehouse, so the cost line gets a denominator. Reveals which tenants are overusing the cache, which routes are hot, and where a smaller maxmemory or a different eviction policy would save money without breaking the app.

Why did the application get slow on Tuesday?

Cache-hit rate, eviction count, queue depth and replication lag plotted on the same timeline as deploys and traffic, with the application's Postgres or MongoDB metrics next to it. The Tuesday slowness story stops being a guess and becomes a chart.

Which keys and patterns are growing faster than the cache plan allows?

Key-space sprawl tracked by prefix and size, with growth rate against the maxmemory budget. Flags the prefix that quietly doubled last sprint and is now causing eviction of keys you wanted to keep warm.

Value for everyone in the organisation

Where each function gets value.

For finance leaders

Cache and queue spend tied to active users, tenants and revenue. The Redis bill stops being a flat infrastructure line and starts having a per-customer denominator finance can defend in the budget review.

For sales leaders

Per-tenant usage of the cache and queue surfaced on the CRM account. Account managers can talk concretely about plan limits, overage and upgrade triggers instead of waiting for engineering to dig out a number.

For operations

Cache-hit, eviction, queue-depth and replication-lag history kept in one place across deploys and traffic spikes. The on-call post-mortem starts from a chart, not from a hunch.

Ideas

What you can automate with Redis.

Pair with BigQuery

Land Redis telemetry in BigQuery for cache-hit analysis

Cache-hit, eviction, queue-depth and session-count metrics from Redis land in BigQuery alongside application events from Postgres or MongoDB. Cost-per-DAU, hot-key analysis and queue-lag trending all run in SQL, on the same warehouse the rest of the business uses.

Pair with Slack

Route Redis alerts to the right Slack channel

Queue-backlog over threshold, eviction spikes on critical key classes and replication-lag breaches push into Slack as actionable messages with the affected tenant and route attached. The on-call rotation gets context, not just a red dot from a monitoring tool.

Pair with PostHog

Correlate Redis cache misses with PostHog product events

Cache-miss and eviction events from Redis line up next to PostHog product events on the same user and session id. Slow-feature investigations stop bouncing between tools and the team sees whether the slow checkout was a cold cache or a slow query downstream.

Pair with HubSpot

Push per-tenant Redis usage onto HubSpot accounts

Cache size, queue throughput and session count per tenant land on the HubSpot company record as custom properties and timeline events. CS sees which accounts are pushing plan limits before the support ticket arrives, and account managers have a real number for the upgrade conversation.

Your existing tools

Your data lands in a warehouse. Your BI tools read from it.

You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your Redis data lives.

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Excel Sheets & pivots
Three steps

From Redis to answers in three steps.

01

Connect securely

OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.

02

Land in your warehouse

Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.

03

Reporting, automation, AI

We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.

Two ways to work with us

Pick the track that fits how you work.

Track 01

Self-serve

We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.

  • Redis connector configured and running
  • Warehouse set up in your cloud account
  • Clean access for your Power BI, Fabric or Tableau team
  • Documentation on what's in the data model
  • Sync monitoring so you're warned before reports break

Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.

Track 02

Done for you

We build the whole thing, end to end.

  • Everything in Self-serve
  • Dashboards built to the questions your team actually asks
  • Automations between your systems
  • AI workflows scoped to real tasks your team runs
  • Custom apps where a dashboard does not cut it
  • Ongoing delivery at a pace that fits your team

Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.

Before you book

Frequently asked questions.

Who owns the data?

You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.

How fresh is the data?

Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.

Do I need a warehouse already?

No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.

Redis has no fixed schema. How does that land in a SQL warehouse?

Key-space patterns are inferred from prefix and value type, not from a declared schema. We sample by prefix, classify the value structure (string, hash, list, set, sorted set, stream) and project per-pattern metrics like count, size and TTL into warehouse tables. The tables are the patterns the application writes day to day, not a guess.

What about the 2024 Redis license change and the Valkey fork?

Redis moved from BSD to a dual RSALv2 / SSPLv1 license in 2024, which prompted the Linux Foundation to fork Valkey from the last BSD-licensed version. The connector reads the wire protocol both projects share, so the warehouse pipeline works against either Redis Cloud, self-hosted Redis under the new license, or a Valkey deployment without a code change on our side.

GDPR-compliant
Data stays in the EU
You own the warehouse

A first deliverable live in four to six weeks.

We review your Redis setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.