# Integrating Grafbase and Redpanda for seamless real-time features

DevFeed: [Integrating Grafbase and Redpanda for seamless real-time features](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/integrating-grafbase-and-redpanda-for-seamless-real-time-features-12707.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.redpanda.com/blog/integrating-grafbase-real-time-features>)

Author: Chandler Mayo

Published: 2025-09-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Redpanda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redpanda.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [Apache-Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apache-kafka.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [config](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/config.md>), [extensions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extensions.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to integrate Apache Kafka with a federated GraphQL API using Grafbase Extensions and Redpanda. It covers declarative configuration for publishing and subscribing to event streams without deploying additional subgraph servers or writing glue code.

## Source excerpt

Grafbase launched native support for Kafka through Grafbase Extensions and Redpanda is the ideal streaming engine to power it. Here's how to integrate them.