Streaming Agents with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink¶
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® supports streaming agents to build AI workflows in Confluent Cloud.
Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud enable you to build, deploy, and orchestrate event-driven agents natively on Flink. Embedded in data streams, streaming agents can monitor and act on what’s happening in the business in real time to power intelligent context-aware automation.
Streaming Agents can use tools to interact with external systems, perform actions, or retrieve information as part of an AI workflow. By invoking tools, agents can extend their capabilities beyond simple data processing, enabling more complex and dynamic workflows in streaming applications.
With Streaming Agents, you can:
- Unify stream processing and agentic AI workflows using familiar Flink APIs, simplifying development and enabling every engineer to be an AI engineer.
- Integrate seamlessly with any tool, model, and data system.
- Access real-time context to enable agents to operate dynamically on live operational events and effectively use large language models (LLMs) as reasoning engines to plan, decide, and act.
- Ensure agents are secure and trustworthy with full visibility, control, and secure, governed event flows.
Note
Streaming agents are an Open Preview feature in Confluent Cloud.
A Preview feature is a Confluent Cloud component that is being introduced to gain early feedback from developers. Preview features can be used for evaluation and non-production testing purposes or to provide feedback to Confluent. The warranty, SLA, and Support Services provisions of your agreement with Confluent do not apply to Preview features. Confluent may discontinue providing preview releases of the Preview features at any time in Confluent’s’ sole discretion.