What is Valkey?

• Valkey is a Linux Foundation-backed open-source fork of Redis

• Created in April 2024 after Redis changed to a less permissive license

• Backed by AWS, Google, Snap, Ericsson, Oracle, and others

• Forked from Redis 7.2.4

• Latest version: Valkey 9.0 (released 2025) with improved scalability

• While it aims to be Redis-compatible, there are implementation differences

Answer

Unfortunately, Valkey has not been fully tested with LangSmith Deployments at this time and should not be used for self-hosted environments.