The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of CloudRedisClient.
The optional options argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned CloudRedisConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThe latest version of the Redis C++ client library is 2.37.0-rc, and the page provides access to the documentation for this and previous versions.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisClient\u003c/code\u003e class allows users to configure and manage Cloud Memorystore for Redis instances.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, which is essential for \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisClient\u003c/code\u003e, is constructed via the \u003ccode\u003eMakeCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e function.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThere are various retry policies available for \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e, including policies based on error counts and elapsed time, in addition to the CloudRedisRetryPolicy.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation includes several structs for configuring options, such as backoff, idempotency, polling, and retry policies for Redis operations.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::redis_v1 (2.42.0-rc)\n\nVersion latestkeyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [CloudRedisClient](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient)\n\nConfigures and manages Cloud Memorystore for Redis instances.\n\n### [CloudRedisConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection)\n\nThe [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) object for [`CloudRedisClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient).\n\n### [CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [CloudRedisLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [CloudRedisLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [CloudRedisRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [CloudRedisBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisBackoffPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the backoff policy.\n\n### [CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure which operations are retried.\n\n### [CloudRedisPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisPollingPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the long-running operations polling policy.\n\n### [CloudRedisRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisRetryPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the retry policy.\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### MakeCloudRedisConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [CloudRedisClient](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection). Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:\n\n- [`google::cloud::CommonOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::GrpcOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOptionList`](about:invalid#zCSafez)\n- [`google::cloud::redis_v1::CloudRedisPolicyOptionList`](about:invalid#zCSafez)\n\n| **Note:** Unexpected options will be ignored. To log unexpected options instead, set `GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CLOG=yes` in the environment.\n\n### MakeDefaultCloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]