Go has no official Upstash SDK: use redigo over TLS with the token as password

TL;DR

Replace YOURENDPOINT, YOURPORT, and YOUR_TOKEN with the values from the console Connect tab (TCP section).

Steps

1. There is no official Upstash Go SDK. The supported path is any

RESP-speaking Go client over TLS. The docs use redigo:

2. import "github.com/gomodule/redigo/redis"

3. func main() { c, err := redis.Dial("tcp", "YOURENDPOINT:YOURPORT", redis.DialUseTLS(true)) if err != nil { panic(err) } defer c.Close()

4. if , err = c.Do("AUTH", "YOURTOKEN"); err != nil { panic(err) } _, err = c.Do("SET", "foo", "bar") // ...

}

5. Skipping TLS. Upstash has TLS on with no off switch. DialUseTLS(true) is required, not optional.

6. Looking for a password field in the console. There is none. The token shown in the console IS the password. AUTH with the token.

7. Assuming a native SDK exists because Node and Python have one. For Go, redigo or go-redis over the RESP endpoint is the documented route.

When to use

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When not to use

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Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Verified against Upstash connect-client docs: the Go example uses redigo with redis.DialUseTLS(true) and AUTH with the token; the console token is the password (no separate password exists); TLS is always on. There is no upstash redis-go repo. Source: https://upstash.com/docs/redis/howto/connect-client