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What is Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a fully managed distributed event streaming service, that can be deployed in the cloud of your choice. Aiven for Apache Kafka is ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and data pipelines, streaming analytics, and any use case that requires moving huge amounts of real-time data between applications and systems. With Aiven for Apache Kafka you can set up fully managed Kafka clusters in less than 10 minutes — using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. You can easily connect it to your existing tech stack with a fully managed Apache Kafka Connect service with over 30+ connectors. Monitoring your clusters with logs and metrics is also available out of the box via multiple service integrations. Get access to a complete open source ecosystem of streaming technologies and tools around Apache Kafka to fully manage, and operate a real time data infrastructure at scale using: Aiven for Apache Kafka: the core event streaming framework allowing you to transport data within your organization Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect: a fully managed, fully open source, distributed service enabling you to integrate your existing data sources and sinks seamlessly with Aiven for Apache Kafka. Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2: a fully managed, fully open source distributed data replication service for cluster to cluster data replication, disaster recovery and geo proximity across multiple regions. Karapace®: a fully open source Kafka Schema Registry that applications can access to serialize and deserialize messages with popular formats such as AVRO, Protobuf and JSON. Aiven for Apache Flink®: a fully managed, fully open source streaming SQL engine for stateful stream processing over your data streams. Klaw: an open source data governance tool that helps enterprises exercise Apache Kafka® topic and schema governance. Aiven is ISO / IEC 27001: 2013, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Check our pricing and try our free 30-day trial at https://aiven.io/kafka.

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Product Description

Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Snap it into your existing workflows with the click of a button, automate away the mundane tasks, and focus on building your core apps.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

NO VENDOR LOCK-IN
100% Open Source, you can take your cluster anywhere you want. Launch new clusters AND move clusters between different cloud providers with a few clicks.

BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD (BYOC)
For strict control requirements, you have the option to set up Aiven services within your own Cloud Provider account. The services can be managed through the Aiven console, and the user experience remains the same as with the regular Aiven service model.

LATEST KAFKA VERSION AND FEATURES
You’ll always get access to the latest Kafka version within a few weeks of release. We offer the most features of any solution on the market, so you have a lot of options with your deployment.

WORKFLOW AND COMPLIANCE
You can deploy our Kafka solution via our web console, API, CLI and Terraform. We’re compliant with all major governance standards, which makes things easier if your company has strict requirements.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/19/2023

"Service that is worth trying"

3/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simple setup did work out of the box with no troubles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Most of my team's problems were related to keys management, they never got addressed or were addressed slowly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/22/2023

"Senior Software engineer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The UI is easy to use. Easy switching between environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It is confusing to filter by some offset value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/16/2022

"Well made UI but lack of flexibility in access rights"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It is very easy to create new clusters and enable connectivity with public cloud environments, also user management is quite simple which makes it easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I do not like that there is a lack of access rights for user management. We can either grant user read-only which gives him too little permissions or we can grant him developer, which gives him too much permissions in the Aiven Kafka Console. Since we are controlling everything via IaC, we cannot grant users anything more then read-only, but with that they cannot really "read" 99% of the stuff like see topics or schema content or on the other hand in INT or lower envirnomnets we cannot grant them to see passwords of users or check ACL's in the console. Granularity is missing badly :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrii H.

Staff Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/16/2022

"Satisfied so far with technical side - UI can be better"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simplicity. Working with aiven is straightforward and doesn't include any underwater currents. The documentation is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

UI is not optimized for small screens (13 inch laptop), and generally, can be more "smooth". Takes some time to get used to it, and it still not very convenient.

Kafka connectors are not restarting if there were no configuration change, even when I press the button - some status icon (spinning wheel) would greatly contribute to useability.

UI for connectors can be better. (https://console.aiven.io/project/stg-eu/services/replicator/connectors)

There is no buttons to jump to configuration from there, probbaly will be much better if we have unified view for connector with "tasks" section etc.

Use case - I open multiple connectors for debugging with "ctrl +click" from the list menu so they will be separate windows.

Right now I have to copy paste link on list view and then click the button "edit configuration" separately on all of them -

suggestion - all the views to have URIs which could be accessed directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/6/2023

"Easy to use"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Terraform provider is nice for automatize maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Logs exports depends on other service and the default screen to see the logs is not good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2023

"Backend Engineer"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Working out of the box, nice UI to manage the app, straightforward integration with our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Sometimes we struggle debugging or investigating the issues we encounter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/24/2022

"Easy to find topics and read their content"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

How easy it was to look up topics (using search), view the messages that are on a particular topic and then decode the b64 and read the contents. We needed to look up a mongo change stream and found what we were looking for in this message 💪 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

One thing that would have been good was to see what kind of volume a particular topic has. For instance, we wanted to know just how many messages were on a mongo change stream in case we needed to do some caching on the consumer end to be more efficient querying the DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

At Wolt it helps when trying to communicate between different microservices. In our particular case we want to see when an object changes in the core mongo database and make some changes elsewhere in a separate system.

Obviously that's the benefits of Kafka :) but as far as Aiven goes it's great to have a managed solution and a UI for seeing messages / topics etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/6/2023

"It has beengreat"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

How the data is transfered from one serive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The limitation of how bigger of a data we can send Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/4/2022

"Setting up was extremely easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Setting up was extremely easy.

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What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Verified User in Farming

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/7/2022

"Awesome integration into Terraform and DigitalOcean"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It sits right in the middle between hosting everything on your own on one hand and booking confluent cloud on the other hand. We do not need to take care of the machines, zookeeper, ... and still get Kafka up and running wiht just "terraform apply"! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

We have a small integration setup and would like to have a small (as in cheap) one machine setup to just play with it. We plan on using review Apps in GitLab and spinning up a 200 $ / month setup everytime will soon get pricy ;-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

We could run Kafka anywhere, but we are a small company and even though our developers have fun playing with operations, we need to tightly focus the small amount of time we have. And having someone else taking care of Kafka and everything surrounding it helps us keeping this focus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.