Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews & Product Details - Page 11

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?

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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 do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Communication was super seamless. Every time we need support Aiven team is just a message away. For example, in the PoC phase, we were looking for some on-demand thing to help us with the journey, and the team was always there to support us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Probably documentation around complex problems would be interesting. For example, we want to connect two clouds with Aiven, and yes, there were some architecture diagrams provided, but I think when the use case is not so straightforward and Aiven has already solved it with previous clients, it's better to have detailed solution descriptions on the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

That fact that everything is managed by professionals focusing on delivering a great service. With clear pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing, all is good, I believe. Great service and great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nice UI, nice terraform module, k8s operator, variety of cloud providers, ability to scale both vertically and horizontally. I like the way your documentation is structured and the fact that it is really concise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

There are pros and cons of each point that I mention. 1. As for scalability: I would highly appreciate having a possibility to scale automatically somehow. It would be precious to be able to scale based on some metrics and Kafka usage and to set minimun and maximum number of nodes. Of course, Kafka scalability may be not that straight-forward due to the fact that scaling it would surely take some amount of time and may take a lot of time if the data volume is really high; but at least having an option to scale it up and down automatically would be cool and would imply reliability and assurance in the service. 2. As for documentation: documentation is concise but sometimes I would like to have a link to dive deeper into details on how that or another thing works. And just noticed that for example on this page: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/concepts.html, the underlined topics and the UI itself looks a bit poorer than the rest of your UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Straightforward setup, management and configuration. We also tried trial version for evaluation of our needs and the whole configuration took only few minutes, super easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

In world where everything is in code including also whole infrastructure, I found only some community developed Terraform, which was also hard to set up and use for Aiven Kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

UI was very simple and friendly. Maintaining it using Terraform code was a great experience. I liked the feature of Aiven S3 connector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Initially the UI was a bit complex but then I got it and it made my life easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Really intuitive dashboard gives access to all the necessary features Kafka has to provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

There's no way to produce test messages to test consumers. Would be of great help if it could be build into the dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I could leverage some powerful workflow with the help the aiven-operator !

Integration of Prometheus monitoring is very cool as well.

And last but not the least, nice terraform provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Some documentation has been a little bit outdated, but the aiven team handle some of my pull requests to adjust the documentation/provided samples provided very quickly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

persoanlly I like the partition information about size, offset etc.

But the general User experience was good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I experienced several network disconnection from the cluster during the cluster upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.