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Rafael L.
RL
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very Good Support"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The support of Aiven helped us several times, solving a lot of our doubts and issues. They always respond very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

We didn't experience any problem yet. Everything is just working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production
UM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to get started with Kafka"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Very easy to get started with Kafka. Nice GUI that was easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Fixed Puclic IP of Kafka Connect for white listening purposes would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PG
SRE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Gets the hassle of maintaining out of the loop"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I have managed kafka before and aiven gets the hassle out of rebalancing and stuff out of the loop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

There's no support for signalfx which I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akram Y.
AY
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome, easy and very informative console "
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

You have got everything on the dashboard. I like especially that you can create topics and view Kafka logs and turn off the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I could not find any issue so far. Everything looks awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Easy way to use Kafka without dealing without the need to stand it up yourself"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- Dealing with the complexity of installing and running the Kafka is taken away from you.

- It had sensible configuration out-of-the-box so I didn't have to deal with the myriad of Kafka settings.

- Support for log compacted topics.

- Integration with other third party services.

- I also liked having a 30-day trial period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- The server certificate is not signed by a public CA, so additional configuration is needed for clients to add a truststore. My guess is that each server cert is dynamically generated for each new user doing the trial, so this is a minor issue. But I wonder if a wildcard cert signed by a public CA would still give the security you want, and give the convenience of not worrying about a truststore.

- Aiven requires clients use a client certificate. This is reasonable, but adds friction for trial users who need to deal with creating a keystore for any clients they want to use. If there were documentation that showed the explicit steps to create the keystore (and trustore, from the previous point), that would be very helpful. You could go even further and pre-create the keystore and trustore, along with instructions for how to configure clients to use them, such as a Java client, of the Kafka Tool GUI (http://www.kafkatool.com/). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction
CC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I really recommend aiven"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

facility of managing the service, starting up and shutting down, creating topics and managing schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

it is a little bit difficult to find logs and to configure ssl. but with online help from aiven it is OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great Kafka as a service"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The transparent pricing

Back office interface

Terraform provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Cannot choose disk size precisely

No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
IB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data Analyst"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The interface is really user friendly, clear and clean.

It's really easy to set-up new topics on Kafka, really easy to monitory the LAG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

We can not create an auto export of the kafka logs to create a monitoring tool to see if there is some messages lags on our primes. we need to setup an entire new solution on aiven... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick P.
PP
Co Founder
Sports
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Aiven Kafka"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The best thing about our Kafka setup on Aiven is they supply us with a hassle free, managed, extremely reliable service. No need for any Ops on our side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Could have a better topics/schema registry UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kyle Buzzell of Aiven for Apache Kafka

Hello Patrick,

Thanks for the review.

Just wanted to let you know that we have now implemented the first version of schema registry UI and will continue to improve it as we move forward.

In the meantime, you can use other open source tools such as Landoop topics UI to connect to Aiven Kafka to view data in topics. Just note that you will need an Business or higher plan to do so:

$ docker pull landoop/kafka-topics-ui

$ docker run --rm -it -p 8000:8000 \

-e "KAFKA_REST_PROXY_URL=https://avnadmin:password@your-kafka-service.aivencloud.com:rest-port" \

-e "PROXY=true" \

landoop/kafka-topics-ui

Hope you find this helpful and thanks again!

Verified User in Real Estate
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great MQ as a service"
What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Not worring about infra is the best thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing so far, everything that I needed from Aiven was ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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