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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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We help organizations fuel the continuous innovation needed to create awesome, data-intensive applications by using the leading open source technologies.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/17/2019

"Great experience, very easy to get up and running"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I like how quickly we can set up and tear down a Kafka cluster. It made the trial painless. Support was on point and I'm glad we can peer it to our AWS VPC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing, so far, we are having a great experience with Aiven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

M iqbal zulkarnaen N.

Software Engineer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/10/2019

"aiven simple kafka management"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I like aiven provide easy and high uptime kafka, though havent tried yet for high performance / price comparison Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

can't modify how I can connect (whitelist IP, another security option)

not all features in console software implemented (monitor some messages, performance test, etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikhil P.

Software Engineer II

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/8/2019

"Aiven"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I like the console and ease of using Aiven Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing as of now as I have not used the console full time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/11/2019

"Aiven for Kafka messages"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The AIVEN website is really nice and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

No easy way to extract the lags in the log or from api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kyle Buzzell of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Thank you for the candid review!

Aiven provides detailed gathering of Kafka telemetry and subsequent visualization through built-in dashboards using Aiven PostgreSQL(TimescaleDB) and Aiven Grafana.

We also have some additional tools ways to accomplish this. Here are some links you might find useful:

1. Aiven Service Integrations:

https://help.aiven.io/services/integrations/getting-started-with-service-

integrations

2. Aiven Kafka Telemetry and Dashboards:

https://aiven.io/blog/gain-visibility-with-kafka-dashboards/

3. Datadog Integration:

https://aiven.io/blog/datadog-meets-aiven/

4. Prometheus Integration:

https://aiven.io/blog/prometheus-can-now-be-integrated-with-aiven/

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2018

"It all just works"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The Kafka service have been great for our company. We switched from Heroku's offering. It was easy to setup and configure. We are using it for Postgres instances as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Everything has worked great, no dislikes yet for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chandan B.

Big Data Engineer

Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/11/2018

"Seamless Aiven Kafka "

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Support. Top Notch.

Ease to spin up new services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Some features like setting the retention of topic in milliseconds/seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/8/2018

"Can't complain"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It's nice to not have to worry about managing Kafka as much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The classic issue of abstracting stuff away from you leaves with with lessened control when you need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/26/2018

"All in one"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Good one stop shop for services that bigger enterprises charge more than what we're willing to pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Some of their API is a little odd and there are a number of manual touch-points in the engagement that we're wary of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/25/2018

"aiven experience"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Your process to get working is very easy for us , and it matches the way we want to get things work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Your footprint, our whole team is in Bangalore. Having someone there will be whole lot easier to have timely conversation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tuomas Lounamaa of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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We've expanded significantly past years and today have offices in Australia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, Finland, USA and Canada.

Pouria I.

Devops Specialist

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/18/2017

"Aiven makes everything easier !"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

What i like about aiven is their support. They are answering really quickly and they help even the problem is not aiven related , I learned a lot of things from them(like pgbouncer) and im looking forward to work with them even more.

Another thing is that with aiven I dont have to worry about maintenance and HA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.