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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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Muhammad Z.

Blogger

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/4/2023

"Aiven for Apache Kafka Provides an Easy Way for Managing Kafka Cluster"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka provides great UI for managing Kafka, from managing Kafka clusters, topics, consumer groups, and many configurations. It also supports multiple authentication, not only providing security but also a convenient way to interact with Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Their UI could be slow, especially when you have many things to manage. It's a trade-off for the great UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hi Muhamad,

Glad to hear you are enjoying Aiven for Apache Kafka as a way to simplify how you manage your Kafka clusters!

Thank you for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

Markos

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/2/2024

"Simple and intuitive"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The UI/ console is very simple and intuitive eleminating abstracting complexities whic meks it easy to use, understnd and visualise. The Terraform support also makes the life of developer easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Though not frequent and I personally have not experienced any, I have the team complain about slow message processing particularly in non-prod environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zait A.

Freelance

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2024

"I've had a fantastic experience with Aiven!. Highly recommended!"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven Platform?

The user-friendly interface and robust monitoring features and easy integration and implementation with my favorite languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven Platform?

Nothing at the moment. Aiven is fantastic! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos A.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/21/2023

"Reliable and Responsive Kafka Hosting Service"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

We have been running Aiven’s Apache Kafka service in our Industrial IoT data ingestion system. They have been a reliable and responsive partner for our organization's event-driven architecture, enabling us to run our systems smoothly with a small team of engineers.

Their responsiveness to customer support requests is remarkable. Whenever we've encountered issues or needed assistance, their team has promptly and effectively addressed our concerns. With their deep expertise in Kafka, it is reassuring to have their knowledgeable professionals available to assist us whenever needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The one limitation in using Aiven (or any managed Kafka service for that matter) is the difficulty to run custom connectors or plugins in your cluster. I understand the difficulty involved in taking in external code while providing gurantees or security and stability. Regardless, the benefits outweight this limitation and we are willing to pay the price of running our own little Connect cluster for our custom code as a satellite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Aiven Apache Kafka powers our Industrial IoT data ingestion services. With Kafka we can ingest large quantities of data reliably while mantaining a lot of flexibility to evolve our data pipelines over time. With Kafka at the core of our architecture we can add or update our systems to scale or meet new requirements with reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/1/2023

"Everything has been good so far"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simple to setup, reliable. I enjoy the debugging features on to console, such as viewing message queues, so I don't have to set up my codebase to check everything is working ok. In fact I think I would enjoy any additional features added to the console for making setting up, debugging, viewing messages etc. easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

We are a mid-stage start-up and still having trouble utilizing all of the free tier capacity. To be honest as a poor start-up (especially if we had started using aiven earlier) we would prefer to have a less reliable cheaper instance at first that we can scale up later once we need proper reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian W.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2023

"Aiven makes light work of an otherwise rather complex solution."

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I've had to run Kafka clusters in the past and had to dedicate specialist teams and resources just to kee the lights on. In contrast, I set up my cluster in Aiven when I first joined and I haven't had to touch it--it just works! Saves me countless hours and resources! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

There isn't much to dislike when it quite literally runs in the background. So, maybe not really a "dislike" so much as a request: custom domain mains for Kafka clusters. I use a single cluster in a multi-tenant environment; I give each tenant their own topics and secure them that way, but it would be awesome if I could whack my own domain in front of the cluster! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hi Brian,

Thanks for the review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka! We are glad to hear that Aiven for Apache Kafka saves time and resources for your team and organization.

I have passed on your feedback regarding custom domain names for Kafka clusters and will inform you once this is available in the future.

P.S. For fin-grained topic, ACL and user management, you can check Aiven's Open Source project Klaw, which provides data governance for Apache Kafka.

Link here: https://www.klaw-project.io/

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Markos

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Burak O.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/21/2023

"Enterprise grade solution, professional service, startup friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven Platform?

Aiven not only provides a really effortless to set-up, highly flexible to customise and incredibly robust to operate platform but also offers white-glove support and customer service. They understand, appreciate and tailor their approach to start-up's needs and wants, which is invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven Platform?

To be perfectly honest, nothing comes to mind aside from slight confusion in pronouncing Aiven:) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Francisco E.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/11/2023

"Easy and straight forward setup"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Being able to use terraform to setup the kafka and kafka connectors had been quite useful. Everything can be automated and scripted. We can upscale at ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The terraform library could be improve to avoid so many terraform lists for kafka components, etc. and instead use just mapped objects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Thanks for your review Francisco!

Glad to see you are enjoying Aiven's Terraform provider!

You can directly add your feedback here: https://ideas.aiven.io/

Our product team is reviewing user feedback on an ongoing basis and will be able to get back to you with an update.

Thanks for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka!

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Markos

Verified User in Gambling & Casinos

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2023

"Humble but honest tool for Kafka"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

This tool is not something overloaded with features. I have used many tools for various purposes around software development, it's not like datadaodge where unexperienced user would be overwhelmed with options and colors. The user interface is friendly, the most important things you need are available for user to see. Great thing is schema comparator, works like good old JSON Formatter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I don't think it's something on Aiven side although I noticed that sometimes site is not responding and topics are loading very very slow, but like I said, might be caused by the fact the infrastructure I work with is enourmous. There is a thing though that I notices inconvenient. When trying to fetch messages the UI loads them (sometimes I get timeout, but that's fine) although then it is impossible to perform any search and it might be that you need to manually click thorough hundrets of nodes to look for something Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adam .

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2023

"It is always accessible and never faced any downtime"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

the ui present everything that you need for development and you can simply use ui to manage everything on the kafka rather than using console and also the notifications that its giving about for example expiring certs or etc is cool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

the really bad problem is that whenever you open the ui with a lot of components in it like list of schemas the ui become really really slow and sometime unusable :( Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.