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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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Eivind N.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2023

"Overall, quite satisfied with Aiven Kafka"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven manages the service, so we can use more time to help develop features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I would have to say the price. After we migrated to Aiven the costs have increased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/13/2023

"Happy with the features & services from Aiven"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven Kafka provides a great UI for visualising all the Kafka features in a single place. Flexible updates with prior notifications from the team. Quite easy communication with the support staff for any queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven should improve on providing the user access for different organisations. Also they must think upon providing a free version for the users to play around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2023

"Easy to set up and use."

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Built in web console and is very easy to be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The limited fuctions for the Query Editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Thank you for your review!

You can submit your feedback regarding additional functionality on the Query Editor to our product team in Aiven Ideas here: https://ideas.aiven.io/

Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka!

See how Aiven for Apache Kafka improved

Greg M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2023

"Good quality solution, though expensive"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- how fast it is possible to start it

- how easy it is possible to scale

- no infrastructrure team needed in my dev team

- available metrics integration

- recurring and often updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- plans are quite expensive, lower cost would be appreciated

- the management UI is not intuitive - especially in the context of topic management

- no SSO with Microsoft, Google etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hi Greg,

Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

Great to see that Aiven for Apache Kafka is easy to start and scale and you enjoy our regular upgrades and updates to the service.

Regarding topic management, I would suggest that you check Aiven's Open Source Project for Apache Kafka Data Governance, Klaw (you can access the project here: https://www.klaw-project.io/).

Klaw is a Data Governance toolkit for Apache Kafka topic and user management.

I will pass on your feedback to our team.

Thanks again

Markos

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abdurusul k.

System engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/19/2019

"simple and user friendly,"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- kafka part , and upgrade of kafka is simple and fast

- High quality of service

- Really reactive support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- more collaboration with our IT team

- prices ? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linh T.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2023

"aiven kafka review"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Easy setup and management

ensures high availability and easy to scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

While Aiven provides a user-friendly web interface for managing Apache Kafka clusters, users may not have access to the underlying configuration files or the ability to install custom plugins or modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/19/2023

"easy to use and stable"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The service is easy to use and stable. The SKD/API documentation is clear and informational. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

expecting better viability and statistics about kafka topic

- how many messages comes in by minute, hour, day, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hello,

Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

Great to hear that you find our API documentation clear and concise. This is always great to hear!

Regarding metrics of the Kafka topics, there is a bunch of available metrics through Prometheus. You can explore the available metrics here: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/reference/kafka-metrics-prometheus

If you would like additional metrics for the Kafka service, you can raise this in Aiven Ideas so our product organization can consider your feedback in their roadmap. You can find this here: https://ideas.aiven.io/

Thanks again for your trust in the Aiven Platform!

Best Regards

Markos

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Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/1/2021

"SAS platform for Managed Kafka service which could be started in no time"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Easy and simplistic UI and management tools. There are good blogs and documentations which comes in handy for connecting from local. Upgrades are simple and one click operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Pagination of the topics. If any action is done, it always takes you to the 1st page. Sorting on various parameters of the topic like partition, retaintion etc. Would prefer to have some sdk provided to connect from code easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishesh K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2023

"A good tool for kafka"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven is easy to use, provides the correct insights and helps understand how kafka is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing much, aiven is very helpful. If it can alert on anomalies that would be useful 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 and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka Vishesh. Alerting on anomalies in the Kafka infrastructure is something we want to enable with the service in the future.

Thank you again!