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    Apache Kafka is an open source distributed streaming platform to build real-time data pipelines for streaming apps. Instaclustr provides a fully managed service for Apache Kafka®-SOC 2 certified and hosted on AWS. Our solutions are proven & trusted by the worlds largest and most innovative companies
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    Instaclustr is a leading managed service provider for enterprise grade deployment of open source Apache Kafka. We offer a holistic operational service for businesses running global-scale, always-on applications that require a massively scalable, performant and reliable streaming platform. With 50M+ node hours of operational experience and 5PB+ of storage under management, we confidently commit to industry-leading SLAs backed by enterprise-level support.

    Our offering is feature-rich and powers business-critical real-time applications:

    • Live elastic scaling
    • Virtual Private Clusters with an option to pick your own VPC
    • Extensive monitoring including Consumer lag
    • Schema Registry
    • REST proxy
    • Data and network encryption
    • Service Broker APIs for Kubernetes
    • Prometheus integration
    • Account, Access and Session control
    • Instance types for every use case

    With experience from large scale deployments of data layer technologies, we have built optimized solutions and procedures to operate massive-scale open source Kafka clusters including proactive monitoring & alerting, daily health-checks, vulnerability assessments and live patching, live version upgrades, live node-replacements, and automated maintenance operations - fully seamless to customers.

    Instaclustr Managed Kafka https://www.instaclustr.com/solutions/managed-apache-kafka/ 

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    Highlights

    • Open source Apache Kafka is the streaming platform of choice for real-time applications. No license fees, no vendor lock-in, huge community support, scalable, reliable, performant and a proven solution for always-on low-latency real-time applications.
    • Leave the operational complexity with us and focus on your core business. Production-ready Kafka backed by expert, proactive support to ensure your real-time applications can scale with your business, deliver low-latency streaming data under high workloads, and be always available.
    • Confidently run your applications - The only Kafka MSP with Five 9s Availability SLA (12+ nodes) with an agreed Latency SLA so your real-time applications can serve your customers 24x7; These SLAs are also backed with industry-best compensation.

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    At Instaclustr, we pride ourselves on outstanding customer support. All customers using our managed service enjoy enterprise-level support by a team of highly experienced Kafka specialists and operators. All customers enjoy the same levels of proactive operational monitoring and support with industry-best response times. Support Site - https://support.instaclustr.com , Support Policy - https://www.instaclustr.com/company/policies/support/  support@instaclustr.com , sales@instaclustr.com 

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    11 external reviews
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    Nick M.

    All the best bits of open source software without any of the bad bits

    Reviewed on Sep 15, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Kafka is an awesome piece of technology that we can use in production, at scale, with confidence because Instaclustr has taken the hard work of managing Kafka out of our hands. Things will always go wrong, but I have complete trust in Instaclustr to fix problems with our Kafka cluster before they hurt us, I have this trust, because they have saved us in the past and I know they will keep doing so into the future. Easily one of the best infrastructure decisions we've made.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    We've had a couple of issues hooking up Dynatrace (our monitoring tool).
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Our entire platform is message-driven, we planned it this way and have built it from the ground up with Kafka as the backbone of our message delivery. It is a vital cog in our platform and we couldn't be happier with the result so far!
    Financial Services

    Excellent Kafka service provider

    Reviewed on Sep 10, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    They are very quick to respond to issues and technical requests that we need performed on our Kafka clusters. They do a great job with our clusters as we have not had serious issues with it that wasn't our own doing.
    We also heavily poll their metrics API for visibility on our end and it's all worked great.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    None really - there's a small security risk in that we need to hand over IAM keys so they can perform things in our AWS account but that's something we can't work around.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Not spending engineering time to fix kafka issues.
    Financial Services

    Knowledge in Kafka management with the greatest possible security

    Reviewed on Sep 09, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Agility in customer service to solve customer problems
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Must to have a training area for Kafka and Cassandra
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Backup of Cassandra in real time. We can recoved in any time our database.
    Recommendations to others considering the product:
    To create an area to have a playground only to test your plataform
    Banking

    Apache Kafka review

    Reviewed on Sep 09, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Apache Kafka is very well suited where the deployment entails getting a very large number of small messages at extremely high rates—4 million-plus messages a secon
    What do you dislike about the product?
    I have find anything for dislike yes sometimes due to my internet issue I face little problem while accessing kafka
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Kafka is considered to be in the class of applications known as message-oriented middleware
    This are some of the benefits
    Decouples producer applications from consumers, allowing each to operate at its own pace and without the awareness of the other.
    An enabler for event-driven applications. These are applications that generate and/or react to domain-specific events. This is in contrast to the more traditional request-response style messaging patterns.
    Consumer Goods

    Reliable service, some scope for improvement

    Reviewed on Jun 17, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    The team supporting the service has a high level of expertise. Deep technical questions are answered without hassle, and communication is straightforward with them. There is a good level of trust to the Instaclustr team from the team I manage (technical consultants, architects).
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Availability of the team is not always good - hard to work between CET and AEST timezones. Sense of urgency is sometimes lacking as they are not exposed to the end users / client.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Production environment is managed by Instaclustr. Despite the extra cost associated with this, reliability is improved by having a dedicated specialist team and customer confidence is improved.
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