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Super easy to use, no hassle Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is easy to use. I don't have to go searching through a confusing series of menus to find what I want; everything I use most frequently is just a click away.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to see the events in a given topic through the dashboard. This isn't the end of the world since I can just use a program like Kadeck to view events, but it would be nice to have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently we've been mostly doing some testing and light development with Aiven but we intend to use this for all of our event-driven microservices in the future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's definitely worth the money.
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A Good Stable Kafka Platform
What do you like best about the product?
I've been running Kafka for a year in production now and it can be very complex to manage and recover if you ever find yourself in that that scenario. Aiven offers easy upgrade paths and the Avro schema library is still quite buggy in the console but solid when used within Kafka which is invaluable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Aiven console is quite buggy and lacks features for user management. We would like more granular control over the RBAC system but at the moment it seems to be admin or nothing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka is the core of out platform and to have it fully managed so we can focus on building the tech around it gives us great peace of mind.
first steps with aivrn kafka
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact of having a web based app to browse the topics and environments. Accessing user groups, partitions...
Intuitive for basic use.
Intuitive for basic use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The secured access is not explained easily and also the no easy access to list messages on a topic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka was a solution chosen in our project to handle massive messages communications, aiven has made the use of kafka plateform easier
Easy to get started with Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to get started with Kafka. Nice GUI that was easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Fixed Puclic IP of Kafka Connect for white listening purposes would be nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintanance of Kafka clusters. Creating POCs on Kafka which if you need to host the Kafka cluster yourself is much more time consusming.
It's just Kafka made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Having a nice interface with really good options to better configure and setup kafka topics and so.
What do you dislike about the product?
I struggled a bit at first to reset an offset from a topic, since we had all those good options I thought there was an easier way of doing that, but yeah, you can always make use of the confluence platform to do it directly through its interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High traffic messages regarding events inside our platform.
Great Kafka as a service
What do you like best about the product?
The transparent pricing
Back office interface
Terraform provider
Back office interface
Terraform provider
What do you dislike about the product?
Cannot choose disk size precisely
No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment)
No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka cluster hosting
Aiven was a good fit for a startup just getting into Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
We were comparing Aiven to Confluent, as we wanted a managed solution for our small engineering team. Confluent limited bandwidth and required an up-front commitment for their enterprise tier, whereas we just wanted a monthly bill based on compute power. We also wanted managed Schema Registry and (bonus) Connect, which Aiven had right out of the box. We enjoyed the free trial with the managed components as it let us build out our infrastructure. Also, Aiven just "felt right" when we started using it via the console.
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though it is insecure, I'd like an option for plaintext connections. It would make it easier to prototype and get started, which was when we were doing our vendor comparing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a robust system for collecting user interaction events (used for analytics) and inter-service communication for our backend components. So far we are still building, but we enjoy the ability to build real-time applications (our existing Kinesis solution has about a 15 min delay for consuming backend events).
Great capacity of work very reliable and safe.
What do you like best about the product?
The control panel helps a lot with the basic concepts settings. The database service based on the cloud is really reliable, I also like that it makes the way of working easier. The technical support area is also efficient and can really solve some problems quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some functions are limited, for example the records can not be searched or filtered easily, it would be very useful to search or filter through the different servers. On the other hand the summary of metrics is a list of graphics and you can not choose what I want to see.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It was a great solution for the storage of our operational database, the reliability and support offered by this software is very good, this allows us to make the transactions more and more focused on the automated real-time functionality, without this tool it would be something impossible to do.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is very easy to use and very safe, it must be said that some security settings, for example, from the database, you have to dedicate a considerable amount of time, but all starts are difficult, after having done all this configuration everything will be much faster.
Gets the hassle of maintaining out of the loop
What do you like best about the product?
I have managed kafka before and aiven gets the hassle out of rebalancing and stuff out of the loop
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no support for signalfx which I don't like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a bit complex :)
simple and user friendly,
What do you like best about the product?
- kafka part , and upgrade of kafka is simple and fast
- High quality of service
- Really reactive support
- High quality of service
- Really reactive support
What do you dislike about the product?
- more collaboration with our IT team
- prices ?
- prices ?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- kafka as a service is always better than the legacy kafka cluster with VM, less administration, high availability
- Time to market
- Better scaling according to the business needs
- Time to market
- Better scaling according to the business needs
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