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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.
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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
Easy and powerful way to run Kafka as a service
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup and integration with Avro, which we use for building schemas for data serializer. Also very easy to get it initially up and running, view, frontend interfaces, very clear and logical.
What do you dislike about the product?
The validation for the Avro schema in Avro interface is frontend-level. Perhaps it would be a nice idea to prevent sending an invalid Avro schema when calling Aiven API directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Both using Kafka as a service centralize our Avro schema registry so applications can fetch it remotely in runtime-level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give a try ;)
Used Aiven Kafka for Staging and Production
What do you like best about the product?
Simple set up and monitoring. Can easily understand what is happening in Kafka because we have easy visibility into the different topics.
What do you dislike about the product?
Until now, everything works pretty well tbh.
It's a little expensive, but that's about it.
It's a little expensive, but that's about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are doing credit scoring and use Aiven kafka as a message bus for our scoring system. We built a full suite of streaming services around it.
Easy, reliable and competitively priced Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
The technical reliability with Aiven is fantastic. In the rare case that something does go wrong, one can count on Aiven putting their best foot forward in support situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Aiven is still an up and coming provider and there are rough edges being solved over time. For more total or exotic use cases that could present a problem with lead time, as you might have to negotiate the needed features being implemented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All operational (transactional, real-time and cache) database storage is hosted on Aiven. The reliability and ecosystem support of Aiven Kafka specifically has allowed us to transition more and more towards automated real time functionality where before it was technically infeasible.
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