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Aiven for Apache Kafka

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    Food Production

Effortless kafka management using Aiven

  • December 10, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
Aiven provides highly available Kafka features and significant redundancy. Kafka clusters boast automatic replication across multiple availability zones, guaranteeing top-notch data durability with minimal downtime.

Aiven provides end-to-end data encryption for data in transit and at rest, as well as SSO login, making it a secure choice for sensitive data.

Aiven offers seamless integration with popular tools like Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting. It simplifies the process of monitoring Kafka cluster health.
What do you dislike about the product?
Aiven abstracts most of the underlying infrastructure management, which can be both an advantage and a drawback. However, engineers with more experience may desire more control over Kafka configurations and cluster settings, which is not possible.

The logs for Kafka Connect are not separated per connector, making it difficult to retrieve logs for a specific connector.

Sometimes, the Aiven User Interface can be buggy, particularly when it comes to Kafka connectors. These connectors may display incorrect statuses, causing confusion and potential issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Apache Kafka is helping our business solve a few key problems. Firstly, it provides a reliable and scalable platform for managing our data streaming needs. With Aiven, we are able to easily set up and configure Kafka clusters, and the platform takes care of the underlying infrastructure, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.

Additionally, Aiven for Apache Kafka provides a range of advanced features and integrations, such as support for multiple protocols and connectors, which allows us to easily integrate Kafka with other systems and tools in our tech stack.

Overall, using Aiven for Apache Kafka has helped us streamline our data streaming processes and improve the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure.

    Financial Services

SRE

  • December 08, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
One of the most important features Aiven compares to other competitors:
- Latest technology trend
- Instantly customer support and guidance
- Various services to offer
- Fair pricing
What do you dislike about the product?
- Some of the document is outdated or instruction unclear
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven Kafka offer:
- no downtime when upgrade or maintenance
- lots of features like connector, vpc peering
- fair pricing
- support SSO

    Janek W.

Great managed Kafka solution

  • December 07, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
- easy to operate
- upgrades and maintenance without any big effort
- open source version of Kafka
- offers a lot of options
What do you dislike about the product?
- not clearly communicated costs for reserved IPs (but costs are very small)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
price updates

    Pasquale M.

Simply scalability with Aiven

  • December 06, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
Aiven Kafka services offer a plethora of advantages that significantly elevate the efficiency and reliability of data streaming and processing. In my opinion, the primary benefit is the ease of scalability. With Aiven Kafka, I can effortlessly scale their clusters to handle varying workloads and accommodate growing data volumes. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures seamless performance even during periods of increased demand.
What do you dislike about the product?
Less control over the configuration and tuning of the Kafka cluster. If your use case requires fine-grained control over Kafka settings, a managed service might not be the best fit
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven kafka allows abstracting away the underlying infrastructure and operational complexities. This allows my team to focus on building and managing applications rather than dealing with the intricacies of Kafka cluster deployment and maintenance.

    Information Technology and Services

Good platform for hosting and managing Kafka, w/ some support issues

  • December 06, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
Overall Aiven provides a good and relatively stable platform for hosting and managing Kafka clusters. The console is easy to use and provides clear tools for admins to create/delete/etc topics, ACLs and users, among others. Terraform (IAC) resources are available and well-documented.
What do you dislike about the product?
We faced a few unexpected technical issues/difficulties a few times. While the support channels were fairly responsive most of the time, there were a few ocassions when it felt slow for a number of days, while feeling somewhat left in the dark - more clarity would've been appreciated in those instances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Removing the need to directly install and manage the underlying infrastrcture of our Kafka platform and providing intuitive UI for managing our Kafka projects. This allows us more time to focus on providing a robust Kafka service to the teams in the company, and move faster towards our goals with Kafka solutions.

    Computer Software

Easy to use and easier to configure

  • December 05, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ease to configure the roles and access controls. Very easy to create topic and gives you a hollistic view of configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some spaces takes a lot of time to load, for example user profiles takes a lot of time to load. Sometimes, when you are trying to see the members for projects, it takes a lot more time to render list of 50 users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of use of configuration in one place and also easier to monitor the health of nodes is quite useful for us.

    Jimmy L.

Apache Kafka first time

  • December 05, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Managed services like Aiven often provide a simplified setup and configuration process, making it easier for users to deploy and manage Apache Kafka clusters without the need for extensive expertise.
Aiven typically takes care of the underlying infrastructure, handling tasks such as maintenance, scaling, and security updates. This allows users to focus more on their applications and less on managing the Kafka infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some users may prefer more control and customization over their Kafka clusters, and a managed service may limit certain configuration options compared to a self-managed setup. Evaluate whether the level of control provided by Aiven aligns with your specific requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven simplifies the deployment and management of Kafka clusters, allowing users to focus on their applications without the need for extensive Kafka infrastructure knowledge.
Aiven automates routine maintenance tasks, such as software updates and scaling operations, making it easier for users to ensure their Kafka clusters are up-to-date and appropriately sized.

    Redowan D.

Great initiative that surmises the upside of using fully managed Apache Kafka with Aiven

  • December 04, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
- Fully managed
- Fully featured
- Transparent cost
- Takes little more than a few minutes to get up and running
- Great customer support
- Easy to integrate other toolings
What do you dislike about the product?
- Smaller community
- Less known than Confluent Kafka
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a fully managed solution with minimal vendor-locking where all our pre-existing OSS tooling would work without additional code-level refactoring. Aiven solved that for us.

    Muhammad Z.

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

  • December 04, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their UI could be slow, especially when you have many things to manage. It's a trade-off for the great UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing the Kafka cluster is hard, and Aiven for Apache Kafka makes it easier for developers to manage it.

    Gidon K.

Dev team are pleased

  • November 19, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Managed solution, ease of use, delegated access.
What do you dislike about the product?
not much. most usage is by dev team which are happy. so happy in fact we are considering as the devops team to replace our log shipping tool to Aiven kafka as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
currently we use FluentD for writing business logs to s3 buckets, and there are some limitations to this solution.
we are interested in a more complete managed solution which Aiven Kafka might hold

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