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Aiven takes care of major overhead of managing a kafka cluster and provides seamless upgrades.
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to get started. It provides necessary observability in terms of cluster health and topic statistics.
What do you dislike about the product?
While we were doing the mandatory version upgrade, the upgrade wasn't zero downtime exactly. But restarting services at our end fixed the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Aiven Kafka for our central message bus needs, and it has been remarkably reliable and efficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have enjoyed my experience with Aiven Kafka so far. We have been using it in Production for more than a year now and have not faced any issues.
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SAS platform for Managed Kafka service which could be started in no time
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Capture CDC and other events. Easy and simple without any management headeche. Reduces management overhead and increase productivity.
Good Kafka+Connect interface
What do you like best about the product?
Easy configuration interface, Kafka & connect integration feels seamless
What do you dislike about the product?
Loading times seem high at times.
For example, creating a new Kafka connect connector prompt takes a while sometimes.
Plus, topic deletion sometimes takes a while without changing anything UI wise, so the user presses the delete button several times
For example, creating a new Kafka connect connector prompt takes a while sometimes.
Plus, topic deletion sometimes takes a while without changing anything UI wise, so the user presses the delete button several times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Migrating databases, our solution uses Kafka connect and several other components to migrate our data between two databases
Aiven makes Apache Kafka simple!
What do you like best about the product?
Using AIven is the easiest way to try Apache Kafka. It saves me a lot of time and money, without thinking of setuping infrastructure and maintain it. It also has many integration, thanks to Kafka Connect. The cloud provider support is also really good. The interface is also really good and it is really easy to manage it by just using web interface. The 30 days trial is also really good and the credits is more than enough for playing around and trying Apache Kafka before using it in production, even though Aiven for Kafka is production ready.
What do you dislike about the product?
For some advanced usage, some features might not be available in Aiven. There is no way to integrate or connect to RabbitMQ. There is no storage addition to the service, make it hard to upgrade the storage without upgrading the service. I hope this feature will be supported soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I think Aiven make it easy for me to learn and experience the Apache Kafka itself. It helps me to understand more how things work. We are migrating from RabbitMQ to Kafka, and using Aiven is giving us many benefits.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for easy-to-use and has good support, Aiven for Apache Kafka is your best choice. The service has many features; even though you don't need all of them, it would be beneficial in the future. The pricing is also really fair, compared to the service they offer. You don't even need to think about your infrastructure. It offers you 30 day free trial without credit card, and I think it's really good offer.
Very smart implementation of Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven managed to do an amicable and efficient cloud-based solution. In our company, we particularly liked the simplicity of the implementation and the low latency, which allowed us to operate with minimal overhead. The technical support is also quite good and very attentive to the details. Being a cloud native company Aiven manages to integrate seamelessly with most of our infrastructure without major issues.
We also particularly like their security, as they have demonstrated to be on top of their game regarding regarding patching, secure configuration and also with their own cloud infrastructure.The fact that they are inside the European Union also facilitates GDPR compliance.
We also particularly like their security, as they have demonstrated to be on top of their game regarding regarding patching, secure configuration and also with their own cloud infrastructure.The fact that they are inside the European Union also facilitates GDPR compliance.
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't like (initially) that we couldn't roll it out in our GCP installation as that was our preferred solution. This was widely discussed internally as the main drawback compared to competitors.
However, after balancing the pros and cons, the managed cloud ended up being just fine for us.
However, after balancing the pros and cons, the managed cloud ended up being just fine for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a very high traffic site with millions of restaurant reservations. We needed a stream solution that could elegantly handle this volume while simplifying our setup. We have found Kafka to cover most of our requirements which allowed us to scale up quite quickly without the traditional limitations of RDBMS.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check the market to make sure it fits with your current infrastructure. Although it worked fine for all of us, it can be a different situation if you have a hybrid infrastructure or some other specific requirements. Fortunately, the Aiven team is very capable of doing this kind of assessment with you very honestly.
Apache Kafka on Aiven
What do you like best about the product?
The ease in which we can set up, transparency in billing, intuitive console
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. But I would prefer running my Kafka Connect workloads on Aiven if I am using a Custom Connector
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are building a real-time event-driven application and Kafka acts as Central system for all other micro-services. We are reducing point-point communication among various services
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The billing part is what I like the most about Aiven. It's transparent and not ambiguous as one of Aiven's competitors. Apart from it, the console, usability, performance, migrations, etc are very good
Useful managed service
What do you like best about the product?
Easy management and speed build-up, possible to integrate with many APIs.
What do you dislike about the product?
We would like to have possibility to have backup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to speed up the processing of our business.
Aiven Kafka Review
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven is super easy and intuitive to use. Checking out schemas, topics, and versions is super useful. Also setting up kafka clusters is quite easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be super cool to be able to see messages in a topic for a given timestamp.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are using Aiven for managing our Kafka clusters and schemas
Good tooling, fairly reliable service.
What do you like best about the product?
I think Aiven is set up quite well to support infrastructure as code - more so than other Kafka providers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think our company's experience with customer support has been a bit rough. There have been a number of times where we experienced issues with out cluster and nobody seemed to be able to figure out what was wrong, so we just had to try a bunch of things until something worked. It would have been better to have someone from Aiven who was able to investigate and diagnose our problems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using Kafka for event-driven design among a number of microservices. The upside in areas like fault tolerance and reliability have been massive.
No problems so far
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to find Services, Connection information, Topics (with partitions etc.). Stability has been good as far as I know.
What do you dislike about the product?
Messages of a topic does not always show in Aiven Console ("Provide the desired filters and click "Fetch Messages" to view messages from a specific partition / offset.") (Timeout?)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We store events about push notifications, compacted device status, and much more.
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