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Efficient, Cost-Effective Streaming with Unmatched Support
What do you like best about the product?
I really like Redpanda Streaming for its incredible customer support and impressive product quality. The cost of using Redpanda is another great feature, making it a compelling choice for my team. I also appreciate that it provides a managed BYOC Kafka solution, which is perfect for processing real-time and analytical data. Switching from Confluent to Redpanda was motivated by its cost-effectiveness and BYOC support, and the initial setup was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Faster (and ideally proactive) reaction to cluster stability issues
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redpanda Streaming processes large scale data quickly.
Modern Kafka Without the Overhead: Fast Performance, Great ROI, Proactive Support
What do you like best about the product?
What stands out most about Redpanda is how it modernizes the Kafka ecosystem without the traditional overhead. Here’s how it delivers value across our key focus areas:
UI / UX: The Redpanda Console provides a clean, intuitive, and high-performance interface that makes topic management, message inspection, and consumer group monitoring effortless for both developers and SREs.
Integrations: Its API compatibility with Kafka is flawless. We were able to leverage our existing ecosystem of connectors and tools without changing of code, making the transition seamless.
Performance: Their architecture provide significantly lower latency and higher throughput compared to JVM-based solutions.
Pricing / ROI: We’ve seen a better ROI - both in terms of cloud infrastructure costs and reduced operational "toil".
Support / Onboarding: The onboarding process was straightforward, and the Redpanda team's support is highly proactive. They feel more like partners in our architecture than just a vendor.
AI / Intelligence: We are excited about Redpanda’s vision for Data Transforms and its ability to process data in-stream. This is crucial for our AI workflows, allowing us to pre-process and clean data at the edge before it hits our models.
UI / UX: The Redpanda Console provides a clean, intuitive, and high-performance interface that makes topic management, message inspection, and consumer group monitoring effortless for both developers and SREs.
Integrations: Its API compatibility with Kafka is flawless. We were able to leverage our existing ecosystem of connectors and tools without changing of code, making the transition seamless.
Performance: Their architecture provide significantly lower latency and higher throughput compared to JVM-based solutions.
Pricing / ROI: We’ve seen a better ROI - both in terms of cloud infrastructure costs and reduced operational "toil".
Support / Onboarding: The onboarding process was straightforward, and the Redpanda team's support is highly proactive. They feel more like partners in our architecture than just a vendor.
AI / Intelligence: We are excited about Redpanda’s vision for Data Transforms and its ability to process data in-stream. This is crucial for our AI workflows, allowing us to pre-process and clean data at the edge before it hits our models.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, the platform is very stable and meets our expectations. However, if I were to point out areas for improvement:
Integrations (Kafka Connect): Our main concern at the moment is the upcoming end-of-life/deprecation of managed Kafka Connect support. For a team that relies on a streamlined, managed ecosystem, this transition introduces additional operational complexity, as we now have to rethink how we manage our connectors.
UI / UX: Console is great, more terraform (IaC) support would be a welcome addition.
Support / Onboarding: No complaints here.
Pricing / AI / Performance: In these areas, we haven't encountered any significant issues.
Integrations (Kafka Connect): Our main concern at the moment is the upcoming end-of-life/deprecation of managed Kafka Connect support. For a team that relies on a streamlined, managed ecosystem, this transition introduces additional operational complexity, as we now have to rethink how we manage our connectors.
UI / UX: Console is great, more terraform (IaC) support would be a welcome addition.
Support / Onboarding: No complaints here.
Pricing / AI / Performance: In these areas, we haven't encountered any significant issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redpanda solves several pain points that we previously faced with traditional streaming platforms:
Operational Complexity (UI/UX & Onboarding): Providing a built-in, high-quality Console, Redpanda has simplified our entire stack. This benefits us by significantly reducing the time spent on cluster management and troubleshooting, allowing our engineers to focus on building features rather than managing infrastructure.
Infrastructure Efficiency (Performance & Pricing/ROI): We’ve seen a reduction in cloud infrastructure costs and achieved much more consistent performance for our real-time data pipelines.
Ecosystem Fragmentation (Integrations): Redpanda solves the 'compatibility gap' by being fully Kafka-API compatible. This benefited us by allowing a seamless migration - we kept our existing integrations and tools while upgrading the underlying engine without any friction.
Future-Proofing (AI & Intelligence): We hope that It addresses the challenge of processing massive data streams for AI workflows. With its low-latency profile and upcoming in-stream transformation capabilities, it benefits us by providing a scalable foundation for our real-time AI and machine learning initiatives.
Business Continuity (Support): Having direct access to technical experts during onboarding and scaling has ensured that our streaming services remain highly available and reliable.
Operational Complexity (UI/UX & Onboarding): Providing a built-in, high-quality Console, Redpanda has simplified our entire stack. This benefits us by significantly reducing the time spent on cluster management and troubleshooting, allowing our engineers to focus on building features rather than managing infrastructure.
Infrastructure Efficiency (Performance & Pricing/ROI): We’ve seen a reduction in cloud infrastructure costs and achieved much more consistent performance for our real-time data pipelines.
Ecosystem Fragmentation (Integrations): Redpanda solves the 'compatibility gap' by being fully Kafka-API compatible. This benefited us by allowing a seamless migration - we kept our existing integrations and tools while upgrading the underlying engine without any friction.
Future-Proofing (AI & Intelligence): We hope that It addresses the challenge of processing massive data streams for AI workflows. With its low-latency profile and upcoming in-stream transformation capabilities, it benefits us by providing a scalable foundation for our real-time AI and machine learning initiatives.
Business Continuity (Support): Having direct access to technical experts during onboarding and scaling has ensured that our streaming services remain highly available and reliable.
Effortless Real-Time Data Publishing with Redpanda Streaming
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Redpanda Streaming for its ease of use in terms of setup and Kafka topic management, ACL management, and schema registry. The easy-to-define setup through the Redpanda web console is a big plus. I also like being able to access the APIs using the rpk tool, which provides a seamless CI/CD experience. The fast initial setup is complemented by the extensive and great documentation curated by the Redpanda team. I find the documents AI feature particularly useful as it makes it easy to search for information.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ability to set the broker node IP addresses as static from the get-go for the BYOC architecture. Ability to have basic features for networking and security such as CIDR ranges to pick and IP whitelisting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Redpanda Streaming to allow our internal teams to publish and consume data easily. It provides customers real-time data access and centralizes data storage across the organization.
Been enjoying Redpanda despite event search being limited
What do you like best about the product?
I like the Redpanda UI and how easy it is to navigate and search for topics/consumers
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the search is pretty difficult for the events in each topic. Looks like there's limit to how many events we can search from.
Also the reported metrics are a little different from other Kafka services which got me confused in the beginning; not sure if this is a bad thing tho
Also the reported metrics are a little different from other Kafka services which got me confused in the beginning; not sure if this is a bad thing tho
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're mostly using Redpanda for streaming services. I think we benefit from the performance and reasonable pricing for the services.
Easy to Use with Seamless Kafka Integration
What do you like best about the product?
I find Redpanda Streaming easy to use with its user-friendly UI. I really appreciate its Kafka compatibility, which allows for seamless integration with Kafka tools and connections. This compatibility is a key feature for me as it enhances the functionality and connectivity of my backend systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the price of bandwidth on BYOC when staying in the same zone. I'd prefer it to be free because it's free on GCP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Redpanda Streaming to address ordering, scaling, and reliability issues in data streaming for our backend.
High-Performance Streaming with Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate that Redpanda Streaming is fully Kafka compatible, making it easier to deploy and achieve high performance. The responsive support is a big plus, and I enjoy the nice UI. It's also a boon that Redpanda's performance and reliability are a lot better compared to the previous system we used.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support for Go clients leaves something to be desired, as the franz-go client often has trouble during leadership changes and coordinator transfers, causing clients to be stuck or lag. It's hard to determine if this is due to a Redpanda bug or a client-side issue. Additionally, the pricing model recently changed for the worse.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Redpanda Streaming for low-latency, async communication between services, with high availability and Kubernetes-friendly deployment, which solves our need for efficient data streaming like trade execution and ledger bookings internally.
Excellent Support and BYOC Help Us Scale Stress-Free
What do you like best about the product?
BYOC, along with the excellent support, is helping us scale our systems stress-free.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don’t see any real downsides, but you do need to bring your own operational expertise around Kafka. As with any solution, without that experience it’s easy to architect yourself into something painfully inadequate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can move much faster by using streaming data and the contracts we define in the schema registry. With Confluent, every solution became painfully expensive over time as we grew. But now with RedPanda and BYOC we know we can trust the economics of our design to grow comfortably alongside us.
Cost effective, flexible solution for Kafka users
What do you like best about the product?
Redpanda has been a powerful part of our infrastructure, it enables us to have the scalability and reliability that we need while being low touch around administration and maintenance. The Redpanda team has done as excellent job delivering a high quality product, as well as providing excellent support, guidance and continuous product and service improvements. BYOC has provided us the flexibility of running their managed service on our account, which combined with a very efficient Kafka platform, and their tooling and support, means we can focus our time and money on delivering even more value to our customers, while still having the flexibility of an onsite solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you're a Confluent or Open Source Kafka user, there will be some differences to adjust to with regards to running it yourself, as the underlying implementation is not the same, but I think overall an improvement for users in terms of management and configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides the backbone pipeline for our processing flows and connecting our various pieces of infrastructure together.
Scalability, Usability, Stability - Pick all
What do you like best about the product?
Red Panda is substantlially easier to get up and running than a traditional Kafka queueing solution; while it's also more scalable and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, nothing really. The team has been extremely helpful, the application was trivial to deploy, and we've had few if any issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need a highly available, highly scalable real-time throughput persistence solution. Red Pandas offers this to us in spades.
Quality software delivered by a quality team
What do you like best about the product?
Redpanda's team and their product have been nothing but a positive experience for our company. Our Redpanda BYOC cluster is on the frontline keeping mission critical systems up and running reliably. Throughout the entire time we have been running the cluster multiple team members have exclaimed how critical and stress relieving it has been to have Redpanda in our stack. Redpanda has simultaneously kept our systems running while also allowing us to speed up development on downstream systems. Alongside this we have had nothing but a positive experience with the Redpanda team. From the original POC and purchasing process all the way through the support relationship Redpanda has felt like they are another team inside our own company.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occassionally, the console ui has some less than great feature implementations however, the team is always quick to fix any issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Redpanda to broker all of our billable events occurring at the company and processing them out to multiple downstream services and analytics stores.
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