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Solid managed Kafka service with strong reliability at a cost
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven for Kafka is very easy to set-up and getting started, however, it comes at quite a steep pricing. Don't want to worry about setting up and managing Kafka, then this is great. No direct Zookeeper access is available though, which in some scenarios could be a downside. Schema registry with Karapace is a big plus, which allows for compatibility with Confluent's registry.
However, for bootstrapping a Kafka project, I'd recommend starting with open source first, to build your project and only start using this for a production scenario.
What is nice, is that all the complex logic of Kafka regarding SASL and jaas config is abstracted away. It just works.
However, for bootstrapping a Kafka project, I'd recommend starting with open source first, to build your project and only start using this for a production scenario.
What is nice, is that all the complex logic of Kafka regarding SASL and jaas config is abstracted away. It just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like mentioned before, using a managed service such as Aiven for Kafka is a trade-off between ease of use and customizability. You cannot tweak Zookeeper unfortunately.
Furthermore, web console often lags behind and is eventually consistent. The interaction speed with the cluster is slow and provisioning new resources in the cluster (i.e. topics, users, etc).
Furthermore, web console often lags behind and is eventually consistent. The interaction speed with the cluster is slow and provisioning new resources in the cluster (i.e. topics, users, etc).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Messaging as a service, and since Kafka is a de facto standard, it is great to use a service such as Aiven. All maintenance, support are taken out of hands and as a software engineer I can focus on building a product instead of maintaining infra.
Cluster System School Project
What do you like best about the product?
It is a helpful tool that gave value on Project. As a conceptor of Distributed Sytem during my School project, Aiven for Apache Kafka provides dynamic and performed environement to give life of the whole infrastructure of the Distributed system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, it may lack rigidity and documentation. However, as far as you go deep into the available infrormation about Aiven, there are complex process but useful content about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance that is to be implemented into the system embeding Apache Kafka was the main solution I found to store data in the cloud while benefitting the mai purpose of Aiven.
Dedicated and Easy-to-Use Managed Kafka Service
What do you like best about the product?
I love how Aiven for Apache Kafka makes deployment and management so easy. The solution takes the pain of using Kafka clusters away, and I can just enjoy tapping into the data streams without worrying about infrastructure. Scaling is smooth, connectivity is simple, and the monitoring tools give me confidence in stability and performance. Access to customer support available 24/7 that is quick to respond is also a big plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside is that the cost can appear a bit high for small projects, especially when scaling clusters. The learning curve for newcomers without prior experience using Kafka concepts can be steep as well. In some cases, advanced customization options are limited compared to hosting Kafka fully on-premises.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Apache Kafka helps us handle real-time data streaming without the burden of managing complex infrastructure. It solves the challenges of scalability, availability, and monitoring by providing a fully managed service. This has saved our team a lot of time and reduced operational overhead. We can integrate data pipelines more efficiently, improve system reliability, and focus on building features instead of maintaining servers.
Aiven for Apache Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Its deployment is fast and friendly use
It has built in monitoring tools, backups, upgrades and others
it has 24/7 support and also documentation to put you through
It also streamline data in Realtime
It has built in monitoring tools, backups, upgrades and others
it has 24/7 support and also documentation to put you through
It also streamline data in Realtime
What do you dislike about the product?
Premium prices but non the less I still Love it
if possible to give customers 30 days trial prior to purchase
less cost for frequency of users if possible
if possible to give customers 30 days trial prior to purchase
less cost for frequency of users if possible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zero maintenance
One click deployment
High availability
Auto scaling
Like I said before in built monitoring, backups and upgrade
All the features helped me in building real time data apps and not managing it
One click deployment
High availability
Auto scaling
Like I said before in built monitoring, backups and upgrade
All the features helped me in building real time data apps and not managing it
Easy to use Kafka hosting, saves time
What do you like best about the product?
It’s pretty easy to get Kafka clusters running without needing to worry about infrastructure. The dashboard is simple and I can scale resources or create topics quickly. I also like that backups and monitoring are already included, so I don’t need to set them up myself.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the pricing feels a bit high, especially if you need bigger clusters for production. Also, the documentation is good but can be a little confusing for new users, it takes some time to figure out the small details.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Aiven for Kafka to manage real-time data streaming between our services. It helps us send events and logs without delay and keep the system more reliable. The benefit is that we don’t need to spend time setting up servers, doing upgrades, or fixing issues, so we can focus more on building features instead of managing infrastructure.
Aiven simplifies Kafka cluster management with multi-cloud flexibility and responsive support.
What do you like best about the product?
I like how quickly I can launch and manage Kafka clusters using the clean console or Terraform support. The documentation is clear, the integrations are smooth, and the human support team actually solves problems. It saves me hours that I would have wasted on setup and maintenance.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike most about Aiven for Apache Kafka is how quickly the cost can increase once you start scaling. Some integrations are not as smooth as expected and certain advanced metrics feel limited compared to a self-managed setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven solves the grunt work of Kafka ops so I can run a real time credit scoring pipeline. I ingest card swipes, wallet top ups, and app telemetry into topics like transactions.v1 and behavioral_events.v1. Schema Registry keeps producers and consumers in sync. Feast jobs publish to features.v1. The scoring service reads scoring.requests, fetches features, calls my FastAPI model, and writes a decision to scoring.decisions plus an audit record to scoring.audit. Kafka Connect ships audits to S3 and Postgres. ACLs and VPC peering keep data private. I manage clusters, topics, and partitions with Terraform and can scale for payday spikes without babysitting brokers. The result is faster approvals, traceable decisions for compliance, and far less Ops overhead. I spend time improving the model, not patching brokers.
Aiven makes working with Kafka so much easier
What do you like best about the product?
It just works. I do not have to spend hours setting up or maintaining Kafka — Aiven handles all that in the background. Scaling is simple, the dashboard is easy to use, and if I ever get stuck, their support team actually responds quickly and knows what they’re doing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, I haven’t run into anything I’d call a real downside so far. Everything has been very smooth, from setup to daily use, and it’s worked exactly as I expected. I always find such this kind of tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Apache Kafka takes away the hassle of running Kafka myself. I don’t have to deal with server setup, scaling, or keeping things running — it’s all handled in the background. That saves me a lot of time and lets me focus on building features. It’s been reliable so far, and having that peace of mind means I can move faster without worrying about the infrastructure.
Reliable Managed Kafka Solution with Excellent Uptime and Support
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven makes it incredibly easy to set up and manage Apache Kafka without the usual operational headaches. The user interface is clean and intuitive, and provisioning a cluster takes just a few clicks. I really appreciate the automated backups, high availability, and seamless scaling. Their documentation is solid, and the support team is responsive and knowledgeable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing can be a bit on the higher side, especially for smaller teams or startups that are just getting started with Kafka. While the platform offers great value, having more flexible pricing tiers or pay-as-you-go options would make it more accessible. Also, some advanced configuration options are limited compared to managing Kafka on your own infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Apache Kafka eliminates the operational complexity of managing Kafka clusters ourselves. We no longer have to worry about infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, patching, or scaling—Aiven handles all of that. This allows our team to focus more on building data-driven features and integrating real-time streaming into our applications without getting bogged down by DevOps tasks. It’s saved us time, reduced operational risk, and improved our overall system reliability.
Quite a user-friendly and easy-to-learn interface with full control over the service.
What do you like best about the product?
Convenient in setting up a service and configuring options in a well-organized UI interface with clear descriptions. Easily learned. We can monitor the service in full access over its functionalities. Afterall, 1 month free plan to its features truly brings the user into the core of its potential and how the service can combine its ease of use to a variety of Kafka's nature.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be better if there's a terminal portal or similar user instruction guide to manage broker from a command line interface in correspondence with built-in Kafka commands. Default retention policies for messsages and their offsets should be displayed in a dedicated page or panel where users can modify freely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since I mainly use the service for my personal projects, I find myself difficult to set up my own Kakfa brokers and related servers in one simple step. And this is where Aiven's Apache Kafka takes the credit. Just a few clicks and configurations from server-side with accurate mapping of environment variables on my client side source-code and I'm good to go. I can shift all my concentration on the code's behavior and application workflow instead of spending a long time getting ready for any painful Kafka deployment.
Kafka and Aiven
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up Kafka your Kafka cluster can be very painful and timeconsuming. With help of Aiden this an be easily achieveable. Meanwhile it integration such as Kakfa connect, Kafka stream makes easily for different usecase.
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though Aiven has made setup Apacka Kafka easier since it is managed service provided cost for using kafka can easily scale up with gradual increase in you kafka consumtion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Apache Kafka as event stream. So we are developing backend for diffrent games, to build use profile based on game events we are publishing all our games event happening in kafka. We are using Aiven flink for buiding real time user profile based on these events.
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