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My Experience using Aiven for cloud based microservices
What do you like best about the product?
it's super easy to access info for connecting to the database from the CLI, through code or a GUI. The service itself is easy to automate through Terraform or the web.
What do you dislike about the product?
The logs are not very useful since you can't easily search or filter. it would be nice to be able to search/filter through your different services. The metrics overview is just a large list of charts and does not let you choose what you want to see.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
centralizing database access and management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check out their Terraform integration - makes it really easy to set up!
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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.
Modern Software and Painless Setup
What do you like best about the product?
Modern Software:
- Latest version of PostgreSQL database engine available (11.2). Our previous hosted database provider was stuck at version 9.6.
Features:
- Quick and easy database forking.
- Painless Google Cloud Platform VPC peering setup at no extra cost.
- Easy to switch back-and-forth between VPC and public network.
- Direct access to the secondary read-only replica on high availability plans. Other providers usually hide the replica and only make it available when failing over.
Management and Monitoring:
- Good web management console.
- Command-line interface client.
- Terraform infrastructure management. I haven't tested it yet, but I plan to.
- Integration with Datadog infrastructure monitoring service provider.
Security:
- TOTP two-factor authentication.
Support:
- Good email support. I asked some technical questions before I started using the service and the response was fast and detailed.
- Latest version of PostgreSQL database engine available (11.2). Our previous hosted database provider was stuck at version 9.6.
Features:
- Quick and easy database forking.
- Painless Google Cloud Platform VPC peering setup at no extra cost.
- Easy to switch back-and-forth between VPC and public network.
- Direct access to the secondary read-only replica on high availability plans. Other providers usually hide the replica and only make it available when failing over.
Management and Monitoring:
- Good web management console.
- Command-line interface client.
- Terraform infrastructure management. I haven't tested it yet, but I plan to.
- Integration with Datadog infrastructure monitoring service provider.
Security:
- TOTP two-factor authentication.
Support:
- Good email support. I asked some technical questions before I started using the service and the response was fast and detailed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing and Plans:
- More expensive than AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL. However, smaller providers like Aiven take their database offerings more seriously instead of just seeing them as add-ons to their other cloud services.
- Storage options are too inflexible. They start with 8 GB and then immediately jump to 80 GB.
Features:
- Backup downloading is cumbersome. You must use PostgreSQL's pgdump CLI utility, and if you want to download an older snapshot, you must first restore it to a database instance using point-in-time recovery and then create a dump using pgdump. Ideally, I should be able to go to the web console, select a snapshot and click "Download".
- Backup retention time is too short. Business plans only have 14 days, while I think that 30 days should be the minimum for production-grade plans.
Security:
- The current plaintext database administrator password can be obtained from the web console. Access to the web console itself can be protected with two-factor authentication, but I still think that the best password recovery option is the generation of a new password.
- More expensive than AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL. However, smaller providers like Aiven take their database offerings more seriously instead of just seeing them as add-ons to their other cloud services.
- Storage options are too inflexible. They start with 8 GB and then immediately jump to 80 GB.
Features:
- Backup downloading is cumbersome. You must use PostgreSQL's pgdump CLI utility, and if you want to download an older snapshot, you must first restore it to a database instance using point-in-time recovery and then create a dump using pgdump. Ideally, I should be able to go to the web console, select a snapshot and click "Download".
- Backup retention time is too short. Business plans only have 14 days, while I think that 30 days should be the minimum for production-grade plans.
Security:
- The current plaintext database administrator password can be obtained from the web console. Access to the web console itself can be protected with two-factor authentication, but I still think that the best password recovery option is the generation of a new password.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have multiple backend services running on GCP that use PostgreSQL for data storage.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It may be a bit expensive, but if you want a managed database provider that sees PostgreSQL as a core product and not an add-on, go with Aiven.
Great management, love the hosting options
What do you like best about the product?
I love the flexibility of the hosting cloud providers Aiven offers. Their integrations are the primary reason I initially looked into them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price, but you do get what you pay for so it's a toss up.
I didn't understand the "100% Availability guarantee" advertised only means you wont lose your data, and Aiven will auto-failover, but during the auto fail-over time the database will be unavailable. That caused pain early in my experience, I almost immediately upgraded to a business plan to get a live follower, but I would have preferred to understand the impact and be able to make that decision BEFORE my data being inaccessible for the rebuild time.
I didn't understand the "100% Availability guarantee" advertised only means you wont lose your data, and Aiven will auto-failover, but during the auto fail-over time the database will be unavailable. That caused pain early in my experience, I almost immediately upgraded to a business plan to get a live follower, but I would have preferred to understand the impact and be able to make that decision BEFORE my data being inaccessible for the rebuild time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Postgres database hosting/management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You get what you pay for, it may be expensive for a hobby project, but inexpensive for production considering the cost of downtime or maintenance otherwise.
I really recommend aiven
What do you like best about the product?
facility of managing the service, starting up and shutting down, creating topics and managing schemas.
What do you dislike about the product?
it is a little bit difficult to find logs and to configure ssl. but with online help from aiven it is OK.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making foundation data available for API request.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a nice service, quick to setup and manage.
Very nice features, small polishing then it is perfect
What do you like best about the product?
Step by step backups are awesome. Several times saved my life by going pack some minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Postgress user management shuould be easier, now have to do it in the command line
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy setup, stable and PITR
Aiven
What do you like best about the product?
I like the console and ease of using Aiven
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now as I have not used the console full time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Apache Kafka
Very Good Support
What do you like best about the product?
The support of Aiven helped us several times, solving a lot of our doubts and issues. They always respond very fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't experience any problem yet. Everything is just working.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replication of a Postgres DB in a big data analytics platform using Kafka as a service on Aiven.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you appreciate a good support and easy of use, Aiven will be a very good service for you.
Data Analyst
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is really user friendly, clear and clean.
It's really easy to set-up new topics on Kafka, really easy to monitory the LAG.
It's really easy to set-up new topics on Kafka, really easy to monitory the LAG.
What do you dislike about the product?
We can not create an auto export of the kafka logs to create a monitoring tool to see if there is some messages lags on our primes. we need to setup an entire new solution on aiven...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Kafka messagings
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