200 Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews
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It is very easy to create new clusters and enable connectivity with public cloud environments, also user management is quite simple which makes it easy to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I do not like that there is a lack of access rights for user management. We can either grant user read-only which gives him too little permissions or we can grant him developer, which gives him too much permissions in the Aiven Kafka Console. Since we are controlling everything via IaC, we cannot grant users anything more then read-only, but with that they cannot really "read" 99% of the stuff like see topics or schema content or on the other hand in INT or lower envirnomnets we cannot grant them to see passwords of users or check ACL's in the console. Granularity is missing badly :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Simplicity. Working with aiven is straightforward and doesn't include any underwater currents. The documentation is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI is not optimized for small screens (13 inch laptop), and generally, can be more "smooth". Takes some time to get used to it, and it still not very convenient.
Kafka connectors are not restarting if there were no configuration change, even when I press the button - some status icon (spinning wheel) would greatly contribute to useability.
UI for connectors can be better. (https://console.aiven.io/project/stg-eu/services/replicator/connectors)
There is no buttons to jump to configuration from there, probbaly will be much better if we have unified view for connector with "tasks" section etc.
Use case - I open multiple connectors for debugging with "ctrl +click" from the list menu so they will be separate windows.
Right now I have to copy paste link on list view and then click the button "edit configuration" separately on all of them -
suggestion - all the views to have URIs which could be accessed directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Terraform provider is nice for automatize maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Logs exports depends on other service and the default screen to see the logs is not good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Working out of the box, nice UI to manage the app, straightforward integration with our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes we struggle debugging or investigating the issues we encounter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
How easy it was to look up topics (using search), view the messages that are on a particular topic and then decode the b64 and read the contents. We needed to look up a mongo change stream and found what we were looking for in this message 💪 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
One thing that would have been good was to see what kind of volume a particular topic has. For instance, we wanted to know just how many messages were on a mongo change stream in case we needed to do some caching on the consumer end to be more efficient querying the DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Setting up was extremely easy.
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It sits right in the middle between hosting everything on your own on one hand and booking confluent cloud on the other hand. We do not need to take care of the machines, zookeeper, ... and still get Kafka up and running wiht just "terraform apply"! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have a small integration setup and would like to have a small (as in cheap) one machine setup to just play with it. We plan on using review Apps in GitLab and spinning up a 200 $ / month setup everytime will soon get pricy ;-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Communication was super seamless. Every time we need support Aiven team is just a message away. For example, in the PoC phase, we were looking for some on-demand thing to help us with the journey, and the team was always there to support us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Probably documentation around complex problems would be interesting. For example, we want to connect two clouds with Aiven, and yes, there were some architecture diagrams provided, but I think when the use case is not so straightforward and Aiven has already solved it with previous clients, it's better to have detailed solution descriptions on the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
