200 Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews
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That fact that everything is managed by professionals focusing on delivering a great service. With clear pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing, all is good, I believe. Great service and great documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nice UI, nice terraform module, k8s operator, variety of cloud providers, ability to scale both vertically and horizontally. I like the way your documentation is structured and the fact that it is really concise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are pros and cons of each point that I mention. 1. As for scalability: I would highly appreciate having a possibility to scale automatically somehow. It would be precious to be able to scale based on some metrics and Kafka usage and to set minimun and maximum number of nodes. Of course, Kafka scalability may be not that straight-forward due to the fact that scaling it would surely take some amount of time and may take a lot of time if the data volume is really high; but at least having an option to scale it up and down automatically would be cool and would imply reliability and assurance in the service. 2. As for documentation: documentation is concise but sometimes I would like to have a link to dive deeper into details on how that or another thing works. And just noticed that for example on this page: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/concepts.html, the underlined topics and the UI itself looks a bit poorer than the rest of your UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Straightforward setup, management and configuration. We also tried trial version for evaluation of our needs and the whole configuration took only few minutes, super easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In world where everything is in code including also whole infrastructure, I found only some community developed Terraform, which was also hard to set up and use for Aiven Kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI was very simple and friendly. Maintaining it using Terraform code was a great experience. I liked the feature of Aiven S3 connector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Initially the UI was a bit complex but then I got it and it made my life easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Really intuitive dashboard gives access to all the necessary features Kafka has to provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's no way to produce test messages to test consumers. Would be of great help if it could be build into the dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I could leverage some powerful workflow with the help the aiven-operator !
Integration of Prometheus monitoring is very cool as well.
And last but not the least, nice terraform provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some documentation has been a little bit outdated, but the aiven team handle some of my pull requests to adjust the documentation/provided samples provided very quickly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
persoanlly I like the partition information about size, offset etc.
But the general User experience was good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I experienced several network disconnection from the cluster during the cluster upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The interface is very intuitive, easy to learn, I think that it took less than 10 minutes to find my Kafka messages. Create a schema is easy to, I strongly recommend this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I created a free account by mistake with my professional e-mail, I needed to talk to the support team to have my account deleted to be possible to access my account that was previously created by my company, which uses a different authentication method (Okta). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Not having to take care of complicated infra by ourselves
- Aiven console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- It would be nice to be able to decode protobuf messages straight from Aiven console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
