200 Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews
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You have got everything on the dashboard. I like especially that you can create topics and view Kafka logs and turn off the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I could not find any issue so far. Everything looks awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Dealing with the complexity of installing and running the Kafka is taken away from you.
- It had sensible configuration out-of-the-box so I didn't have to deal with the myriad of Kafka settings.
- Support for log compacted topics.
- Integration with other third party services.
- I also liked having a 30-day trial period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- The server certificate is not signed by a public CA, so additional configuration is needed for clients to add a truststore. My guess is that each server cert is dynamically generated for each new user doing the trial, so this is a minor issue. But I wonder if a wildcard cert signed by a public CA would still give the security you want, and give the convenience of not worrying about a truststore.
- Aiven requires clients use a client certificate. This is reasonable, but adds friction for trial users who need to deal with creating a keystore for any clients they want to use. If there were documentation that showed the explicit steps to create the keystore (and trustore, from the previous point), that would be very helpful. You could go even further and pre-create the keystore and trustore, along with instructions for how to configure clients to use them, such as a Java client, of the Kafka Tool GUI (http://www.kafkatool.com/). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
facility of managing the service, starting up and shutting down, creating topics and managing schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
it is a little bit difficult to find logs and to configure ssl. but with online help from aiven it is OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The transparent pricing
Back office interface
Terraform provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cannot choose disk size precisely
No centralized log (except in an Aiven hosted ES at the moment) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The best thing about our Kafka setup on Aiven is they supply us with a hassle free, managed, extremely reliable service. No need for any Ops on our side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Could have a better topics/schema registry UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like how quickly we can set up and tear down a Kafka cluster. It made the trial painless. Support was on point and I'm glad we can peer it to our AWS VPC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing, so far, we are having a great experience with Aiven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like aiven provide easy and high uptime kafka, though havent tried yet for high performance / price comparison Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
can't modify how I can connect (whitelist IP, another security option)
not all features in console software implemented (monitor some messages, performance test, etc) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
