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Aiven for Apache Kafka Overview

What is Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a fully managed distributed event streaming service, that can be deployed in the cloud of your choice. Aiven for Apache Kafka is ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and data pipelines, streaming analytics, and any use case that requires moving huge amounts of real-time data between applications and systems. With Aiven for Apache Kafka you can set up fully managed Kafka clusters in less than 10 minutes — using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. You can easily connect it to your existing tech stack with a fully managed Apache Kafka Connect service with over 30+ connectors. Monitoring your clusters with logs and metrics is also available out of the box via multiple service integrations. Get access to a complete open source ecosystem of streaming technologies and tools around Apache Kafka to fully manage, and operate a real time data infrastructure at scale using: Aiven for Apache Kafka: the core event streaming framework allowing you to transport data within your organization Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect: a fully managed, fully open source, distributed service enabling you to integrate your existing data sources and sinks seamlessly with Aiven for Apache Kafka. Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2: a fully managed, fully open source distributed data replication service for cluster to cluster data replication, disaster recovery and geo proximity across multiple regions. Karapace®: a fully open source Kafka Schema Registry that applications can access to serialize and deserialize messages with popular formats such as AVRO, Protobuf and JSON. Aiven for Apache Flink®: a fully managed, fully open source streaming SQL engine for stateful stream processing over your data streams. Klaw: an open source data governance tool that helps enterprises exercise Apache Kafka® topic and schema governance. Aiven is ISO / IEC 27001: 2013, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Check our pricing and try our free 30-day trial at https://aiven.io/kafka.

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Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Snap it into your existing workflows with the click of a button, automate away the mundane tasks, and focus on building your core apps.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

NO VENDOR LOCK-IN
100% Open Source, you can take your cluster anywhere you want. Launch new clusters AND move clusters between different cloud providers with a few clicks.

BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD (BYOC)
For strict control requirements, you have the option to set up Aiven services within your own Cloud Provider account. The services can be managed through the Aiven console, and the user experience remains the same as with the regular Aiven service model.

LATEST KAFKA VERSION AND FEATURES
You’ll always get access to the latest Kafka version within a few weeks of release. We offer the most features of any solution on the market, so you have a lot of options with your deployment.

WORKFLOW AND COMPLIANCE
You can deploy our Kafka solution via our web console, API, CLI and Terraform. We’re compliant with all major governance standards, which makes things easier if your company has strict requirements.


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Aiven
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2016
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Helsinki, Southern Finland
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We help organizations fuel the continuous innovation needed to create awesome, data-intensive applications by using the leading open source technologies.


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What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The overview tab is very useful to find important information quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It takes too many steps to look at the event messages and have to go through the steps again to look at it after navigating away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to look at the Kafka event stream to see if it is online and events are coming through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The way managing the environement is easy, dependancies management is really easy, topics, schema, politics is really cool too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I dont like that the UI is not able to read comrpessed data, the manual message posting is not so good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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we needed a broker for application integreation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Functionality and setting in aiven that need to improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Need to get more documentation on how to setup since our infra team with lack of knowledge in aiven is difficult to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

To capture the changes in data production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I like that it is very easy to set up and start using it with other services, e.g. PostgreSQL. Setup data pipeline from PostgreSQL through kafka-connect into bigquery is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would like to have more metrics, especially in aiven UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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We need to stream data from DB into data lake storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Being able to easily scale and move between clouds. Support for SSL based authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

When using azure private endpoint custom load balancer being flaky. Missing schema registry features. Portal is annoying for checking messages and topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moving data between services. Messaging. Kafka is our unified message bus, so ease of internal integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Aiven provides a good console that accommodates all the kaha features at one place. Easy to navigate to different Kafka features and properties. Well managed and maintained. Support team is easily reachable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I think a more easy access to the Aiven APIs for integrating it in the system would be helpful. A little more description of the APIs and the response fields would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides an excellent console to view and manage all the Kafka features and properties at a single place. Easy to navigate and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Fire and forget service that is easy to maintain, upgrade and keep serving. Terraform integration is golden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Some values are hard to maintain and visualize in portal. Some custom modules have made some hicups in past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ingestion on iot events from devices around the world for processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Easy to manage and get started with. Can integrate different things along with kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Need to understand what is Kafka to use it in the better way, also it is expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

You don't need to provision your own kafka, Aiven saves your time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fully managed solutions with upgrades that just work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Price is high and may be prohibitive for some. Smaller instances or a pay-per-throughput/storage model may help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real-time analytics, reliable processing. Kafka helps us ingest and analyze data without dataloss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The setup was very easy and quick. It even provide integration snippets that re very helpfull and the support team is one of the quickest to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The pricing can be more competitive and the loging can be improved. The RBAC and dashboard stability has to be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Maintaining atraditional Kafka vm or container is a mess. The monitoring and downtime handling is difficult. It solves this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.