it's a really good service to use. fully compatible with terraform and we also have vpc peering for internal connection between services and kafka. they also provide kafka connector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we use apache kafka for 3 years without downtime. but i think logs is not good enough to trouble shoot and they can provide better ui fo user to have a better logs Visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Solution works right out of the box. Easy to setup and scale a cluster.

2. Better integrations for metrics and logs

3. Good technical and sales support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Ability to manage users with more granular access abstractions

2. Ability to manage SSH client7server certificates to integrate with other systems

3. KafkaConnect monitoring and connector management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managed solution, ease of use, delegated access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not much. most usage is by dev team which are happy. so happy in fact we are considering as the devops team to replace our log shipping tool to Aiven kafka as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I work with the aiven dashboard a lot to check the running status of our platform. I do like the UI a lot, very intuitive and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have a lot of topics, everytime there's something wrong and I feel its related to a topic been blocked for some reason. Its not easy to find that topic in Avien. Because it loads lags only if I click into the topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the most important features Aiven compares to other competitors:

- Latest technology trend

- Instantly customer support and guidance

- Various services to offer

- Fair pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Some of the document is outdated or instruction unclear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managed solution, ease of use, delegated access.

Good support. We used Kafka as a managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing. Engineers were happy, business objective were delivered. Now and then, you would need to report on SOC2 compliance, but this is expected for a PaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka is its remarkable ease of use and efficient management interface. Setting up and configuring Kafka clusters is a breeze, and the platform's user-friendly design simplifies complex processes, allowing me to focus on data processing rather than grappling with technical complexities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One aspect that I find somewhat challenging with Aiven for Apache Kafka is the pricing structure. While the service does offer great value, it could benefit from more transparent pricing tiers and clearer guidelines on how costs can scale as data demands increase. This would help users like me better anticipate and manage expenses as our data processing requirements grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiven for Apache Kafka helps our organization, and software team to forget about time-costly maintenance. Each upgrade to the LTS is effortless. Additionally, with the DataDog integration, our organization can collect all the necessary metrics and statistics that help us with maintaining our business in a healthy state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Missing MongoDB support,

- Missing long-term contract option (With potential saving plans),

- Missing plan between migration from Startup-2 to Business-4 (It's costly migration). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple and intuitive for what I need to do about 99% of the time. It doesn't take a tutorial to do the basics and necessary things required. Compared to confluent this was much easier to jump into and do what I need to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works well for simple things, but for more complex queries it does not. Searching for existing messages and being able to copy the message as a raw json would be a great addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

grafana, prometeus and loki topics management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

metrics that is use to measure some traffic and consumer lag Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.