Aiven for OpenSearch Pros and Cons

One of the best things about Aiven for OpenSearch is how effortless it makes the setup and management of clusters. Compared to other services like AWS OpenSearch, Aiven stands out with its straightforward interface and quick deployment. It takes care of the backend work, like scaling and backups, so you can focus on using OpenSearch rather than managing it. The transparent pricing is a big plus, too—no hidden costs or surprises, which makes budgeting easier. Plus, the support team is responsive and genuinely helpful, which is reassuring when handling complex data needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside with Aiven for OpenSearch is that it can feel a bit limiting in customization compared to AWS, especially for those who prefer fine-tuning every aspect of their cluster setup. While Aiven’s simplicity is a strength, it may lack some of the advanced configuration options that power users or those with very specific requirements might need. Additionally, Aiven’s pricing, though transparent, can still be on the higher side for small projects or startups when compared to some alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup management is super easy and smooth. you don't have to get stressed about their updates and patches of their management infrastructure is super amazing. Aiven offers high availability with multi-region deployments and Aiven can easily integrate with other aiven services which is good and also it provide amazing security to their platform which will ensure your security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price will be more transparent the customization options are limited and community support is is lesser than the other platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to use and makes managing kafka smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lags sometimes when the internet is slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiven is a fantastic platform for getting up and running as quickly as possible. The cost is very competitive and flexible. The number of database options covers nearly all of our development and POC use cases. It is very easy to provision and to tear down and integrating with our existing development tooling is very simple, and we do not have to worry about usage, egress overages while prototyping and rapidly proving out MVP value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some parts are not as customizable and easy to use as I would like, such as managing static IP addresses, customizing environment variables or config settings, and some features that are available in the tool do not seem to be available in Aiven, for example, with Clickhouse, not all of the secondary storage and remote table engines were compatible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the standout features of Aiven is its remarkable ease of integration. The intuitive user interface makes it a breeze to set up and manage these integrations.

Availability is another area where Aiven shines brightly. The robust infrastructure and built-in redundancy mechanisms provide peace of mind, knowing that my data is secure and my applications are always up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Depending on your usage patterns and the specific services you require, Aiven's pricing structure may be a bit on the higher side compared to some competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI is easy to use compared to other services, it is easy to use Aiven to create a quick proof of concept for a product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that pricing is a bit high, compared to other offerings available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it's super easy to access info for connecting to the database from the CLI, through code or a GUI. The service itself is easy to automate through Terraform or the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The logs are not very useful since you can't easily search or filter. it would be nice to be able to search/filter through your different services. The metrics overview is just a large list of charts and does not let you choose what you want to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphical interface is really easy to use.

The "getting started" documentations is straigthforward and contains example for a lot of different languages which is cool because I use the solution from multiple languages.

The cluster is quick to bootsrap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The monitoring capabilities is limited to Influxdb/Grafana, and there is no default grafana dashboard so we have to build our own.

There is a way to get a Prometheus endpoint but as we don't have Prometheus it's not a solution for us.

Maybe a way to open the JMX port to enable more external integration will be a good addons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clear interface and easy to find i need in daily work. Helps my work a lot when everyting is in single place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Log search would be nice enhancement with time window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the way Aiven shows the topics and its offsets, consumer groups, and consumer groups offsets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to be able to search into the topics by Aiven I believe it would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.