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What is Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Instaclustr’s Hosted Managed Service for Apache Kafka® is the best way to run Kafka in the cloud, providing you with a production ready and fully supported Apache Kafka cluster in minutes. Instaclustr Apache Kafka® is SOC 2 and PCI certified and hosted on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem. We support running in your cloud provider account or ours. We customize and optimize the configuration of your cluster so you can focus on your applications. Features ◆ 100% open source Kafka and Kafka Connect ◆ Bundled and fully supported Kafka Connect Connectors for AWS S3, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. ◆ Bring Your Own (BYO) connectors are also supported with Kafka Connect ◆ Built in configuration backups ◆ Data replication (multi-clusters/regions) with Mirror Maker 2. ◆ Managed platform support provisioning via Console or dedicated API ◆ Fully supported Terraform Provider ◆ Built in monitoring API with support for responses in Prometheus format. ◆ 100% open source, Kafka Schema Registry and Kafka REST proxy add-on are available. ◆ Private network clusters ◆ Custom VPC options ◆ EBS encryption of data at rest ◆ Kafka user management UI and API ◆ Up to 99.999% SLA ◆ 24x7 expert support, with support response times from 10 minutes. ◆ Our support teams conduct activities that include migrations, upgrades, patching, and Kafka maintenance ◆ Support includes core software bug fix Security and Compliance ◆ PCI-DSS ◆ SOC 2 Certified ◆ Contact us about HIPAA compliant options for health data. Other Services ◆ Training, workshops, consulting, and engineering services are available for Apache Kafka. ◆ Support contracts are also available for self-managed clusters. Sign up for a free trial (no credit card required) and spin up a Kafka cluster in less than 5 minutes.

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Build your application on the fastest and most scalable distributed streaming platform with Instaclustr's Managed Kafka. Apache Kafka is the leading streaming and queuing technology for large-scale, always-on applications. Instaclustr's Managed Service for Apache Kafka is the best way to run Kafka in the cloud, providing you a production ready and fully supported Apache Kafka cluster in minutes.


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Instaclustr is a leading provider of fully managed open-source data infrastructure services, specializing in the deployment and management of technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Apache Zookeeper, Redis, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, and more. The company aims to enable organizations to scale their mission-critical applications by offering robust, secure, and reliable data platforms. By delivering expert support and automated management, Instaclustr helps businesses focus on innovation and growth while ensuring their data systems remain efficient and resilient. Their services are designed to help clients reduce the complexity and operational burden associated with managing open-source data technologies.


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Nick M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"All the best bits of open source software without any of the bad bits"
Kafka is an awesome piece of technology that we can use in production, at scale, with confidence because Instaclustr has taken the hard work of man...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Excellent Kafka service provider"
They are very quick to respond to issues and technical requests that we need performed on our Kafka clusters. They do a great job with our clusters...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Knowledge in Kafka management with the greatest possible security"
Agility in customer service to solve customer problems

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What do you like best about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Kafka is an awesome piece of technology that we can use in production, at scale, with confidence because Instaclustr has taken the hard work of managing Kafka out of our hands. Things will always go wrong, but I have complete trust in Instaclustr to fix problems with our Kafka cluster before they hurt us, I have this trust, because they have saved us in the past and I know they will keep doing so into the future. Easily one of the best infrastructure decisions we've made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

We've had a couple of issues hooking up Dynatrace (our monitoring tool). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our entire platform is message-driven, we planned it this way and have built it from the ground up with Kafka as the backbone of our message delivery. It is a vital cog in our platform and we couldn't be happier with the result so far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

They are very quick to respond to issues and technical requests that we need performed on our Kafka clusters. They do a great job with our clusters as we have not had serious issues with it that wasn't our own doing.

We also heavily poll their metrics API for visibility on our end and it's all worked great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

None really - there's a small security risk in that we need to hand over IAM keys so they can perform things in our AWS account but that's something we can't work around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not spending engineering time to fix kafka issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Apache Kafka is very well suited where the deployment entails getting a very large number of small messages at extremely high rates—4 million-plus messages a secon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

I have find anything for dislike yes sometimes due to my internet issue I face little problem while accessing kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kafka is considered to be in the class of applications known as message-oriented middleware

This are some of the benefits

Decouples producer applications from consumers, allowing each to operate at its own pace and without the awareness of the other.

An enabler for event-driven applications. These are applications that generate and/or react to domain-specific events. This is in contrast to the more traditional request-response style messaging patterns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Agility in customer service to solve customer problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Must to have a training area for Kafka and Cassandra Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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To create an area to have a playground only to test your plataform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backup of Cassandra in real time. We can recoved in any time our database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

The team supporting the service has a high level of expertise. Deep technical questions are answered without hassle, and communication is straightforward with them. There is a good level of trust to the Instaclustr team from the team I manage (technical consultants, architects). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Availability of the team is not always good - hard to work between CET and AEST timezones. Sense of urgency is sometimes lacking as they are not exposed to the end users / client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Production environment is managed by Instaclustr. Despite the extra cost associated with this, reliability is improved by having a dedicated specialist team and customer confidence is improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Managed Queue with user friendly UIs to browse through the queues and know the status, congestion or issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Not everything related to Kafka is provided out of the box from instaclustr. The documentations between Kafka and Instaclustr can be confusing since features do not sync 100%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Instaclustr Managed Kafka:

If your business logic is simple straightforward like payment integrations, Instaclustr is an easy choice. In addition, your company should benefit a lot from the quick resolution of any events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a web application with features like ticketing and payments, events and notifications. Instaclustr helps us deliver those events in a reliable way mostly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dedicated zookeeper cluster and managed monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Nothing actually it's perfect to me from all perspectives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's easy to deploy without any hassle at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Distributed event based systems integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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easy to create and scale. easy to create and scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

the pricing model has to include sandbox free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

easy ux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Instant response on the tickets. they give support to the modules even though they do no cover Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Not everything related to Kafka is covered by support for the on-premise support of Kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

Event streaming on distributed fault-tolerant platform. High speed performance service issue was resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hassle free implementation on any cloud provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Instaclustr Managed Kafka?

Nothing so far. Everything works as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Instaclustr Managed Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

The idea is to let us focus on our business with minimal commitment to manage this infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.