Aiven for Apache Kafka
About Aiven for Apache Kafka
Aiven for Apache Kafka Pricing
Aiven services are charged by the hour and billed monthly.
Starting price:
$200.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Aiven for Apache Kafka
1 - 5 of 69 Reviews
Filippo
Verified reviewer
Utilities, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2017
It has been a game changer in our business
It saved us from the hassle to manage Kafka cluster ourselves, with a very fast response customer support
PROSIt provides a working out of the box Kafka with REST API, Schema Registry, and Kafka Connect. It also makes available a very powerful REST API and command line tool to manage the services. Topics ACL and per user certificates are a very good addition for any non-trivial use case.
CONSSome available settings are not very well documented. Also using Kafka is not the most trivial things in the hearth. Would be good to have more detailed monitoring maybe coupled with InfluxDb that is already available in Aiven
Vendor Response
Thank you Filippo for your comments. We¿re glad to hear you have enjoyed using Aiven! Aiven provides detailed gathering of Kafka telemetry and subsequent visualization through built-in dashboards using Aiven PostgreSQL(TimescaleDB) and Aiven Grafana. Here's some links you might find useful: Aiven Service Integrations https://help.aiven.io/services/integrations/getting-started-with-service-integrations Aiven Kafka - Telemetry and Dashboards https://aiven.io/blog/gain-visibility-with-kafka-dashboards/ DataDog integration https://aiven.io/blog/datadog-meets-aiven/ Prometheus integration https://aiven.io/blog/prometheus-can-now-be-integrated-with-aiven/ Thanks again!
Replied February 2019
Russell
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2019
Our experiences deploying Kafka with Aiven
We are a very new customer but our experience has been good so far. They have taken a lot of headaches out of setting up a Kafka cluster. I am hopeful that this experience will carry over to production as we begin to deliver new projects using Kafka.
PROSWe liked that Aiven offered us a self service portal and is easy to integrate with our existing software stack. We have a number of environments in development requiring Kafka and they are able to offer us the level of flexibility we need. We are using Terraform in AWS so being able to provision everything using their Terraform provider is also beneficial to us. Setting up a cluster to the point where we are able to monitor it with our existing Prometheus is very easy to do thanks to their external integrations.
CONSThe documentation is lacking in some parts. Trying to set up logging to am external Elasticsearch cluster is difficult if you have your cluster secured with SSL. The terraform documentation is also lacking documentation and expects you to figure it out yourself from reading JSON.
Reason for choosing Aiven for Apache Kafka
For the reasons mentioned above, the main ones being flexibility with the self service offering.
Neeraj
Automotive, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2018
Good but not excellent
1. Kafka easy to maintain and easy to use, easy to scale up
PROS1. easy UI and scalability. easy to use kafka features easy and approachable team and easy to see logs.
CONS1. documentation is not proper. no steps mentioned anywhere for connectivity of aiven with other cloud or on premise clusters. 2. no troubleshooting steps available 3. very tough to use if face errors, as there is no way to go out as documents are not avilable in detail.
Vendor Response
Hi Neeraj, We appreciate your feedback! Just wanted to let you know that a limited amount (typically 1-2 days worth) of Aiven service logs are provided in the ¿Logs¿ tab for your service in the Aiven console. If you wish logs from a longer duration, you can use Logs Integration offered by Aiven. More information about this can be found at: https://help.aiven.io/elasticsearch/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-log-integration Thanks again!
Replied February 2019
Manjunath
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed December 2019
Aiven Kafka Monitoring
Overall its good to quickly implement kafka for a fast paced environments and migrations.
PROSEasy to use, Configurable and with a built in setup of monitoring.
CONSSome of the parameters like consumer lag are not added in the monitoring graphs.
Reason for choosing Aiven for Apache Kafka
Honestly it's my managers call. They did not have any conclusions why we choose this.
Reasons for switching to Aiven for Apache Kafka
Scalability.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
Up and ready in less than 5 minutes!
Perfect, I'm able to maintain 5 Kafka Clusters, everywhere, uptodate, without spending lot of time. The time to market is perfect.
PROSAiven is prod-ready in 5 minutes... Grab an account, pop your instances, and that's all! Integrated with Datadog, Hot patching, All-in-one (schema registry, kconnect, ...).
CONSKafka clusters are quite expensive, but still cheaper than running kafka by yourself
Reason for choosing Aiven for Apache Kafka
Aiven is a multi product platform, so I can run PGSQL, ES and Redis using the same platform
