--- title: Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews meta\_title: 'Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 248 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Aiven for Apache Kafka works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 248 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Big Data url: https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data --- # Aiven for Apache Kafka Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Aiven for Apache Kafka but has limited features. Are you part of the Aiven for Apache Kafka team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. 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Fully managed kafka solution which is simple to use across multiple cloud platform with full set of kafka capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Struggle with the connectivity and integration with the existing onprem implementations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Single solution supports multiple cloud platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/aiven-for-apache-kafka-review-9075352/official_response/edit) Hello, Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka. It's great to hear you're enjoying the simplicity of using Aiven for Apache kafka across different cloud platforms. Can you elaborate on the challenges you are facing when connecting/integrating with existing on-prem implementations? We would like to understand the challenges you are facing and see how these can be resolved. You can always reach out to our support team here for additional guidance: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/project-support-center#support Best Markos [See how Aiven for Apache Kafka improved](https://docs.aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/project-support-center#support) Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Sports](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Sports") US Verified User in Sports Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/22/2024 "A good experience with apache kafka" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? The simplicity to create an instance with terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? The support ticket that is frustating, no live chat in case of outage, However we have a slack connection with aiven so, it's not a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? it makes me able to communicates / expose my data to my consumers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/aiven-for-apache-kafka-review-9320621/official_response/edit) Hello! Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka. Great to hear you leverage the simplicity of Aiven's tooling like Terraform to create new instances. I will share your feedback regarding live chat support with our team, however for more direct communication, you use Slack as you pointed correctly. Thanks again for your trust in Aiven! Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/5/2023 "Easy to use and easier to configure" 4/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Ease to configure the roles and access controls. Very easy to create topic and gives you a hollistic view of configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Some spaces takes a lot of time to load, for example user profiles takes a lot of time to load. Sometimes, when you are trying to see the members for projects, it takes a lot more time to render list of 50 users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Ease of use of configuration in one place and also easier to monitor the health of nodes is quite useful for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/aiven-for-apache-kafka-review-8966172/official_response/edit) Hello! Thanks for submitting your review. It's great to hear you are enjoying the ease of configuration and use of ACLs in Aiven for Apache Kafka. Thank you for bringing to our attention the longer loading times for user profiles. We will look into this further. You can also contact our support team directly in the Aiven console. For more information, see here: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/project-support-center Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka Markos Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/15/2024 "Discovering Managed Kafka" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Ease of management. Decrease in amount of manual effort required to manage Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Lack of control and access to Kafka brokers and ability to manually change the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Manual effort to manage Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Broadcast Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Broadcast Media") AB Verified User in Broadcast Media Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/15/2023 "Kafka working as espected" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Simple to deploy. Simple to scale. Integrates well to our monitoring services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Lack of backup/restore possibilities. Would like an option to at least have transaction logs (backup/restore option) for specific topics that requires retention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? We have chosen Kafka to be the preffered event stream processing platform. It is essential for the performance of our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/aiven-for-apache-kafka-review-8876715/official_response/edit) Thank you for your review! Tiered Storage in Aiven for Apache Kafka is currently in Limited Availability (more information here: https://ideas.aiven.io/discovery/roadmap/feature/127968) and will be coming to Early availability soon. This could be an option for larger retention times in your clusters. Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka. [See how Aiven for Apache Kafka improved](https://ideas.aiven.io/) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/10/2023 "Easy and ready to use production grade Kafka cluster." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? For my use case, it's the dashboard, it helps me to debug issues easier when setting up a new project which uses Kafka, and also helps me to investigate issues like consumer lags, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? There is nothing to dislike, but I wish I had more advanced debugging tools like filtering messages in a topic. features like `trubka` cli provides, I know it might not be relevant in large scale, but at least having tools to make life easier for these kind of investiagtions is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? As I said earlier, I mostly use the dashboard features to investigate issues, like initial consumer setup, consumer lags, etc. Being able to access these data improves our daily life as developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2023 "Kafka provider must try!" 4/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Example of client source code in various languages, friendly UI, easy explorer features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? It is hard to connect from the local environment and requires a cert file that's hard to implement in the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Use Aiven helps me not to take effort in setup, monitor, configuration things like infra, environment, resources and permission management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/aiven-for-apache-kafka-review-8846118/official_response/edit) Hello! Thanks for your review! Grreat to hear that Aiven for Apache Kafka minimizes your efforts in setup, monitoring, and permission management for your data streaming workloads. We appreciate your input and valuable feedback. If you have additional feedback for the Aiven product team, you can directly influence our development roadmap by submitting your ideas here: https://ideas.aiven.io/ Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka! Best Markos [See how Aiven for Apache Kafka improved](https://ideas.aiven.io/) Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/21/2023 "All in one Kafka management" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Aiven for Apache Kafka allows us to manage our Kafka instance very well. We have smooth topic creation with most of the customisations. Also it provides a UI to produce messages, view the messages, partitions, consumer lag in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Improvements can be showing timestamp in the header of each message since that data is already there in Kafka. Navigation to topics, info, messages can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Event driven approach is being solved by Aiven and we are able to process events without any hindrance to the data flow. Any data transfer isn't lost because we are abke to reprocess the error events easily through Aiven Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Kevin X.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kevin X.") KX Kevin X. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/18/2023 "Highly reliable, configurable, and overall a greal experience!" 5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Everything about Aiven has been great to power our company's analytics and has truly been a set-it-and-forget-it piece of our infrastructure. Aiven has been extremely responsive with their support and has been great at working with us to fit to our custom needs. We have had no notable outages in the last 3 years of our partnership together. It is flexibile with the cloud providers allowed and is very cost effective. Would recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? I think the thing that could use the most love would be the initial learning curve on how to set custom specifications. At the beginning we had to use settings that weren't well documented to have everything play smoothly, but the support quickly sorted that out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? It powers our data warehouse and serves as the point where all data flows through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") UL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/17/2023 "Hastle-free Kafka management" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka? The most helpful features are: - RESTful API integration for managing outside of the console - Ease of security credentials setup - High availability - Quick provisioning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Downsides, though not critical: - The pricing structure can be a bit confusing to navigate, which may lead to unexpected costs - The documentation for the service could be more comprehensive, which can make it harder for beginners to get started Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you? Communication between microservices in the form of messages and construction of ETL pipelines. Reliable place to send events to, so they don't get lost even if the producer or consumers are temporarily offline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Aiven for Apache Kafka? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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