Ease of use. Very highly available and support for enterprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still a tight integration with zookeeper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kafka as a product confluent provides the best cloud service, regular updates, multi-region clusters, auto data balancer. It has connectors where we can integrate multiple technologies.

Better monitoring for Kafka cluster and topic statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no auto client failover on the multi-regional cluster, lack of server-level metric, the product should be cover its complete server resources monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More services, more features, more data instrumentation, use Confluent Platform is highly recommended because it is extremely valuable to have access to experts who know the most features about Apache kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a complicated technology at first sight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent Kafka Clients are the most easy to setup and with detailed documentation. You are almost certain to find the solution to the issues you would be facing while implementation through Confluent website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing of Confluent for managing Kafka is pretty high and it could be made better to include smaller organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease to use Kafka, Kafka can be bit tough to start both from infra as well as programmatically. confluent makes it easier to manage a kafka cluster. They help in deployment strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of their methods especially regarding avro conversions are still not in the framework.The framework can have much easier DSLs. Sometimes the testing part with the current framework is very hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to quickly setup pub/sub pattern through Kafka topics and have full visibility end-to-end for producers and consumers through Confluent center. Easy to scale by adding brokers and "no downtime" deployments of software updates/patches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to dislike at now. There are certain software features including those around RBAC which are currently immature, but these things are a part of the upcoming roadmap and expected to be fully implemented in 2020. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used Confluent Kafka for one of my product,

I recommended using confluent Kafka for my next project ahead of Heroku's Kafka and AWS MSK.

It won't charge per broker as AWS does.

Nice GUI, Lot of connectors that make it easy for anyone to use this feature.Using Kafka-Connect API is very painful.

Confluent makes use of AWS and GCP and Azure and makes Kafka better and easy.

I felt AWS MSK is very high in pricing and tough to set. For Interacting with MSK cluster, we also need proxy where in confluent we don't need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had found some bugs regarding consuming the messages in portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It plays major role in B2B data supply to warehouse in real time . The CDC capability along with Avro helps in supporting real time big data cdc changes into warehouse . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything in confluent. Rather they are working on optimization of CDC flow of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The wide range of data streaming solutions with great support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The community of confluent users in not very active on different technical forums, I hope people will start posting tips and solutions soon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

is a self-managed tool, this means it can be easily operated by anyone, I highly recommend the tool for users just starting out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface look and feel, also enterprise version licensing cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.