Confluent made our event processing butter smooth. Millions of events fired and all got processed without breaking any sweat. Installation, configuration & integrations with relational database was cherry on top. As an administrator and developer, the documentation was so easy and relatable that we actually spend less time than we anticipated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of third party learning resource and community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent is fully managed event streaming flatform. Maintainance of Kafka clusters, partitions, connectors is very tideous task. Confluent makes it very easy in overall maintainance and deployment of the real time analytics platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The overall learning curve of the platform is very high. As a individual I had to know about basics of lot of topics Kafka, connectors, security. Their documentation is not upto the mark especially on deployment and is not beginner friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Confluent UI/Control Center: We can easily access all confluent platform components from here. This is very useful when it comes to monitor streaming data.

2. Schema Registry: We can easily check the schemas associated with different topics even we can check the previous versions also. This is possible through rest call also but confluent put everything together to make developers or administrators life easier.

3. KSQLDB/KSQL: KSQLDB is also a confluent offering, we are using it to modify streaming data or applying filters.

4. Connectors: Confluent comes with connectors idea that helps developers to reduce time and efforts to write kafka stream applications from scratch. We can just use production ready source or sink connectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent documentation needs improvement. Sometimes it is very difficult to find out how to meet specific use case. They shpuld create some videos or detailed documents. Other than that everything is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The seamless and fast integration, availability of automation to a granular level with the easy implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it becomes complex to understand however if the frequency of use is maintained, one can achieve any type of mastery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Let's start with the good stuff - their cluster management is top-notch! I was impressed by how smooth and efficient it was to manage data streams and workflows. The user interface is intuitive, making it a breeze to set up and navigate through everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

However, I must admit that I had some struggles with their connectors. It wasn't as straightforward as I had hoped, and I encountered a few hiccups along the way. I wish the process was a bit more streamlined and easier to grasp.

Despite the connector challenges, the overall experience with Confluent has been positive. They truly excel in cluster management, and their customer support was quick to help me whenever I hit a roadblock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent provides a fully managed Kafka Service, allowing us as developers to focus on building applications rather than managing the underlying infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When using a fully managed Kafka service, you create a dependency on the provider with some limitations and, of course, a cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most valuable part of using Confluent is that it cares about the developer experience. The tools they provide are easy to use, so developers can focus on delivering business value and not worry about managing Kafka and its related components. Uptime with Confluent Cloud is top-rate; their support is knowledgable and helpful, and they are willing to jump on Zoom calls to help troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some configuration settings for Kafka Connect are not exposed on all connectors, and others have limits you cannot override. Lack of IDP-initiated SSO is frustrating, but there are workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best part about confluent is that it's very easy get started with setting up new topics from the confluent dashboard itself and manage allowed producers and consumers. Also it makes it very easy to set up and interact via pipelines on confluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not yet real time, there have been a lot of instances where we failed to interpret the exact behaviour just because it'd take considerable amount of time to see updates on message consumptions, consumer lag etc. Also, being the company that confluent is, a better UX is expected from the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are able to mobile projects literal in minutes and deploy the first app at a Client to run a poc in under 1 hr. The support is excellent, they help not only with the infra but also answer tech questions on Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Features usually lag a bit when you use private networks, so this creates some problems at clients getting confused why they cannot use a feature they see in the marketing material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Confluent's seamless scalability and robust integration with Apache kafka streamline real time data processing, offering an intuitive interface and comprehensive monitoring tools that significantly enhanced event driven architecture management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While confluent offers powerful data streaming capabilities, its complexity can be daunting for new userss, and the cost may be prohibitive for smallwr business or startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.