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Apache Kafka made simple

Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of getting your Apache Kafka® clusters up and running. Everything is already set up for you. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. You can deploy Kafka and everything else you need in under 10 minutes. We offer rock solid, reliable, open source data infra – with no hidden costs.

Apache Kafka that works for you

Aiven’s fully managed data solutions take the pain out of getting Apache Kafka® up and running, and give you the tools you love to work the way you choose. Just select the services and tools you need, pick a cloud provider and your storage needs, and you’re good to go. Use our intuitive Console, or set up infrastructure as code using Terraform, Kubernetes or CLI. Whichever route you take, you'll get Kafka deployed with everything else you need in under 10 minutes.

How to publish messages through Kafka to Grafana Loki

Back in November 2021, Grafana Labs released version 2.4 of Grafana Loki. One of the new features it included was a Promtail Kafka Consumer that can easily ingest messages out of Kafka and into Loki for storing, querying, and visualization. Kafka has always been an important technology for distributed streaming data architectures, so I wanted to share a working example of how to use it to help you get started.

Support Database Technology Migration with Apache Kafka and Apache Kafka Connect

Aiven for Apache Kafka® Migrating from one database technology (such as PostgreSQL®) to another (such as MySQL) using batch has a variety of problems. Find out how to use Apache Kafka® to perform streaming updates, and keep the target continually in sync with the source.