Confluent

What do you like best?

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.

What do you dislike?

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.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Confluent is the one for the dedicated vendor, as we know that no one has an as far vision on kafka except Confluent.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Consumer off-set management with confluent replicator we can sync offset over the cluster, also with auto data balancer partitions reassignment process is much easier.

Kubernetes support.