Managed Apache Kafka® scale real-time
data streaming with confidence
Managed Apache Kafka® scale real-time data streaming with confidence
Struggling with the complexities of managing Apache Kafka? NetApp Instaclustr delivers fully managed Kafka clusters tailored to meet your business needs.
Simplify and scale your Kafka experience
Eliminate the burden of self-managed Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka enables robust, scalable stream processing, and event-driven architectures for enterprise companies and startups alike.
Focus on building your applications knowing that Instaclustr Managed Kafka comes optimized for your needs.
Features
Instaclustr for Kafka
Managing Kafka in-house
Performance optimization
Optimized scaling and configuration
Requires advanced in-house expertise
Scalability
Pre-built infrastructure and configurations based on business needs
Requires significant planning, manual configuration and hardware/resource investment
Stress-free resilience
Built-in redundancy, automatic failover, and high availability
Custom setup for redundancy and manual intervention during failover
Upgrades and maintenance
Managed upgrades, patches, and maintenance, ensuring minimal disruption
Manual upgrades and maintenance, with frequent downtime
SLA guarantee
99.999% SLA
No SLA
Pricing
Transparent, predictable pricing. No hidden costs
Variable expenses for cloud services or hardware and software for on-prem deployments
Security compliance
Built-in, with high level of security features and compliance with industry standards (SOC2, ISO27001, ISO27018, PCI-DDS, HIPPA)
Needs custom implementation
Customers love Instaclustr for Apache Kafka
Instaclustr has been instrumental in helping us build out our data-centric platform. Their consulting team did an amazing job in providing specific technical expertise around Apache Kafka, and their managed platform provides us with the confidence and reliability we need to continue to grow.
Technologies like Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka can be complex to manage efficiently and effectively. Instaclustr abstracts that complexity and helps us to stay focused on building our applications and services.
One of our engineering managers really ran point on Kafka specifically. It was a collaborative effort, but when it came to scaling and updates, we realized we needed a dedicated team like Instacluster to help us.
Why Instaclustr Is the smarter choice for Apache Kafka
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka runs Kafka in the cloud or on-prem, providing a production-ready and fully supported Kafka clusters.
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Fully managed and hosted, 100% open source +
- Run in Your Cloud Provider Account or Ours
- 24×7 Support
- SOC2, ISO27001 and ISO27018 Certified
- PCI-DSS and HIPAA Compliant
- Built in Monitoring
- Provision via Console, API or Terraform Provider
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99.999% SLA +
Our industry leading SLAs for Kafka set us apart. Enterprise deployments with dedicated Apache ZooKeeper or KRAFT nodes have a 99.999% SLA. Standard deployments still provide a 99.99% SLA.
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Dedicated Apache ZooKeeper™ or KRaft nodes +
NetApp offers dedicated Apache ZooKeeper or KRaft nodes to enhance performance and availability.
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Easily add Kafka® Connect +
Kafka Connect allows you to use low-code enterprise grade connectors between products in your data layer. Easily add Kafka Connect in our console.
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Managed mirroring +
NetApp offers managed mirroring via MirrorMaker 2 to mirror data between geographical regions, create active/active topologies, or create an additional copy of your data in another region with a failover cluster.
Our Technical Operations team takes full, end to end, responsibility for the availability of the mirroring service.
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Zero Downtime Migration +
Managed Apache Kafka makes it easy to horizontally scale Kafka by adding or removing nodes.
Streaming data at scale
Scalability
Apache Kafka is proven to scale from small streaming workloads up through millions of writes per second.
With NetApp Instaclustr, you can easily take advantage of this to scale the capacity of Kafka to support event-driven architectures or handle bursting workloads. Scaling goes both ways: we’ve helped customers scale down to reduce costs.
Reliability
Apache Kafka is a highly performant and fault-tolerant database to reliably stream and queue messages in event-driven architectures.
We optimized the configuration of Kafka to ensure the most robust reliability and performance for our managed service customers, with SLAs up to 99.999%
Automated health checks
Apache Kafka performs best when you use it intelligently.
Our system monitors your Kafka cluster and our 24x 7 team of dedicated Kafka experts are alerted whenever action or investigation is necessary.
Simple provisioning
With Instaclustr, you don’t have to think about any of the tricky cluster configurations. We’ve done all the hard work so that you can spin up a production-ready cluster within minutes via our console, API or Terraform.
Instaclustr for Apache Kafka makes it easy to horizontally or vertically scale Kafka.
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