Apache Kafka® on the Instaclustr Managed Platform

Empowering enterprises to confidently deploy Apache Kafka data streaming and deliver applications at scale

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What is
Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open source distributed streaming platform designed to handle high-volume, real-time data streams. It provides a scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for ingesting, storing, and processing data in a publish-subscribe model.

Kafka’s key features include high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance, and the ability to handle massive data streams across multiple applications and systems, making it a popular choice for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures.

Meet Instaclustr for Apache Kafka

Instaclustr for Apache Kafka runs Kafka in the cloud or on-prem, providing a production-ready and fully supported Kafka clusters in minutes.

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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 HIPPA Compliant
- Built in Monitoring
- Provision via Console, API or Terraform Provider
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.
Dedicated Apache ZooKeeper or KRAFT nodes +

NetApp offers dedicated Apache ZooKeeper or KRAFT nodes to enhance performance and availability.
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.
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.
Zero Downtime Migration +

Managed Apache Kafka makes it easy to horizontally scale Kafka by adding or removing nodes.

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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.

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Instaclustr for Apache Kafka with Tiered storage

Move aging, less-accessed data to a more cost-effective object storage level in Kafka with tiered storage.

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Streaming data at scale

Focus on your core operations while we manage your Apache Kafka infrastructure

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.

“Instaclustr has enabled us to get underway quickly, the support team have been there from the beginning helping us to get it right the first time with our schema and architecture.”

— Ken Izumi, VP of Engineering, Paidy

Instaclustr Dedicated Apache Kafka support

Enjoy the assurance of industry-leading technical support when you need it. Whether you choose our managed service or run Kafka yourself, our dedicated team of Kafka operators, with many years of experience across a range of production environments, is here to help.

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