Solve Your Kafka Challenges with Axual’s Kafka Platform

Managing real-time data streaming can be complex and frustrating. Setting up and maintaining Kafka infrastructure takes time, expertise, and resources that could be better spent on your core business. Axual’s Kafka platform takes care of the hard part, providing a fully managed, secure, and scalable solution. With Axual, you get reliable data streaming without the operational burden—so your teams can focus on what matters most.

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Reliable Kafka Solutions for Seamless Data Streaming

Running Apache Kafka at scale can be a challenge. Keeping it secure, ensuring high availability, and managing complex integrations require expertise and resources. Axual takes care of the heavy lifting with a fully managed Kafka platform, so you don’t have to worry about downtime, security risks, or operational overhead. Whether you need real-time event streaming, effortless scalability, or enterprise-grade support, Axual provides a hassle-free solution tailored to your needs.

Fully Managed & Hassle-Free – No need to worry about setup, maintenance, or scaling. Axual handles everything, so your team can focus on building great applications.

Secure & Compliant – Enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance features ensure your data streams are protected and meet industry regulations.

Seamless Integration – Easily connect Kafka with your existing systems and applications, enabling real-time data flow without the complexity.

With Axual, you get the benefits of real-time data streaming without the operational burden. Whether you're scaling your business, ensuring compliance, or integrating with existing systems, our Kafka platform makes it simple and reliable. Let us handle the complexity so you can focus on innovation.

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Excited to dive into the world of seamless streaming and start revolutionizing your data experience? Fill out the form below, and we’ll guide you through our all-in-one Kafka Platform.

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A demo of Axual's event streaming platform, showcasing its specific features such as Schema registry, Topic browse, Data flow visualizer, and the Self-service UI.
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Set up Axual your way

Empower Infrastructure with Axual

Setting up is flexible and can fit your needs. You can use Axual on your own servers, in the cloud, or both. Our software grows with your data needs and works for many purposes. This means you can improve how data moves and make your work easier while still controlling your setup.

Architecture

Empower Kafka Development with Axual’s Architecture

Comprehensive tooling for managing your Kafka work stream. Make event streaming easy with these components:

Axual Governance

With Axual Governance, you can easily manage your Kafka topics, applications, schemas and connectors. It empowers your DevOps teams to use Kafka for their event streaming based apps without the complexity that it usually brings.

Axual Streaming

Data Plane Streaming focuses on enabling smooth data flow through its Kafka layer. Features such as Schema Registry and Rest Proxy can be utilized to effectively manage your data. The platform is designed to ensure that all your data clusters work together seamlessly for your convenience.

Infrastructure

When setting up your infrastructure, you have the flexibility to choose what works best for you. Whether it's Kubernetes or traditional VMs, hosted by a cloud provider or managed by your own platform team, we ensure that you have a robust and scalable infrastructure that caters to your specific needs.

Monitoring

Take advantage of our monitoring features to keep a watchful eye on your systems. Our services are compatible with popular log aggregator and metrics collector, utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Alert Manager, and Grafana to provide you with comprehensive insights.

Security and reliability

Axual improves security and reliability by offering additional services, such as using OIDC or Keycloak for authentication, Hashicorp Vault for secure secret storage, and a dedicated database for all your metadata.

Axual Runtime

Think of Axual Runtime as your personal application platform. It's where you can implement your own custom logic, allowing everything to work just the way you want.

Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
Axual all-in-one-kafka platform for real-time data streaming
About us

We are Axual

Streaming made simple, that is our goal.  Every day, we work to make this a reality.


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Features

A selection of features for seamlessly managing and utilizing Apache Kafka

Axual comes packed with features to enable the enterprise-wide adoption of Apache Kafka.

Self-Service

The Axual Self-Service UI simplifies Kafka interface management with an intuitive WYSIWYG interface, eliminating the command-line interface (CLI) complexity for a user-friendly experience.

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Topic browse

Limit your search using keywords, environment, and timeframe. Axual offers support to define custom environments to test-drive applications and promote them from development to production. Topic Browse & Search is aligned with this feature, which means that you can search for a topic’s messages in any environment, provided you are authorized to do so.

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Graphical Data flow

Axual's graphical data flow feature offers a visual interface for creating, managing, and monitoring real-time data pipelines. Users can use drag-and-drop components to represent data sources, processors, and sinks, making it easy to create and modify data flows. The tool also allows for real-time performance monitoring and ensures data governance and security. This simplifies data management, improves real-time insights, and promotes collaboration across teams, benefiting your organization.

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Schema registry

Schema Registry provides client applications with the Avro schemas available in a specific tenant. The Schema Registry is always connected to a single Kafka Broker in the same cluster to allow for clusters to have different tenant/instance isolation patterns. Axual supports a variety of Schema Registry implementations.

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