Axual - Kafka-as-a-Service for DevOps teams

Empower your team to unlock insights and drive decisions with our intuitive Kafka platform.

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Product

The all-in-one Kafka platform for
enterprises

Axual offers the ultimate solution for enterprises looking to seamlessly integrate data streaming into their core IT infrastructure. Our all-in-one Kafka platform is designed to eliminate the need for extensive technical knowledge or skills, and provides a ready-made solution that delivers all the benefits of event streaming without the hassle.

This allows you to focus on what you do best

Axual Platform

The Axual Platform is a all-in-one solution, designed to help you simplify and enhance the deployment, management, and utilization of real-time data streaming with Apache Kafka. By providing an array of features that cater to the diverse needs of modern enterprises, the Axual Platform enables organizations to harness the full potential of data streaming while minimizing complexity and operational overhead.

Axual Governance

Axual Governance is a crucial component of the Axual platform. It focuses on ensuring data quality, compliance, and accountability in real-time data streaming environments. The platform provides a wide range of tools and features designed to help you effectively manage, monitor, and secure your data streams.

Axual Streaming

Axual Streaming is a platform designed to simplify deploying, managing, and scaling real-time data streaming applications using Apache Kafka. With Axual Streaming, organizations can harness the power of Kafka to build reliable, scalable, and high-performance data pipelines without the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure.

Infrastructure and deployment

Deploy your Kafka platform wherever you need it. Our Infrastructure layer uses Kubernetes, allowing you to deploy on any cloud provider or on-premises. It's all about flexibility and ensuring your platform fits seamlessly into your existing setup.

Axual Cloud

The Axual platform brings together Governance, Streaming, and Infrastructure into one powerful, integrated solution. It's designed for DevOps engineers, enterprise architects, and platform managers who need a reliable, efficient, and scalable Kafka solution. With Axual, you get the best of all worlds, tailored to your enterprise needs.

Empower your team to unlock insights and drive decisions with our intuitive Kafka platform.

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Axual services

Expertise in Kafka and Strimzi

Axual Services offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to help you deploy, manage, and optimize real-time data streaming applications with Apache Kafka. These services are designed to meet the diverse needs of enterprises, from initial setup and configuration to ongoing management and optimization.

Axual Services also include incident support for Strimzi, an open-source project that simplifies running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Our team of certified professionals has extensive experience deploying and managing Kafka and Strimzi, ensuring you get the best out of your data streaming infrastructure.

Strimzi Incident Services

Axual’s Strimzi Incident Support Services are designed to ensure your Kafka environment operates seamlessly. Whether running a customized Strimzi setup or leveraging our Axual Suite, our team is ready to deliver Level 1 and 2 support with precision and expertise.

Migration Services

Axual’s Kafka Migration Services are designed to ensure your Kafka environment transitions and operates smoothly. Whether you're migrating from a customized setup or leveraging our Axual Suite, we support and optimize any Kafka migration to meet our quality standards, guaranteeing reliability and performance.

Managed Services

Ensure uninterrupted access to your Kafka ecosystem. With Axual’s Managed Services, you gain a comprehensive solution that delivers seamless access, security, and efficient management of your Kafka infrastructure.

Features

Simplify collaboration and streamline data sharing

Axual comes packed with features to enable the enterprise-wide adoption of Apache Kafka, including robust security, real-time monitoring, and self-service capabilities. It offers managed services, seamless integration, and extensive developer support, ensuring efficient, scalable, and secure Kafka deployments across various enterprise environments.

Topic browse

When searching, use keywords, environment, and timeframe to narrow down results. Axual helps create custom environments for testing and deploying applications. The Browse & Search feature allows you to find messages related to a topic across different environments.

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Topic catalog

Understanding which topics exist on Kafka is useful for promoting the reuse of existing data streams.

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Terraform provider - GitOps support

The Terraform provider with GitOps support allows you to define topic and application configurations in Git repositories for seamless deployment to Axual. It enables managing the streaming topology as code, ensuring version control and traceability of interface definitions.

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Architecture

Empower Kafka Development with Axual’s Architecture

Comprehensive tooling for managing your Kafka workloads. 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
Let data flow seamlessly

Data Integration Solutions

We understand that different industries have unique data challenges and requirements. That's why we've tailored our solutions to meet the needs of various industries.

By industry

Explore how our tailored Kafka solutions can revolutionize operations in your industry. Whether you're in finance, healthcare, retail, government, energy, or beyond, our specialized expertise ensures scalable, secure, and efficient data streaming and processing. Discover how we can optimize your workflows and unlock new possibilities with Apache Kafka.

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By use case

Explore our tailored Kafka solutions designed to meet diverse business needs and use cases. Whether you want to enhance real-time data processing, streamline data integration across systems, or build scalable event-driven architectures, our Kafka solutions provide great capabilities to empower your organization.

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Empower Infrastructure with Axual

Our setup is flexible and can be customized to meet your requirements. You can run Axual on your own infrastructure, in the cloud, or both. If you choose the cloud option, we provide both public and private cloud services. . 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.

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Connectors

Easily Connect Your Data Across
The Enterprise

Axual offers 100+ supported connectors, enabling you to stream data between
Apache Kafka and other data systems in a reliable and scalable way.

To export data from any relational database
MongoDB
Debezium for MongoDB
Debezium for SQL Server
SAP source connector
JDBC
Snowflakesink
Cassandra
MQTT
To import data from any relational database
Couchbase
OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite
Google Cloud Storage
Redissink
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Kafka Use cases

Read use cases and success stories from our customers

De Volksbank

Becoming data-driven and customer-centric in a highly regulated environment

Rabobank

Read how Rabobank became an event-driven bank and scaled Kafka across 150+ DevOps teams

Eneco

Read how Eneco is using Axual’s event streaming platform as the next step in their energy transition

Answers to your questions about Axual’s All-in-one Kafka Platform

Are you curious about our All-in-one Kafka platform? Dive into our FAQs
for all the details you need, and find the answers to your burning questions.

Why should I use Axual for Apache Kafka?

Simplification: Apache Kafka users benefit from Axual's simplification of managing Kafka complexities through a user-friendly interface and tools that abstract away much of the operational overhead associated with Kafka clusters, thereby reducing the learning curve and operational burden for teams.Enterprise-Grade Security: Security is a top priority in enterprise environments. Axual's out-of-the-box security features, including encryption, authentication, and authorization mechanisms, provide immediate protection for your data and Kafka infrastructure, ensuring they are secure from unauthorized access and breaches.

Which connectors can I use with Axual for Apache Kafka?

Axual for Apache Kafka supports a wide range of connectors, enhancing its versatility and integration capabilities. Some of the connectors you can use with Axual include: Debezium, Cassandra, JDBC and IBM 
 MQ and many more. Explore our full list of connecters(link to connectors page)

What’s included in Axual's customer support for Kafka?

Using Axual includes access to support services and expertise from Kafka and streaming data specialists. This can be invaluable for troubleshooting issues, optimizing performance, and planning for future growth.