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Seamless Support for Your Data Streaming Infrastructure

Axual’s Strimzi Incident Support Services enclose a suite of offerings to optimize your Kafka environment on Kubernetes using Strimzi. Our experts are equipped to handle different aspects of Strimzi deployment, from initial setup to ongoing management and optimization. Ensuring your Kafka clusters on Kubernetes operate seamlessly and efficiently.

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What is Axual's Strimzi Incident Support Services

Axual’s Strimzi 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.

We offer Strimzi Support and Optimize for the components: Cluster Operator, Entity Operator, and Connect to meet our quality standards, guaranteeing reliability and performance.

With Axual Incident Support Services, rest assured that your Kafka infrastructure is supported by experienced specialists, allowing you to focus on driving innovation and business growth.

Solution

Axual’s Strimzi Incident Support Services enclose a suite of offerings to optimize your Kafka environment on Kubernetes using Strimzi. Our experts are equipped to handle different aspects of Strimzi deployment, from initial setup to ongoing management and optimization. Ensuring your Kafka clusters on Kubernetes operate seamlessly and efficiently.

Additional Incident Support for Your Kafka Ecosystem

As a complimentary service, we also provide Incident Support for the entity operator, Connect, and Kraft.

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Severity levels
Severity levels

Our support system categorizes incidents into four severity levels to prioritize and address them effectively. From urgent, business-critical disruptions to non-urgent queries, each severity level ensures that your Kafka environment receives the appropriate attention and care to function optimally and reliably. Here’s a detailed breakdown of what each severity level entails.


Silver Support

Axual provides second-line support for your maintenance teams to resolve issues in private clusters deployed on-premise or in private clouds. It is available 5x9 based on EU business hours.

Gold Support

Axual provides second-line support to our customers’ maintenance teams for the resolution of issues in private clusters deployed on-premise or in private clouds, available 24/7.

Severity 1 – urgent

An issue with Strimzi Kafka is actively causing serious interruptions to your business’s critical operations. This issue requires immediate attention, as it poses a significant risk to your business.

Severity 2 – high

An issue with Strimzi Kafka that is partially functional (such as degradation of service, but the service is still available) and actively impacting your business operations. This is an issue on a business critical system requiring accelerated attention.

Severity 3 – medium

An issue with Strimzi Kafka that is currently functioning as expected, but you either (1) recently experienced a degradation that you are monitoring or seeking a root cause for or (2) you are seeing indicators of a potential loss of functionality to a business-critical system.

Severity 4 – low

A non-urgent query regarding Strimzi Kafka. Typically, it is something that does not involve any interruption to your business's critical operations.

Costs

Coverage per channel

The tables below are based on incidents that occurred on Strimzi. We’re leaving no stone unturned to give you a clear picture of the issues and patterns within Strimzi, excluding any external application-related mishaps. This means that only incidents directly related to Strimzi are included, while incidents related to applications running on Strimzi are excluded. For example, we will not address a development coding error in a Kafka application developed by the client and running on Strimzi.

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Our Strimzi support packages

Silver subscription
€1500
per month per environment.*
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9 am to 5 pm support for severity 1 and 2 issues

Support through web and phone

Unlimited number of cases

8 hours support/month included; additional hours billed separately

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Response Time: 1 business hour

Gold subscription
€2500
per month per environment.*
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24/7 support for severity 1 and 2 issues

Web, phone, and access to enhanced team

Unlimited number of cases

8 hours support/month included; additional hours billed separately

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Response Time: 15 minutes

*The pricing is based on a maximum of three brokers, meaning the same fee applies for each additional set of three brokers thereafter.

Answers to your questions about Axual’s Silver and Gold Incident Support Services

Are you curious about Incident Support? Dive into our FAQs for all the details you need. Discover how we can ensure your Kafka environment stays up to date, how our experts handle incidents, and more. Find answers to your burning questions and learn how Incident Support Services can keep your operations running smoothly, allowing you to focus on driving innovation and business growth.

What does Strimzi Incident Support cover?

Strimzi Incident Support from Axual provides Level 1 and 2 support for operational issues within your Strimzi environment. This includes ensuring the smooth operation of Strimzi instances that meet our quality standards, whether they are provided by Axual or not. We conduct an assessment to determine if we can deliver the necessary support for setups not supplied by us.

What is not covered by Strimzi Incident Support?

Axual’s support does not extend to development issues, such as investigating code errors in custom applications running on the Strimzi environment. Additionally, it does not cover application-specific tuning or debugging, regardless of whether the application is developed in-house or purchased.

What are the severity levels for incidents?

Severity 1 – urgent

Critical issues actively cause serious disruptions to business operations.

Severity 2 – high

Partially functional issues impacting business operations on critical systems.

Severity 3 – medium

Issues currently functioning but with recent degradation or potential future impact.

Severity 4 – low

Non-urgent queries not impacting critical operations.

What problems does Strimzi Incident Support solve?

Axual’s support ensures the reliability and continuous operation of your Kafka environment. It leverages Kafka professionals to provide you peace of mind and cost-effective solutions to avoid downtime.

How does Axual assess and qualify support requests?

Before providing support, Axual conducts an intake process. This includes evaluating factors like lifecycle management, automation levels, tooling for monitoring and management, team skills, and system load. Based on this assessment, we determine if immediate support is feasible or if improvements are needed for effective support delivery.