Seamless API-first connectivity for all
event-driven microservices and data inside the enterprise.
Maximized
Kafka Investment
Kafka's performance & resilience benefits extended across the application stack.
Offloaded
DevOps
Heavy Kafka integration middleware replaced by a single, stateless API layer.
Increased Developer Agility
Developers across teams accessing event-streams via their own APIs of choice.
Streamlined
Security Footprint
Centralized authorization & authentication of all non-Kafka clients.

Zilla Plus

Everything in OSS plus commercial integrations and enterprise support. Partner-certified versions available for Confluent Cloud, Redpanda, and AWS MSK.
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Support
  • 24x7 help desk with SLAs
  • Designated account manager
  • Access to solutions expert
  • Priority feature requests
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Zilla Open Source

Free, open source, mission-critical ready!
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  • The most advanced Kafka-native protocol mediation engine
  • REST, SSE, MQTT and gRPC Kafka proxying
  • No Kafka Connect®, custom Kafka integration code, web servers or intermediary MQTT brokers (for IoT use cases) needed
  • Client authentication via OAUTH 2.0 using JWT bearer tokens
  • Continuous Stream Authorization for SSE
  • TLS virtual hosting
  • Deploy on Docker or Kubernetes
Support
  • Zilla Community Slack
  • Separate enterprise support packages available
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Comparing Versions

The Aklivity Public MSK Proxy is an AWS Qualified solution.

Capability
Zilla Plus for Enterprise
Zilla Open Source
Web Streaming | HTTP+SEE to Kafka Proxying
Cloud
Formation Templates
✅
IoT Ingest and Control | MQTT to Kafka Proxying
✅
✅
Event Mesh | gRPC to Kafka Proxying
✅
✅
Secure Public Access | for Amazon MSK and Confluent Cloud
✅
-
Security | JWT auth, SSL/TLS via AWS PCA, secrets via Secrets Manager
✅
JWT client auth only
Logging | Stdout, Syslog, AWS CloudWatch
✅
Stdout only
Monitoring | Prometheus exporter
✅
✅
Schema Registry Integrations | Confluent SR, Karapace, AWS Glue
✅
Karapace only
API Registry Support | Apicurio
✅
✅
AsyncAPI Support | for validation and configuration
✅
✅
OpenAPI Support | for validation and configuration
✅
✅
Deployment
CloudFormation, Terraform, K8s
Homebrew, Docker, K8s
Support
Dedicated Enterprise support with SLA
Community Slack Channel
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