Zilla Platform

Kafka's Missing Management Layer

Bring governance, observability, and self-service access to your data streaming deployment.

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Launch Data Products Faster

Get real-time data products to market in minutes instead of months.

Lower Integration Costs

Eliminate expensive custom connectors and reduce ongoing maintenance costs.

Reduce Risk & Stay Compliant

Keep sensitive data safe with built-in governance and compliance controls.

Deploy Anywhere

Run on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid — without re-architecting your data stack.

Powering Global Data Driven Organizations

Platform Overview

One Unified Platform, Two Powerful Components

A federated management control plane combined with a high-performance data plane — built to run anywhere.

Apache Kafka

Amazon MSK

Confluent

Redpanda / Aiven

Any Kafka Deployment

Configure

Control Plane

Zilla Console

Explore, design and collaborate. Deploy on-premise or in the cloud.

Centralized policy & identity management across teams
Built-in Kafka visual explorer
Publish API Data Products with live contracts
Searchable catalog for discovery & reuse

Data Plane

Zilla Gateways

Proxy, govern and validate. Deploy on-premise, in the cloud or at the edge.

Kafka-native proxy with line-rate performance
Multi-protocol access (Kafka, REST, SSE, MQTT, gRPC)
Enforces schemas, policies, filtering, & identities at the edge

Enforce

Producers & Consumers

Kafka Clients

HTTP + SSE Apps

MQTT Clients

gRPC Services

Core Capabilities

Control Without Stack-Bloat

The Zilla Platform combines a stateless, Kafka-native gateway that governs access to your Kafka clusters with a lightweight management console that unifies control, observability, and self-service discovery.

API Data Products

Package Kafka topics as versioned, discoverable data products with rate limits, subscriptions, and API key access — like a traditional API gateway for event streams.

Kafka Governance

Enforce topic naming, retention policies, producer/consumer rules, and cluster-level guardrails. Run policies in audit or enforcement mode.

Schema Validation

Streaming JSON, Avro, and Protobuf validation at the gateway. Prevent poison-pill messages and bad data from entering your pipelines, even without a Schema Registry.

Multi-Protocol Kafka Access

Gateway handles HTTP, gRPC, SSE, and MQTT protocol translation to Kafka. Directly expose Kafka to non-Kafka clients without connectors or ETL pipelines.

Self-Service Developer Portal

Developers discover data products, register applications, create subscriptions, and get API keys — all without tickets or waiting on the platform team.

Observability & Policy

Kafka client error diagnostics, protocol-level metrics, Grafana integration, and OTLP export. Alerting when metrics exceed thresholds.

How It Works

From Kafka Topics to Governed Data Products — in Minutes

Manage the full lifecycle of real-time data by turning raw Kafka topics into self-serviceable, governed data products.

Step 1

Explore Your
Operational Data
Streams

Once a Zilla gateway is deployed alongside your Kafka cluster, it establishes a secure connection with the management portal, allowing you to visualize and explore brokers, topics, schemas, consumer groups, ACLs, quotas, and more.

Step 2

Extract AsyncAPI Specifications

In a single click, extract AsyncAPI specifications from topics and schemas that describe and document your data streaming topology.

Step 3

Design Real-Time Data Products

Take the extracted AsyncAPI specifications and turn them into API Data Products by locking down the schema while adding authorization, authentication, and rate limiting.

Step 4

Deploy Real-Time Data Products

Deploy the designed Data Products to a self-serve catalog and share them across your organization and beyond. Monitor the usage, health, and security of your Data Products all in one place.

Use Cases

Power Apps, Team, Partners & AI. Streamline Kafka Governance.

Kafka Self-Service Platform

Enable engineering teams to independently provision, configure, and consume Kafka data through API data products — without relying on central platform teams for manual setup or approvals.

Decentralize Kafka access across teams
Eliminate ticket-based provisioning
Maintain governance and guardrails

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Event-Driven Partner Integration

Expose Kafka-based data products to external partners securely, with rate limiting, access control, and API key management — without exposing brokers.

Onboard partners in days, not months
Enforce per-partner quotas and isolation
Clean onboarding/offboarding lifecycle

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Future-Proof Platform & Migration

Decouple Kafka clients from brokers via API data products. Switch Kafka vendors or configurations without any client-side changes.

Swap Kafka clusters transparently
No client reconfiguration required
Reduce vendor lock-in risk

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Event-Driven Applications

Enable non-Kafka developers to access real-time streams through familiar HTTP, gRPC, SSE, or MQTT interfaces — backed by Kafka.

No Kafka expertise required for consumers
Multiple protocol support
Real-time data for every application

For Web & Mobile

For IoT

Financial Serivces

Securely expose Kafka-based financial data as governed, real-time APIs for market data distribution, trade/payment processing, and ecosystem integration.

Expose Kafka data as secure SSE, WebSocket or Kafka APIs for partners and apps
Enforce governance with schemas, access control, and auditability
Enable low-latency distribution of market and payment data at scale

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Industrials & Manufacturing

Ingest IoT and machine data into Kafka and expose it as secure, real-time APIs, enabling predictive maintenance, seamless integration, and scalable, governed manufacturing operations.

Ingest IoT data directly into Kafka — no MQTT broker + Kafka Connect needed
Expose real-time data via APIs for integration and monitoring
Enable predictive maintenance and scalable, governed operations

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Online Gaming & Sportsbook

Distribute real-time gaming and betting data from Kafka to end users via scalable APIs, enabling live odds, low-latency updates, and seamless fan experiences at global scale.

Stream real-time game and betting data to users with low latency
Scale live odds, events, and updates to millions of concurrent users
Secure and govern data streams with access control and auditability

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Integrations

Works with your existing stack

Zilla integrates seamlessly with your security, monitoring, and deployment tools.

Security

Microsoft Entra ID

AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Secrets Manager

JWT

Monitoring & Logging

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

AWS CloudWatch

Syslog

Deployment

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS CDK

AWS ECS Fargate

Our Partners

Built for the Kafka Ecosystem

We work closely with the most trusted names in the Kafka ecosystem to ensure that Zilla integrates natively and optimally with your existing infrastructure.

Whether you're running open-source Kafka or managed services, Zilla delivers performance, security, and compatibility out of the box.

Customer Stories

Trusted by Global
Data-Driven Organizations

“Zilla Plus gave us exactly what we needed — secure, Kafka-native connectivity to our private MSK clusters from anywhere, without compromising security or building custom integrations. It’s accelerated our project delivery and simplified how we connect critical business systems across our ecosystem.”

Karthik Rajendran

Platform Owner, KONE

KONE

How KONE Uses Zilla Plus to Securely Bridge Amazon MSK with SAP Cloud & Beyond

Key Results

Connected MSK clusters securely without public exposure

Accelerated project delivery across SAP & third-party systems

Reduced dev overhead by eliminating custom integrations

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‍“Zilla’s extensive protocol support, integrations with AWS services such as Glue Schema Registry and Secrets Manager, as well as robust logging capabilities, gives me confidence it can be a one-stop solution for all of our external MSK integration needs.”