June 2019 Summaries

Aiven Kafka now supports Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) as an additional authentication method between applications and the Aiven Kafka endpoint. This allows users to replace access keys and certificates with a username and password. The supported SASL mechanisms include SASL Plain and SCRAM. To enable SASL support, users need to configure their producers and consumers accordingly. With this update, Aiven Kafka now offers two options for connecting producers and consumers: Client Certificate or SASL.

Aiven now supports sending its service logs to external OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) services, adding another option to the four available logging options. This integration works by sending log entries as JSON documents to an OpenSearch index with a specified prefix and date format. The fields passed to the new index include HOSTNAME, MESSAGE, SESSION_ID, SYSTEMD_UNIT, and TIMESTAMP. In addition to this latest option, users can access the past two days' logs via Aiven's console, API, or CLI; integrate their logging with one of Aiven's own OpenSearch services for unlimited retention right in Aiven; or use Aiven's syslog integration.