Master Kafka at transaction scale
Data engineers at Worldpay, Block, and TD Bank use Kpow to inspect messages, enforce access controls, and prove DORA compliance-across Confluent, MSK, and self-hosted clusters.
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One UI and API for any flavour of Kafka
Kpow connects to any Apache Kafka compatible platform, including MSK, Confluent, Redpanda, Aiven, Instaclustr, and self-hosted clusters.
Message-level inspection with field-level masking (PII-safe)
Enforce least-privilege access across trading desks, clusters, and production environments
Audit logs that satisfy DORA Article 28 requirements
Built for financial institutions that can't afford downtime
Most Kafka tools give you either developer productivity or governance controls. Kpow does both. Data masking keeps PII out of sight, RBAC gives teams access to exactly what they need, and built-in audit logging handles the compliance trail.
Meet DORA, GDPR, and SOC 2 requirements with built-in audit trails. Every action from resource management to data inspection is logged with user attributes and timestamps.
Field-level data masking lets engineers troubleshoot production issues without seeing customer account numbers or transaction IDs.
Give developers access to Kafka without giving them the keys to the kingdom. Combine declarative YAML configuration with SAML and OAuth 2.0 integration, ensuring permissions scale securely with your org chart.
Nord/LB processes 500M+ messages daily through Kpow. No lag. No timeouts. Troubleshooting that used to take hours now takes minutes.
How German bank NORD/LB cut debugging time by 50%
Challenge
Nord/LB's data platform team was managing 200+ Kafka topics across on-prem and cloud environments. When message flows broke, engineers spent hours jumping between Grafana, Confluent Control Center, and custom scripts.
Solution
Kpow unified their observability stack with:
- Cross-cluster topic inspection in one interface
- Message timeline views that trace data lineage
- Configurable alerts for schema drift and throughput anomalies
Result
- Debugging time dropped from 4 hours to under 2 hours.
- Reduced in incidents associated with bad Kafka schemas.
- Compliance risks resolved with advanced access controls.
"Thanks to Kpow, we halved the time needed for debugging.
When it's bad data, we're very effective at figuring out why it's bad."
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