Zilla Platform
Kafka's Missing Management Layer
Bring governance, observability, and self-service access to your Kafka deployment. Package streams as API Data Products for non-Kafka consumers. Govern Kafka-native clients directly through Kafka Endpoints. Deliver real-time data to apps, partners, and AI agents — through a single control plane.
Launch Data Products Faster
Get real-time data products to market in minutes. Self-service access for internal teams, external partners, and AI agents.
Lower Integration Costs
Eliminate custom connectors, consumer services, and middleware. One gateway for every protocol and every consumer.
Reduce Risk & Stay Compliant
PII classification, field-level encryption, schema validation, and full audit trails. Shift-left enforcement at the gateway edge.
Deploy Anywhere
Run on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS CDK, ECS Fargate. No re-architecture required.
Powering Global Data Driven Organizations
Platform Overview
One Platform, Two Planes
A federated management control plane combined with a high-performance, stateless data plane — built to run anywhere, on top of any Kafka deployment.
Zilla Console
Explore, design, govern, and collaborate. The management console for your entire Kafka deployment.
Zilla Gateways
Proxy, govern, and validate at runtime. Stateless, high-performance enforcement at the edge.
Core Capabilities
Control Without Stack-Bloat
Everything you need to operationalize Kafka — governance, data products, observability, and self-service — in a single, lightweight platform.
API Data Products
Package Kafka topics as versioned, discoverable data products with rate limits, subscriptions, and API key access — like a traditional API gateway, but for event streams.
Kafka Governance
Govern Kafka-native clients directly. Enforce topic naming, producer/consumer runtime policies, schema compliance, and rate limits without requiring clients to change how they connect.
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
Expose Kafka to any client via HTTP, gRPC, SSE, MQTT, or native Kafka protocol — without connectors, ETL pipelines, or custom consumer services. MCP support coming soon for AI agent connectivity.
Self-Service Developer Portal
Developers discover data products, register applications, create subscriptions, and get API keys or mTLS certificates — without tickets or waiting on the platform team.
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Data Privacy & Encryption
Classify PII and sensitive fields. Enforce policy-based encryption and redaction at the gateway. Field-level encryption with external KMS integration. Unauthorized consumers see redacted data.
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, Teams, Partners & AI Agents
Streamline Kafka governance and unlock real-time data for every consumer.
Kafka Self-Service Platform
Enable engineering teams to independently discover, subscribe to, and consume Kafka data — through both API data products and governed Kafka Endpoints — without relying on the platform team for manual setup.
Decentralize Kafka access across teams via self-service catalog
Eliminate ticket-based provisioning for topics, credentials, and schemas
Maintain governance guardrails through policy enforcement at the gateway
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 tenant isolation
Clean onboarding/offboarding lifecycle with managed credentials
Future-Proof Platform & Migration
Decouple Kafka clients from brokers via API data products and Kafka Endpoints. Switch Kafka vendors, configurations, or cloud regions without any client-side changes.
Swap Kafka clusters transparently behind the gateway
No client reconfiguration required — abstracted bootstrap servers
Reduce vendor lock-in risk
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.
Web & mobile apps consume via REST and SSE
IoT devices publish and subscribe via MQTT — no broker needed
AI agents access Kafka data as tool-callable resources via MCP
Financial Services
Securely expose Kafka-based financial data as governed, real-time APIs for market data distribution, trade and payment processing, and ecosystem integration — with compliance controls built in.
Expose Kafka data as secure SSE, WebSocket, or Kafka APIs for partners and apps
Enforce governance with schemas, access control, encryption, and audit trails
Enable low-latency distribution of market and payment data at scale
PII classification and field-level encryption for regulatory compliance
Industrials & Manufacturing
Ingest IoT and machine data into Kafka and expose it as secure, real-time APIs. Native MQTT-to-Kafka protocol translation at the gateway — no MQTT broker, no Kafka Connect, no custom middleware.
Ingest IoT data directly into Kafka — sensors publish MQTT, Zilla maps to topics
Expose real-time data via APIs for integration and monitoring
Enable predictive maintenance and scalable, governed operations
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
Integrations
Works with your existing stack
Zilla integrates seamlessly with your security, monitoring, and deployment tools.
Microsoft Entra ID
AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Secrets Manager
JWT
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
AWS CloudWatch
Syslog
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.
“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
Key Results
Connected MSK clusters securely without public exposure
Accelerated project delivery across SAP & third-party systems
Reduced dev overhead by eliminating custom integrations
“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.”
Gordon Zardoya
Solution Architect, N Brown-Castle Fintech
Key Results
Secure endpoints enabled fast partner integrations
Lead time cut, team focused on Kafka design
Unified interface across Kafka and non-Kafka apps
Ready to Get Started?
Get started on your own or request a demo with one of our data management experts.
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