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.

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.

Built for financial institutions that can't afford downtime

Compliance without paperwork overhead

Meet DORA, GDPR, and SOC 2 requirements with built-in audit trails tracking all actions with user attributes and timestamps.

Inspect messages without exposing PII

Field-level data masking enables engineers to troubleshoot production issues securely without exposing sensitive customer data.

Self-service that doesn't create chaos

Combine declarative YAML configuration with SAML and OAuth 2.0 integration for scalable permissions management across teams.

Performance at scale

NORD/LB processes 500M+ messages daily through Kpow with no lag or timeouts.

How German bank NORD/LB cut debugging time by 50%

Challenge

NORD/LB's data platform team managed 200+ Kafka topics across on-premises and cloud environments. Message flow disruptions required engineers to navigate multiple tools for diagnosis.

Solution

  • Cross-cluster topic inspection in a unified interface
  • Message timeline views tracing data lineage
  • Configurable alerts for schema drift and throughput anomalies

Results

  • Debugging time reduced from 4 hours to under 2 hours
  • Reduced 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."