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Govern, Share, and Secure
AI Agents and APIs at Scale

One gateway for Kafka streams and AI model APIs. Enforce access policies, publish real-time data as governed products, and give every app and partner secure, observable access without custom middleware.

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Community

Zilla

Free to deploy, modify, and run under the Aklivity Community License.

• ✓ HTTP, MQTT, gRPC, SSE, WebSocket
• ✓ MCP Gateway for AI agents & LLM tools
• ✓ AsyncAPI & OpenAPI spec-driven config
• ✓ JWT guards, TLS, schema validation
• ✓ Kubernetes & Helm support

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Plus

Zilla Plus

Production hardening, enterprise integrations, and Zilla Console available as an add-on.

• ✓ Everything in Zilla
• ✓ Secure public & private Kafka access
• ✓ Virtual clusters & multi-tenancy
• ✓ AWS MSK & Confluent Cloud templates
• ✓ Zilla Console add-on available

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Enterprise

Zilla Gateway + Console

Full governance, data products, and policy enforcement on top of Zilla Plus.

• ✓ Everything in Zilla Plus
• ✓ Data product catalog & self-service
• ✓ Governed Kafka endpoints & mTLS
• ✓ Policy enforcement & audit logs
• ✓ Visual console & observability

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Kafka Gateway

Multi-protocol gateway that translates HTTP, SSE, MQTT, and gRPC to and from Kafka. Schema validation, auth, and TLS built in. No custom code required.

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Zilla Console

Governance, observability, and self-service access for Apache Kafka. Secure data streams for Kafka-native and non-Kafka consumers through one management layer.

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AI Gateway

Unified gateway for AI model APIs. Route, secure, and observe traffic to OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted LLMs through a single, policy-enforced endpoint.

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Secure Agent Access

Give an AI agent one authenticated endpoint to hold a credential for, no matter how many upstream tool providers sit behind it. Add or rotate upstreams with no agent-side changes.

Observable AI Agents

See every tool call an AI agent makes, dimensioned by toolkit and outcome. Metrics export to Prometheus or OTLP: no instrumentation in the agent or upstream server.

HTTP APIs as Tools

Expose a plain REST API as MCP tools with no MCP server standing between it and the gateway. Each tool is named in configuration and validated by a schema converter.

Self-Serve API Products

Discover, subscribe, and produce or consume streams through a governed catalog. Schema validation, auth, and rate limiting enforced at the gateway.

Governed Kafka Endpoints

Direct, governed access for native Kafka clients via a dedicated hostname:port. Enforce mTLS, issue client certificates, and expose a Schema Registry, all in one config.

Secure Public Access

Expose private MSK or Confluent Cloud clusters publicly. Custom domains, TLS, and auth at the edge. No VPC peering needed.

Virtual Clusters

Multi-tenant Kafka access via a single gateway. Isolated namespaces, per-tenant auth, and independent topic visibility. No extra clusters required.

HTTP ↔ Kafka

CRUD on Kafka topics over HTTP. POST to produce, GET to consume, with idempotent keys and content-type negotiation included. No Kafka client needed.

SSE ↔ Kafka

Stream Kafka events to browsers in real time over Server-Sent Events. No WebSocket, no polling, no Kafka client. Just a standard HTTP connection.