Running Kafka without a Kafka team: How Fiverr pairs AI agents with the Aiven MCP

Fiverr runs business-critical Apache Kafka® without dedicated Kafka specialists. In this live session, Oron Karmona (Fiverr) and Yoni Nezer (Aiven) show how the platform team uses an AI agent, connected through the Aiven MCP server, to get from alert to root cause.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Why consumer groups, offsets and lag are hard to reason about mid-incident, and where dashboards fall short
• How Fiverr’s platform team decided to pair AI agents with the Aiven MCP server
• The guardrails: what the agent can access, what it can change, and how the team made those calls
• How one agent combines Kafka, logs and cloud data to find a root cause
• Where the agent saves the team time on everyday projects, not just outages
• How to set up the same pattern yourself on Aiven’s managed agents