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1,000 Clusters, One Engine, No Tuning
We pointed one proposal engine at 1,000 randomly generated Kafka clusters - three brokers to a thousand, a thousand partitions to a million, every rack and replication shape we could think of. No per-cluster tuning. Here is how little the answer moves when you move everything else.
Replacing a Kafka Broker Without Under-Replicated Partitions
Just shutting down a broker that's getting replaced means hours of running with thousands of under-replicated partitions. Pilot's maintenance endpoint drains the broker first - one API call, no manual replica planning.
Pilot Agent: When Metadata Isn't Enough
Pilot started as a metadata-only Kafka tool. The new Pilot Agent is opt-in, lives next to your broker, and unlocks what the protocol cannot show.
From Alert to Fix in 60 Seconds: AI-Powered Kafka Operations
How Pilot's MCP-powered AI agent traced slow order processing to a disk-hot broker, rebalanced the affected topic, and resolved consumer lag - all through natural language with human approval gates.
Calinora Pilot Documentation is Live
We've published comprehensive documentation for Calinora Pilot at docs.calinora.io - getting started guides, feature deep-dives, deployment recipes, and a full API reference.
Introducing Calinora Pilot: A Simpler Alternative to Cruise Control
Every Kafka team hits the same wall. Broker load drifts, partitions need moving, and figuring out what's safe takes too long. That's why we built Pilot.
Welcome to the Calinora Blog
Introducing the Calinora blog - your source for product updates, Kafka best practices, and technical deep-dives.