Pentaho Support

24/7 Pentaho Support with a 15-Minute Emergency SLA

AceMQ keeps Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) and Pentaho Server running in production — driver mismatches after infrastructure patches, repository lock contention, and jobs that silently stop firing after an upgrade. We also help teams that are honestly ready to move off Pentaho plan that migration properly.

Senior Pentaho engineers on call right now — 24/7/365
15 min emergency SLA24 /7 global coverage130 + enterprise customers26 + countries served

Trusted for mission-critical Pentaho by teams in finance, healthcare, defense, and telecom

Escalation Path

Your first hour of a Pentaho outage

Most vendors publish an SLA number. This is what actually happens, minute by minute, when you page a senior AceMQ engineer.

T+0

You page us

Phone, email, or Slack — any channel reaches the on-call senior engineer directly. No web form, no tier-1 queue.

T+15

Named engineer live

A senior engineer who already knows your environment joins a live bridge. Zero cold-start, no re-explaining your topology.

T+30

Root cause isolated

Direct broker access, log and metric review, and a working hypothesis with a rollback plan before we touch anything.

Post

Written RCA

Documented root cause, the fix applied, and the prevention steps — delivered after every P1, not just when asked.

Response Times

SLA tiers, contractually guaranteed

Every tier reaches a senior Pentaho engineer. There is no tier-1 triage layer to get through.

P1 — Emergency
15 min

Production down, messages not flowing, cluster or broker failure

P2 — Critical
1 hour

Severe degradation, rising error rates, approaching capacity limits

P3 — High
4 hours

Performance issues, configuration problems, non-critical failures

P4 — Standard
Next day

Questions, guidance, best practices, non-urgent improvements

Incident Triage

Pentaho problems we fix every week

These are real symptoms from real Pentaho production environments — and the first thing our engineers check when one comes in.

A transformation that ran fine for years suddenly fails on one step
What we check firstJDBC driver version and JVM version against what the transformation was originally built and certified against. An OS patch or Java upgrade on the host is the most common trigger for a step that had never touched in years.
Typical resolution1–3 hours
Pentaho Server won't start or repository operations hang
What we check firstRepository database lock state and connection pool exhaustion. A crashed job that didn't release its repository lock cleanly is the usual cause, not corruption — though we check for actual repository corruption if the lock clears and the problem persists.
Typical resolution2–4 hours
Scheduled jobs stopped firing after a Pentaho upgrade, no error logged
What we check firstQuartz scheduler configuration and job trigger definitions in the repository. Upgrades frequently reset or silently break Quartz cron expressions and trigger associations without surfacing an error anywhere visible.
Typical resolution1–2 hours
Large transformation runs out of memory or slows to a crawl
What we check firstCarte/PDI engine JVM heap allocation against actual row volume and step complexity, plus whether the transformation is doing in-memory sorts or lookups that should be pushed to the database instead.
Typical resolution1–3 hours
Job succeeds but downstream data is missing or duplicated
What we check firstStep-level error handling configuration and whether a step is set to continue on error rather than fail the job. Silent row drops from misconfigured error handling are a frequent Kettle gotcha.
Typical resolutionUnder 2 hours
License or support renewal lapsed and we're stuck on an old version
What we check firstCurrent version against Hitachi Vantara's end-of-life timeline, and whether known CVEs or bugs in your version have workarounds we can apply without an upgrade.
Typical resolutionSame day
Clustered Carte servers get out of sync on job execution
What we check firstSlave server configuration and load balancing setup in the job entry. Misconfigured slave server definitions cause jobs to execute against a stale or unreachable Carte instance.
Typical resolution2–4 hours

Resolution times reflect typical Pentaho engagements under an active AceMQ support contract. Every P1 closes with a written root-cause analysis.

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What's Included

Everything in your Pentaho support contract

No add-on pricing for incidents. No per-ticket charges. One contract covers the whole surface.

Emergency Incident Response

A production ETL job that finance, reporting, or downstream systems depend on stops running. A senior engineer joins a live bridge within 15 minutes with access to diagnose — not a ticket acknowledgement.

Root Cause Analysis

Every P1 closes with a written RCA: what failed, why, the fix applied, and the specific driver, config, or scheduler change that prevents recurrence.

Performance Tuning

Carte and PDI engine memory tuning, step-level optimization to push work into the database instead of the transformation engine, and job orchestration cleanup for large batch runs.

Legacy Version Maintenance

Support for end-of-life Pentaho versions still running in regulated or change-controlled environments, including workarounds for known bugs with no official patch available.

Migration Planning & Execution

Honest assessment of whether to keep, upgrade, or replace a Pentaho deployment — and execution of a migration to Airbyte or a modern ELT stack when that's genuinely the better path.

Repository & Scheduler Health Reviews

Quarterly checks on repository integrity, Quartz scheduler configuration, and job/transformation inventory so upgrade risk and technical debt don't compound silently.

Anywhere You Run It

We support Pentaho wherever it's deployed

Cloud, Kubernetes, bare metal, hybrid, and air-gapped — including environments where you can't give us outbound network access.

Pentaho Server (on-premise)Pentaho Data Integration / KettleAWS EC2 & self-managed cloudVMware vSphereBare metal & on-premise data centersClustered Carte deploymentsAir-gapped / no outbound accessLegacy end-of-life versions (7.x, 8.x)Hybrid on-prem to cloud warehouseRegulated / change-controlled environments
Why AceMQ

What you get that you don't get elsewhere

Named Engineers, Zero Cold Start

The same senior engineers stay on your account. They know your transformation inventory, your repository structure, and where the fragile jobs are — so a P1 starts with diagnosis, not an environment walkthrough.

No Tier-1 Triage Layer

You reach a senior Pentaho engineer directly by phone, email, or Slack. No help desk collecting information to pass along, no approval process between you and someone who can fix it.

We Still Know Kettle Deeply

Most consultancies have moved on from Pentaho entirely. Our engineers still work in PDI transformations regularly, which matters when the fix requires actually understanding step-level behavior, not just restarting a service.

Genuine Follow-the-Sun Coverage

Engineers across 26+ countries and every time zone. Your overnight batch failure is someone's mid-afternoon — no waiting for a region to wake up.

Honest About Maintain vs. Migrate

We will tell you plainly when a Pentaho deployment is stable and cheap to keep running, and when the maintenance burden or end-of-life risk means migration is the better financial decision. Neither answer earns us more retainer revenue than the other.

Full-Stack, Not Just the ETL Tool

Pentaho problems are frequently JDBC driver, JVM, OS patch, or database-side problems wearing a Pentaho error message. We diagnose across the whole stack because that's where root causes usually live.

FAQ

Pentaho support questions

Your Pentaho Jobs Shouldn't Depend on Nobody Touching Them

Whether you need emergency response tonight, a support contract for a legacy version, or an honest migration assessment, AceMQ staffs every engagement with a named senior Pentaho engineer. Support quotes returned within 24 hours.

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Talk to a Support Expert

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