Zeebe: the orchestration engine built for enterprise scale.
The distributed engine at the heart of Camunda. Built for the long-running, mission-critical processes your business depends on, and ready for the durable multi-agent coordination that comes next.
Built for the work your business is measured on
The processes your business is measured on are rarely short. Claims span weeks. Onboarding stretches across systems. Lending and underwriting run for days, sometimes months.
Customer commitments stay on track
Long-running cases hold their state across days, weeks, or months without dropping work or stalling.
Operations never go dark
If a node fails, another takes over automatically. No data loss, no downtime, no late-night incident calls.
Improvements ship without stopping the business
Deploy new process versions while current ones keep running. Migrate live cases at runtime.
Distributed by design
Most workflow engines route every transaction through a central database. That database becomes the bottleneck and the failure mode. Zeebe takes a different approach.
Horizontal scalability
No central database to choke on. Add nodes to add throughput.
Self-healing brokers
Peer-to-peer broker topology with no single point of failure.
Continuous version migration
Deploy new versions while current ones run. Upgrade continuously without ever stopping operations.
Native support for the patterns enterprise processes actually need
Real enterprise processes are not happy paths. They compensate, escalate, branch dynamically, correlate inbound events, and recover from upstream failures.
Compensation
Roll back a transaction cleanly when downstream steps fail.
Dynamic parallel execution
Spawn branches at runtime based on real-time conditions and merge results when complete.
Message correlation
Match inbound messages from external systems to the correct in-flight process instance.
Time-based escalation
Automatically route overdue tasks to the next tier when SLAs are at risk.
Durable coordination for multi-agent processes
Agentic processes need an engine that can hold state across long-running, multi-agent work.
Zeebe natively supports both handoff and supervisor agent patterns.
No other framework provides this at enterprise scale.