Astro by Astronomer Pros and Cons

The fact that it is a SaaS lets our team focus on the coding side; it is quite simple to start using Airflow as you can skip all the initial setups. This is particularly useful for those teams that started using Python and are more distant from the infra side (i.e. data Scientists, analysts, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that the monitoring dashboard is not rich enough in all circumstances so that we can fully understand possible issues there. For instance, there is no option for accessing KubernetesPod settings alongside our cloud account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of setting up and launching Airflow in production. Suits well for teams which have limited data engineering capacity and allows to focus more on the business logic for the pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have been using the product for 3 months now. I do not see any limitations per se with the Astro itself. It used to have very limited functionality for integrating dbt projects but with the latest release, this concern is addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Till date , best Orchestration tool in Market.

- Ability to integrate multiple tools,services across Market.

- Better UI till date to see job status.

- Easy of use .

- Various Executor based on use case(celery , kubernetes) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Cost transperancy could be improved.

- Library guidelines needs to be stated clearly.

- Detailed loggin would be beneficial for issue tracking.

- In windows, we are facing frequent UI loading issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Astro is a very easy-to-use platform.

- The Astro CLI makes it simple to manage your Airflow deployments from the command line, and the Astro UI is user-friendly and well-designed

-. Being a Managed platform developer can more focus on providing business solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costing is sometimes not transparent and the COSMOS library is still something we can do and add new features as it is restricted on to DBT and hoping it can also give addition view if added for DLT tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool offers a user-friendly solution for managing complex workflows through its intuitive interface. Users can easily create, schedule, and monitor intricate data pipelines, benefiting from enhanced logging and monitoring features. The platform's visual workflow builder simplifies the design of tasks and dependencies, while streamlined connection and secret management ensure secure access to data sources without manual configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform's ease of use might come with limitations in cases requiring highly customized or unconventional workflow setups. Additionally, Astro's dependency on Astronomer's infrastructure could limit flexibility for specific use cases. While Astro aims to streamline deployment, the intricacies of setting up and managing Airflow clusters could still pose challenges, especially for users less familiar with cloud infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much to be honest. In fact, the only interesting thing is that the infrastructure can scale automatically to run your scheduled jobs.

Also the technical support, if pinged strongly, can dedicate few hours to your issue, even in a meeting where the technical guys are sharing their screen with all the technical details. This is really helpful!

Beside that, on the good feedback, the dev are able to use the product correctly, so all good for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First, the user interface. It is a bit messy, and the authentication part was weird until very recently.

Second, the monitoring is inexistant. It means you need to implement your own logic to monitor whether or not your job are running properly. There is nothing out of the box. This is a big issue when it comes to production jobs.

Third the user management: you cannot create groups of users and assign a group to a workspace. It's very old-fashion user management, so that when a new dev is hired, you have to add him manually to N workspaces. I'm not kidding...

Fourth: the price, at the beginning it's cheap, but the price goes crazy quickly for a not-so-much big setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Workflow and dependeny management for Enterprise level data lakes are well suited for Astronomer.

The product is more user friendly by supporting APIs, easy-to-build DAGs and graphical user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite being an important tool, Astronomer still has room for improvement. We frequently experience realtime UI loading problems.

And aslo the documentation is adequate, adding more in-depth guides would be helpful, especially for advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way the Astronomer development environment can be prepared and used with a simple CLI, the tight integration with the cloud enviroments, the easy way to deploy, secure and manage both workspaces, deployments and users, makes it a great solution a already great product that is Airflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much really... perhaps some of the technical requirements (both of networrking and security) in the initial cluster deployment makes it "hard to sell" in a corporate environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best in class orchestration tool with the best in UI interface.

Astro taken the Big data to next level.latest feature provide DAG linage.having tons of library which makes the developer job much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost transparency need to enhanced and LOG tracking will also need some improvisation. POD errors are sometime headache. COSOMS library can have guided docs some places we are in lack of read me files,. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Love the timely updates, support whenever required.

The team is always available to help us whenever required, recently they were supporting us through the slack channel which they launched. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costing, if they can improve on costing that would be the best thing.

Any which would not consider Airflow would be only because of high cost, but still I feel compared to other product it's way better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.