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Astro by Astronomer Overview

What is Astro by Astronomer?

For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, the modern data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.

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Astronomer is a data engineering platform designed to collect, process and unifiy enterprise data, so users can get straight to analytics, data science and insights.


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Astronomer is a data orchestration platform that specializes in helping organizations manage and optimize their data workflows. By leveraging Apache Airflow, Astronomer provides tools for building, scheduling, and monitoring complex data pipelines, enabling teams to automate their data workflows efficiently. The platform offers features such as a managed Airflow service, collaborative tools, and robust monitoring capabilities, aimed at enhancing data engineering productivity and streamlining data operations. For more information, visit their website at [astronomer.io](https://www.astronomer.io/).


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Nazli M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great product and collaboration"
The Astro by Astronomer is a well-engineered product with the flexibility to use The talent at Astronomer makes the process as smooth as possible ...
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5.0 out of 5
"Data Scientist using Astronomer for custom ETLs and ML"
I like that it is flexible, well documented, has good support. Its UI is pleasing too. It's fast, allows to schedule lots differents jobs by nature...
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"Excelent Airflow as a Service Platform"
With Astronomer we don't need to worry about the infrastructure, everything is abstracted to us, we just need to click a few times to implement a n...
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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

It's Simplicity makes it very fun to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Well, from my experience, I find that the documentation could be more comprehensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Astro helps streamline data pipeline deployment and management, saving time and reducing complexity. This benefits me by making it easier to handle data workflows efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Our team already had some experience using Airflow but we had managed it completely ourselves. Wanting to avoid some of the pain points there, we were looking for a fully managed service. We found Airflow to solve our problems without us having to reinvent the wheel. We also found the onboarding process relatively smooth and Astro offered significant resources to get us started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

We didn't find anything that we disliked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main one is fully managed Airflow of course. Another thing we appreciate is access to the academy tutorials which allow others in the company to get up to speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

It has aided in building infrastructure that supports CI/CD, environment management, and it's significantly increased the rate at which we can develop, test, and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and business insight at our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Some of the functionality in my local Apache Airflow instance is not available in the managed Apache Airflow instances in Astronomer. If they were consistent in functionality, we wouldn't run into environment issues when deploying dags to Astro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's allowing our business to utilize the benefits of a data orchestration tool such as Apache Airflow without the headache and operational overhead of hosting Apache Airflow in a cloud platform ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

I like the ease of spinning up new deployments, as well as being able to see DAG run stats and Worker CPU/Memory usage in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

I would prefer if Worker CPU/Memory could be more granular so a specific process can be identified in the case of high CPU/Memory usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives us a singular interface through which we can access all of our Airflow deployments.That allows us to more easily direct users to the correct deployments, and also to identify which deployments may be having issues or need updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Detailed dash, great permission allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

A bit hard to find the link to airflow. the link button is a bit small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting airflow, user permission control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Ability to seemlessly connect to Airflow jobs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Nothing actually. Everything seems to work quite well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Astronomer makes monitroing and running airflow jobs quite easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Setup and deployment of Astronomer was easy, and it gets out of the way to make our Airflow environment simple to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

A few things are hidden behind the CLI tool, and require using hidden features to, for example, mount volumes when spinning up the containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

MWAA was hanging on "queued" a lot, which would silently cause our pipeline to fail. We need a more reliable Airflow deployment, and we were able to get that in Astronomer after some tweaking. It also makes the dev process a lot easier, since mwaa-local-runner is kind of a pain to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

The Astronomer customer success team was extremely helpful throughout the onboarding process and was always available to help answer questions. Astronomer as a product has made our hosting of Airflow smooth and especially simplified local developer experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Astro still has room for improvement in the IAC (infrastructure-as-code) space. Being able to do things like edit user access through code would be helpful, as well as more granular permission-based user controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Astro does a great job of abstracting away a lot of the headache and ops around setting up Airflow deployments. They make spinning up new instances as well as monitoring existing instances very straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Built on top of popular open source with timely update of new release Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

Infra customization in which related to stuff we can customize on EKS cluster (we are using AWS for Astro Plan deployment) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide a solid infra where save us time to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer?

Astronomer makes Airflow deployments easy, so we don't spend time reinventing the wheel and doing infrastructure/admin tasks. We can focus on just our particular use cases and ignore the rest! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer?

The billing model - since we're charged per task, I find myself writing DAGs in a way to minimize tasks, when multiple tasks might make the job easier to observe/troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business problem Astro solves is a managed Airflow deployment. We had tried a managed Airflow deployment from a major cloud provider and it had many glaring issues that weren't workable in a collaborative, production setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.