Fivetran Reviews & Product Details

I use Fivetran mainly for managing data ingestion from SaaS systems into our warehouses like Snowflake. The system's main value is its speed and reliability, which allows me to avoid spending engineering time on building and maintaining custom connectors for systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, and Intercom. This leads to a stable pipeline with much less overhead, enabling my data team to focus more on modeling, analytics, and business use cases rather than debugging jobs and failures. The initial setup of Fivetran was very easy, fast, and intuitive, with a user-friendly UI and dashboard that allows understanding of consumption and the choice to sync specific tables. Fivetran is intuitive, flexible, and easy to use, which makes me very satisfied with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the biggest issue is the cost. It's kinda convenient, but it can get very expensive as usage scales. If you have many connectors or high data volume, it's great for speed but not always the most cost-efficient option for the long term. There are also some losses of flexibility compared to building the data pipeline on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We switched to Fivetran in order to stop maintaining our own ad-hoc connectors, which was brittle and time consuming. Fivetran definitely helps with hiding the complexities of connectors, retries, mapping of fields, etc. It makes it painless to add new connectors, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For a product aimed at reducing complexity, we still experience regular problems (once or twice a month) with connectors requiring manual intervention. Also, observability is not straightforward: there used to be a log which could be accessed from the UI, which was then moved to a destination that can be queried with SQL; while the latter is more flexible, for quick checking of problems the UI-accessible log was better. Furthermore, the destination-as-log can be impacted by outages, resulting in situations where you are blind to what the actual problem was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sampling data helps me prepare Press releases, case studies, data-driven stories, study patterns etc. It gives me insight into cultural shifts happening geographically. When I was working for a sustainability site, Census helped me find information about funding, allocation, and more. It is also a very reliable benchmark source for studies and surveys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes data can be outdated. Census data is collected every 5 or 10 years so one might question if the data is even reliable or not. I cannot think of anything that I dislike about Census. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about Fivetran is the wide range of connectors with almost every data ingestion service and the ease of use. Automated schema handling and incremental syncs make it particularly strong for scaling ingestion across many systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have occasionally seen unexpected full reloads, which can be disruptive for high volume tables. MAR (Monthly Active Rows) pricing also lacks transparency and can quickly escalate for frequently updated datasets. In some cases, the fully managed nature of the platform limits deeper customisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that it keeps our data in sync and up-to-date as often as we need it and it's very reliable and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That I have to pay for it, but the price is reasonable considering the value it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Fivetran requires low maintenance and ensures data integrity and recovery with minimal custom scripting. I appreciate how it abstracts much of the 'EL' work, letting us focus more on delivering solutions. It saves us time from fiddling with extract and load processes, so we can concentrate on solving problems for our stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More detailed errors and log history would be ideal. Clearer root cause rather than generic error messages would help us debug or triage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can connect it directly with my software and get the tables in my data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some connectors are not yet available - like centric plm, wair tool. Shipmonk was not there but they just added now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Fivetran's easy-to-navigate UI and the variety of connectors it offers. It's easy to manage a bunch of different connectors and data sources all in one place. I also appreciate that Fivetran provides an easy low-code ETL solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we get obscure or silent failures that require reaching out to Fivetran support. It's hard to tell which side the error is coming from (Fivetran or the system it's syncing from). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fivetran just launched a new AI connector feature which i find very useful where can create a connection if that is not natively available. Apart from that it is very reliable and efficient tool for data repliaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing major as of now. I’ve just noticed that a few niche tools aren’t available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy connectors; really satisfied with the setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I get far too many email updates about services I don’t use, and it’s becoming annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.