Estuary

What do you like best about the product?

Low-maintenance, solid availability for syncing data from disparate data sources.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some limited observability - would be nice to see more detailed logs, and have more insight/direct queryability into the individual data collections. Also the BYOC model is a bit annoying, would be nice to be able to use our existing cloud VPC.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company has a LOT of different data stored in very different places, so this is helping us get it all into one.

What do you like best about the product?

Switching our data pipelines from Fivetran to Estuary was one of the best infrastructure decisions we’ve made. It drastically lowered our monthly bill while also giving us true real-time streaming capabilities. Migrating to Estuary immediately stabilized our spend with a far more predictable, volume-based model.

Moving away from delayed batch syncs to continuous, low-latency streaming completely upgraded our data freshness, letting operational data flow virtually instantly. Estuary also gives us the flexibility to customize schemas and handle in-flight transformations directly within the pipeline, which has helped us save on downstream compute costs.

While the initial setup and schema mapping required deliberate effort, day-to-day management has been remarkably smooth and genuinely “set-and-forget.” Ultimately, Estuary delivered the blend of real-time performance, developer control, and budget relief we needed as we scaled.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I don’t like about Estuary is the UI. At times it isn’t very intuitive. For instance, when I’m backfilling records, the progress details aren’t very clear and are mostly shown as a percentage, which doesn’t always help me understand what’s actually happening. The logs are also pretty noisy and hard to follow, especially when I’m troubleshooting. Since I’ve had to work through capture failures, binlog position changes, and backfills during our migration, clearer progress indicators and more structured, easier-to-scan logs would make the overall experience much better.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Estuary has been highly effective in supporting our cost-reduction strategy while still delivering a robust, reliable, high-quality data ingestion service. Migrating from Fivetran to Estuary helped us significantly reduce our data pipeline costs without sacrificing reliability or performance.

Data ingestion and loading have been largely seamless, and the platform has handled our production workloads well. We’ve also found the Slack support team responsive and helpful, especially when troubleshooting issues related to captures, backfills, binlog positions, and migrations. The AI-powered support through Kapa.ai has been useful as well, letting us quickly find answers and navigate the documentation.

Overall, Estuary strikes a strong balance between cost efficiency, reliability, performance, and developer support, and it has become a valuable part of our modern data stack.

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Estuary is a key element within our data stack, making data ingestion from all of our Postgres data sources and Salesforce reliable. It's easy to use, and I appreciate the strong communication when something is broken. Their support is very quick to help us, and it's nice knowing there's a part of our stack we don't have to worry about. Estuary just works, allowing us to focus on other high-priority tasks. I also found the initial setup of Estuary to be very easy. Support is readily available if we have questions, which is really helpful. The reliability of Estuary makes everything a lot easier.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes I find it hard when we want to add a new data source or a connector because it's like $200 per connector, which has made us purposely not use Estuary at times. I wish there was a way to onboard a source with pricing charged per active row instead, so we could use it without having to think about the cost.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Estuary reliably ingests data from Postgres and Salesforce, simplifying our workflow. Its ease of use and strong support mean we focus on priorities without worry. It's a key part of our data stack, making us trust that it just works, saving time and effort.

What do you like best about the product?

Support actually has been more than outstanding, many hours spent talking with the estuary guys.

What do you dislike about the product?

As noted in the review no issues since that first outage

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy deata ingestion

What do you like best about the product?

The reliability of the platform and the responsiveness of support.

What do you dislike about the product?

Creating templates for transformations. I would prefer an easier and quicker GUI based approach.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are moving real time data from Azure SQL to Snowflake. This has avoided us having to either find an open source solution or creating our own and maintaining it due to costs.