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Stable Platform with good service
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that they have come a long way from being a startup supporting opensource airflow to becoming an enterprise focusing on what their customers want. They have a history of feature rich development to provide best cutomer support. Their dev and production enviornment deployment via CI/CD provide an ease of implementation and integration of Airflow for their customers. I find the system easy to use that gives me confidence. They had their ups and downs as an orgination but they have come a long way from there. I am happy to say Fanduel 's decion to use Astronomer has proven to be a good success.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no major problems in using Astro but some quirks here and there. Overall I like the way they are building the product and support Airflow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They are providing a stable platform on Kubernetes to run our big workload orchestration of around thousand data piplines and they are doing a very good job.
If you have the capital, it's the best of the bunch
What do you like best about the product?
Of the three best known managed Airflow options (MWAA, Cloud Composer, Astronomer), I think Astronomer is the most streamlined and easy-to-use. The Docker image/runtime is well thought out, and the hybrid managed Dataplane option has sensible ways of doing things and removes the burden of maintaining the deployment. I love the Astro CLI and how easy it is to customize the base Airflow image they provide. The docs are good and they are closest to the actual core Airflow community.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricier than the other two, but IMO the extra features are well worth it. Charging by task run also requires care. Outside of pricing/cost though... it's great. I gave them a 9 instead of a 10 because of the cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workflow orchestration/data pipelines.
Smooth and Amazing
What do you like best about the product?
The customer support and reliability, also easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
They can maybe do the alerts more configurable in terms of the data to show in the alert.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro solves all the infrastructure support and maintenance, also any updates/patches are 100% managed by astro and they do it really well.
Great option for easy Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to implement and maintain. Setup is pretty quick and the painful parts of managing Airflow are removed. Deploying and upgrading are simple. Also very easy to get a local environment up and running, which is a big win. The Docker based deployments make it easy to test out version upgrading locally before deploying. Astro CLI is great for implementing a CI/CD process.
Customer service team has been great to work with - very responsive and quick to escalate to more technical team members as needed.
Overall a great option for easy Airflow deployment - I can mostly forget about the infrastrcuture and just focus on pipeline development.
Customer service team has been great to work with - very responsive and quick to escalate to more technical team members as needed.
Overall a great option for easy Airflow deployment - I can mostly forget about the infrastrcuture and just focus on pipeline development.
What do you dislike about the product?
Astronomer has rolled out a few new features and/or products over the past year or so that have looked great in the marketing material and demos, but have been less impressive under the hood. Cloud IDE being the latest. Great potential, just still a bit half baked and not worth encorporating on my current project (yet). Great to see Astro consistently working towards value adding features though.
Relatively high price - probably wouldn't be worth it for smaller use cases or companies.
Relatively high price - probably wouldn't be worth it for smaller use cases or companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing Airflow - relatively pain free via Astronomer. Great support from their team to helps with any issues - nice to be able to take advantage of their Airflow expertise and experience.
Overall improves Airflow ease of use - in comparison to self managed or other managed options.
Overall improves Airflow ease of use - in comparison to self managed or other managed options.
Best product for a startup
What do you like best about the product?
When working at a startup with limited resources, we don't have time to worry about self-managing Airflow. Astronomer enabled us to get started with Airflow very quickly without the hassel of setting it up ourselves or worrying about as much maintenance. The customer support is amazing. The field engineer assigned to us is very smart and proactive to make sure all of our requirements are met.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike. I've worked at companies where we self-hosted Airflow which was such a hassel. Astronomer makes everything so much easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-Don't have to worry about self-hosting
-Less time spent on maintenance
-Local development is so easy
-Deployment processes is very quick and efficient
-Very easy to update requirements
-Thorough documentation
-Less time spent on maintenance
-Local development is so easy
-Deployment processes is very quick and efficient
-Very easy to update requirements
-Thorough documentation
Best Way to take the pain out of Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
I've worked with Airflow for the last 6 year, both administering it myself and using managed services like AWS MWAA. In my opinion Astronomer is the only feasible managed service currently available for Airflow. It's the first managed service I've used that does not entail a surprising number of performance bugs even when used only as an orchestration engine (which generally deferable functionality has resolved), and the only approach I would recommend if you want to also use it as an execution engine in its own right. In our use case, our per deployment costs were cut in half relative to AWS MWAA. Additionally it greatly increases ease of use, so non-engineering teams can make use of it with minimal need for engineering staff once it's set up.
Additionally, customer service is excellent. Always a response time proportional to the level of severity, and even complex bug fixes (generally caused by underlying Airflow libraries, not Astronomer itself) that have popped up had tested fixes available within a few days. If you're using Airflow for a non-trivial, production workload and not managing the cluster yourself, I don't think there's any other way to go than Astronomer.
Additionally, customer service is excellent. Always a response time proportional to the level of severity, and even complex bug fixes (generally caused by underlying Airflow libraries, not Astronomer itself) that have popped up had tested fixes available within a few days. If you're using Airflow for a non-trivial, production workload and not managing the cluster yourself, I don't think there's any other way to go than Astronomer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Typical painpoints of using a managed service and the limited access that entails, particularly around the shared-compute cluster options and lack of CLI access to remote deployments. That they're serious about addressing with developing new features to ease these painpoints shows they take issues of access more seriously than most managed service providers (Airflow-based and beyond).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex orchestration of all data ingestion and processing at our company, which ingests data from numerous third party media entities and internally-owned web applications. Will also soon be used in orchestrating MLOps platform
Astronomer Powered Airflow
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro is solving the major pain point of managing the Airflow instance and allowing users to focus on the actual pipelines. This allowed us to go live in production for our data workload automation in a very short time. ~ 1 Month
Asro literally assists in data engineering work, making it easier and more productive.
What do you like best about the product?
It making it easier and more productive.
What do you dislike about the product?
User events should be more responsive, while we need a more interactive UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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.
Great tool for Cron Jobs and Job Automation
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud platform to help support the jobs that need to run at any cadence. Integrates well with all the platforms used like Databricks and cloud services
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup can be challenging on the internal cloud services
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running ML models and Data Engineering jobs at an automated frequency
It is very good but I struggle to test
What do you like best about the product?
I like the UI and that is able to give me a summary of what is happening in each of my airflow environments. I also like the documentation that gives a lot of examples of how to do stuff.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more detailed documentation as well as some best practices regarding testing, me and my team find it very easy to use the astronomer environment and write DAGs in Airflow but we struggle to write tests...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Astro helps us manage our Airflow environment that is responsible for automating various tasks related to call center, such as every morning running a workflow that is responsible for generating calling lists.
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