Astronomer
Managed Apache Airflow platform for orchestrating data pipelines
About Astronomer
Astronomer develops Astro, a managed service for Apache Airflow, the open source workflow orchestrator, and employs many of the project maintainers. It adds deployment, monitoring and observability features for data and ML pipelines. Customers are data engineering teams in mid-size and large organizations.
Common use cases
- ETL and ELT orchestration
- ML pipeline scheduling
- Data product delivery
- Workflow modernization
Products and services
Astro
Managed Apache Airflow service with deployment and monitoring.
Astro Observe
Observability for data pipelines and data products.
Astro CLI
Open source command line for local Airflow development.
Astronomer Software
Self-hosted Airflow distribution.
Key features
- Managed Airflow
- Pipeline observability
- CI/CD for DAGs
- Multi-cloud deployment
- Role-based access
- Lineage tracking
Integrations
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- dbt
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
Astronomer alternatives
FAQs
Is Airflow open source?
Yes. Apache Airflow is open source and Astronomer builds a managed commercial platform around it.
Where does it run?
On AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with options for self-hosting.
Who is it for?
Data engineering teams that need production orchestration of pipelines.

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