# What is Prefect used for?

What is Prefect used for?

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- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Prefect is a workflow orchestration tool empowering developers to build, observe, and react to data pipelines. With Prefect, control and observe: 1. What code runs, and the data it handles, 2. When it runs, scheduled or triggered by an event, 3. Where it runs, and the systems it talks to.

With Prefect, users get observability across their data stack, gain confidence that their workflows are running and meeting their expectations, and the ability to recover quickly when things go wrong.

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: over 2 years ago
- Author title: Head of Growth




## Related Product
[Prefect](https://www.g2.com/products/prefect/reviews)

## Related Category
[Workload Automation](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation)

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