Jayesh T.
JT
Jayesh T.
QA automation engineer
Financial Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good to handle daily automation"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

Good product to automate daily regression work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

Sometimes it fails to automate daily regression work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
CC
Verified User in Consulting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best orchestration Tool"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

The connectivity, scheduling options , easier to operate the UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

Nothing much. Very much user friendly to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DK
Digamber K.
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Apache Airflow : A must learn orchestration tool for data geeks."
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

Airflow provides numerous cross-platform integration with almost all the required technologies. It has vast number of features while creating DAG's. I really loved the ideas of new release wrt object storage, easily managable platform, new operators like FTP, FTPs and custom operators. UI is bit clumsy but altogether airflow is very easy to use and implement ETL pipelines. I have been using Airflow for last 1 year and the improvement they show is very promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

UI is clumsy. In order to see the task in UI I have to go back to all dags when we retrigger 2nd time. It can be better but it compensates with the feature it has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit G.
SG
Sumit G.
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Data Pipeline Orchestration tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

- Integration

- Scalability

- Performance

- Data Pipeline Management

- Data Pipeline Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

- Alert System

- Easy Installation

- Use more than 5 hours in a day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

- Airflow UI/ User Experience

- Pipeline Execution grid view

- Dag Graph Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashutosh R.
AR
Ashutosh R.
Data Engineer III
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Apache Airflow"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

The best thing about Apache Airflow is that it provides integration with various services like big query , AWS , GCP etc.Plus it is available as as service in all cloud provides which provides seamless experience.The User Experience is perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

Sometimes we face problem when there are two many task in a single airflow instance which requires more number of executors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Suitable for setting up ETLs and Cron Jobs Quickly and Easily"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

I like how simple it is to setup and get started with Apache Airflow. As it is backed by Python as a programming language ETLs and other kind of Jobs are very easy and quick to code and deploy. It's tedious otherwise to setup these things and takes much experience. But with Apache Airflow one can spin up new jobs quickly with tools that help with troubleshooting and fast debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

One thing that I would love Apache Airflow to have would be some improvements to scale the ETLs and provide tools that can help with smooth api integration in an enterprise level ecosystem. With increasing business requirements its kind of get tricky to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NG
Neeraj G.
DotNet Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Airflow Review"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

It has a lot of integrations with n number of platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

There should be more work done on user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tong Yi C.
TC
Tong Yi C.
Senior Data Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"automate reporting and data pulls"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

being able to use python to create workflows that integrate with our reports is so core to many of our processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

errors and bug fixes are still manual and does take a while to troubleshoot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing for daily tasks"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

Airflow is the most intuitive interface for setting up daily workflow jobs that I've come across. The API's are mostly easy to learn/use and it's all I love that it's all in Python. There are a few people on my team who are not trained programmers but they have figured out how to create simple daily jobs. The web interface is can be a bit obtuse but it gets the job done. Using the workflow visualizer makes debugging complex jobs much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

I wish it were easier to set up jobs that can be manually triggered. It can technically be done but the interface is clunky and lacks some basic quality-of-life features.

The only complaint I have with the actual coding is that Jinja is hard to learn and debugging it can be a nightmare. That being said, if you stay within the straight-forward use cases, you shouldn't have any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raghwendra S.
RS
Raghwendra S.
SDE 4
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"best orchestrator in the market , with a huge community and active developments"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Airflow?

It support , operators for almost every data engineering tool / framework. Highly scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Airflow?

There is plenty of options for observability in airflow .

If some more community grafana dashboards or best practices are provided will help even further Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.