Elementary Data Reviews & Product Details

Most observability tools I've seen fall into two camps, either open source and really hard to use, or have total vendor lock in. Elementary straddles that line of being open source and built on top of your dbt stack, but is still very easy to set up and configure. The price point for elementary cloud is much more accessible for small startups to get started with data observability, which in my experience is walled off to enterprise-scale companies, despite often being needed in smaller company sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

if you don't like dbt or don't have dbt set up, there's nothing to work with here. I think the company is still young and more edge cases are still being worked out, but otherwise, pretty happy so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Simplicity

- Ease of use

- Dashboards Analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- No integration with Metabase

- Not Ai tool to docs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about elementary is:

- Easy to set it up, less than an hour

- Easy to understand, it works perfectly with dbt

- You can have a very clear high-level picture of the datasets (freshness, tests, runs)

- Slack community and support

- You can have daily alerts (based on your needs) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I don't like about Elementary Data, but it's not something that discourages me from using the tool, is the fact that after some major upgrades, some problems arose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smooth inegration with dbt, and great features like alerting, anomaly detection, observability report etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I only have positive experience so far with Elementary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elementary provides easy-to-setup and understand data quality and anomaly testing. I also really appreciate their Slack integration and daily reporting.

This simplifies the observing and reporting of our most vital data marts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Running entire column and table anomaly checks on wide tables could increase your dbt runs by a significant amount.

This is understandable, but users should know that thorough tests take time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most that I like from Elementary is:

- Easy to setup, just in a few minutes

- Easy to understand, the UI and the integration with DBT is very smoothy

- Provides a clear high level picture of the datasets and models which you are working

- Nice alerts integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Probably what I miss on the Elementary open version are some very useful features, such as the Catalog + the lineage at column level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really nice integration with dbt core. Great UI for visualising data tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Downside - No way to test sensitivity of anomaly detection tests if you have multiple anomaly detection tests on a model. I use the where condition to set up tests on individual events in my data models and unfortunately there is no current way for me to monitor if my Z score is sensitive enough/too sensitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to play plugin

- Integration to slack

- Ability to send slack summary and individual data alerts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- No modular APIs or customizations possible

- Ability to send alerts by threads for repeated failures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.