Developer experience is great - docs are straightforward and the Slack community is helpful and responsive, even if it is smaller than the other more established orchestrator communities. Coming from Airflow, I always wondered if setting up an orchestration framework was always so complicated - but my experience with Prefect has been extremely smooth. I only wish that all Airflow users would make the switch to Prefect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would be great if Prefect had more connectors, and a larger community - but I think this is only a matter of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect offers simplicity for orchestrating all our scripts.

Deployment are easy and many connectors such as GCP secret help us manage the security of our scrip and platform.

Constant updates on the UI is really appreciated as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It may lack some tutorial here and there.

Community is great but maybe a bit too expert.

It should maybe be a bit more easy for beginners or develop some help for each cloud provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to implement and excellent UI to control flows & deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really an issue anymore but the used to develop so rapidly that maintaining Prefect deployments was a bit pain. Keep it up and don't change base setup too often.

Currently missing: agent status alarms, more automation tasks (eg. if this then that) and if a flow jams then the agent jams/drops which is far from ideal - would need a Linux like run-one (eg. */20 * * * * * run-one python /script/to/run/awesome.py) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While modernizing our data platform, we went from running 0 jobs on Prefect to more than 4 millions jobs a year, all while keeping our data engineering team at the same size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Growing the number of developers licenses in Prefect and segregating projects with fine-grained access control can be either expensive or impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coming from airflow background, Prefect is very lightweight and easy to start up and test things locally. UI is nice and intuitive but can be a bit buggy at times. Community is pretty active and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some parts of documentation are quite lacking especially the deployments section. There are only a very few examples given and primarily centered around docker and mac/linux machines.

Had difficulties setting up deployment with Prefect using windows machines and without containers. Got little to no help through documentation and community in general. But some prefect community engineers came through and helped out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to set up your first pipelines.

- Very code-centric. Making tasks feels more natural than other orchestrators.

- Easy to troubleshoot/debug.

- The automation feature on prefect cloud is great for managing notifications.

- Plenty of documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- I'm not a fan of the deployment model. may be my fault but having the same pipeline for multiple environments (dev/prod) feels hacky.

- The flow UI can be confusing especially when writing a true DAG.

- Some examples on the documentation don't actually work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect has been integral to our company's data flows and has allowed for SO much more visibility of what is happening with our data pipelines! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting the agents and workers set up and working reliably was tricky at first, and not knowing the best practices for running workers made it difficult to know where to start, but after being pointed to the appropriate docs in the Prefect slack I was able to get things in a good place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Prefect community is extremely helpful. Almost every problem our team has experienced which we could not resolve ourselves, we have sorted out with the help of the community members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some more examples in the Prefect documentation would help significantly, but this is not an easy problem to resolve, as with consistent updates and improvements, it is a big challenge to keep those examples up to date and correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's quite easy to learn, especially if you have previous experience with a scheduling tool like Airflow. The documentation is well written. Even without prior Prefect experience you are able to understand high level what the code is doing. This makes it possible for fellow developers to quickly understand how the scheduling works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my experience Airflow is still the default tool. This makes it a bit more difficult to convince other people to use it in a new project.

A relative young tool that is updated regularly. A good thing but sometimes these updates break backwards compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is very thorough, and when I need to dive deeper I can look at the source code because it is open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I don't know an advanced feature exists until I see it is updated in the release notes or I stumble upon it in the source code or UI. It is likely a tough balance to avoid overwhelmign new users but more examples, tutorials, and hints to use advanced features could be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.