Overview

The dbt-native data observability solution for data & analytics engineers. Monitor your data pipelines in minutes. Available as self-hosted or cloud service with premium features. Elementary is the control plane for data and AI reliability. It unifies observability, quality, governance, and discovery, enabling teams to deliver trusted data at scale in the AI era. Engineers work in code, business users get AI-first validation and exploration. Trusted by teams at Elastic, RGA, Now Pensions, and other leading enterprises. The project has 2K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

Anomaly detection tests - Collect data quality metrics and detect anomalies, as native dbt tests.
Automated monitors - Out-of-the-box cloud monitors to detect freshness, volume and schema issues.
End-to-End Data Lineage - Enriched with the latest test results, for impact and root cause analysis of data issues. Elementary Cloud offers Column-Level-Lineage from ingestion to BI.
Data quality dashboard - Single interface for all your data monitoring and test results.
Models performance - Monitor models and jobs run results and performance over time.
Configuration-as-code - Elementary configuration is managed in your dbt code.
Alerts - Actionable alerts including custom channels and tagging of owners.
Data catalog - Explore your datasets information - descriptions, columns, datasets health, etc.
dbt artifacts uploader - Save metadata and run results as part of your dbt runs.
AI-Powered Data Tests & Unstructured Data Validations - Validate and monitor data using AI powered tests to validate both structured and unstructured data

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

ai integration, dashboard, encryption, metrics, tags.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

AI & Machine Learning

AI / LLM Integration

Search & Discovery

Tags / Labels

Analytics & Reporting

Dashboard
Metrics & KPIs

Security & Privacy

Encryption

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