It Pays to be Picky: Leveraging Key Insights with Airflow and Astro

The text discusses the importance of being selective when setting up an observability solution using Airflow and Astro. It highlights four key insights to consider focusing on: data freshness, on-time delivery, data dependencies tracking, and data quality. The author introduces Astro Observe, a new product that enables users to leverage these observability insights with control over the assets they monitor, the insights they receive, and who has access to what. Astro Observe uses Data Products to allow users to create customized, focused views of metadata emitted by Airflow. The text also provides an overview of how Astro Observe can be used for monitoring data freshness, on-time delivery, data dependencies tracking, and data quality.