Elementary Cloud
Ideal for teams monitoring mission-critical data pipelines, requiring guaranteed uptime and reliability, short-time-to-value, advanced features, collaboration, and professional support. The solution is secure by design, and requires no access to your data from cloud.Elementary Community
An open-source CLI tool you can deploy and orchestrate to send Slack alerts and self-host the Elementary report. It is best for data and analytics engineers that require basic observability capabilities or for evaluating features without vendor approval.Features comparison
| Community (OSS) | Elmentary Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Data monitoring and detection | ||
| Automated freshness, volume and schema monitors | ❌ | ✅ |
| In-pipeline data tests (via dbt) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Data anomaly detection | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom SQL tests | ✅ | ✅ |
| Jobs performance and run results | ✅ | ✅ |
| Monitored data sets | dbt only | All tables |
| Root cause and impact analysis | ||
| Table-level lineage | ✅ | ✅ |
| Column-level lineage | ❌ | ✅ |
| Lineage to BI tools | ❌ | ✅ |
| Coverage and configuration | ||
| Configuration as code (dbt YAML) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add tests from UI | ❌ | ✅ |
| 🚧 Auto-tune configurations for improved accuracy | ❌ | ✅ |
| 🚧 Automated test recommendations | ❌ | ✅ |
| Communication and collaboration | ||
| Slack and MS Teams alerts | ✅ | ✅ |
| Alert distribution rules, multiple destinations, custom formats | ❌ | ✅ |
| Additional alert destinations: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Webhook | ❌ | ✅ |
| Alert actions | ❌ | ✅ |
| Data catalog | ❌ | ✅ |
| Deployment, security and service | ||
| Deployment | Self hosted, CLI | Cloud service |
| Multiple environments and data warehouses | ❌ | ✅ |
| Secure by design - Elementary has no access to raw data | ❌ | ✅ |
| Managed service - 99.9% uptime, no maintenance | ❌ | ✅ |
| Social login with Google | ❌ | ✅ |
| SSO using OKTA / OneLogin / AD | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom deployment options | ❌ | ✅ |
| Role based access control | ❌ | ✅ |
| Support SLA | Community support | 24 hours SLA |