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dagster

by dagster-io

Dagster is a Python platform for building, running and monitoring data pipelines. It tracks the data assets each pipeline produces, so teams can see what ran, what failed and what depends on what.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
16.4k +4 a day
Licence
Apache-2.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Technical
Language
Python
Age
3108 days

What you can do with it

  • Define data pipelines in Python and run them on a schedule
  • Monitor pipeline runs and track the data assets they produce
  • Orchestrate ETL and machine learning workflows in one place

Make money with it

A freelancer with Python skills could set up and maintain data pipelines and reporting for small businesses as a paid service.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Automate nightly reporting by pulling sales and marketing data into one database
  • Replace manual spreadsheet updates with scheduled, monitored data jobs

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

No README was provided, but it is a Python project normally installed with pip and run as a local web interface or deployed to a server.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • No README was available to confirm setup details
  • Needs Python and data engineering knowledge
  • Running it in production needs a server or paid hosted option

Checked 03 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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