Monte Carlo Data Observability Platform
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Monte Carlo Handles Simple and Complex Data Observability Needs with Relative Ease
What do you like best about the product?
Monte Carlo handles the complex data monitoring tasks and allows us to utilize our own SQL and business rules. We monitor our data by multiple segments and Monte Carlo makes that easy, alerting us when things go sideways. The Monte Carlo team also listens to us when we have ideas for improving the product (and our monitoring), and is constantly enhancing their product to meet customer needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to pick something I really dislike about Monte Carlo. We tend to use the anomalous detection more than hard/fast rules, and there are situations where we'd like a little more control over the acceptable ranges.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monte Carlo is allowing us to automate our data monitoring, which was previously done manually. This has allowed us to expand what we are able to monitor. It also has allowed us to look at additional aspects of the data that we couldn't do with a manual process.
Monte Carlo review 05-20-2025
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent connectors for analysis and monitoring.
Lineage is very good and readable.
Support is outstanding.
API documentation is generally good and the API explorer is nice.
Simple to set up monitors and add assets.
We are using Monte Carlo extensively already given its ease of use and ability to check for anomalies.
Lineage is very good and readable.
Support is outstanding.
API documentation is generally good and the API explorer is nice.
Simple to set up monitors and add assets.
We are using Monte Carlo extensively already given its ease of use and ability to check for anomalies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Adding descriptions to objects like monitors is basically missing. It would be helpful to have a title and description field vs. having a limited description field that acts as the title as well. It is messy and requires too much curation governance. Monitors and Assets should have this capability.
Also, the APIs are ok but doc should contain better examples for use.
Also, the APIs are ok but doc should contain better examples for use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to track out of range thresholds allows us to catch issues with data faster. We can resolve problems before they impact clients.
Catching Data Issues Before They Catch Us
What do you like best about the product?
Monte Carlo gives us proactive visibility into data issues before they impact downstream stakeholders. The automated monitoring across tables, columns, and freshness saves our team countless hours we used to spend manually checking data pipelines. The integration with tools like Slack and dbt makes it seamless to stay on top of data health without leaving our workflow
What do you dislike about the product?
While Monte Carlo is powerful, the UI can sometimes feel cluttered when navigating large numbers of monitors or incidents. Additionally, the alerting can occasionally be noisy until it’s fully tuned for our environment. More granular control over alert thresholds and grouping would make the experience even better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monte Carlo helps us catch data issues—like broken dbt models, delayed ingestions, or unexpected schema changes—before they impact business decisions. This has significantly reduced fire drills, improved trust in our data, and freed up our BI team to focus on delivering insights instead of troubleshooting pipelines.
Smart Data Observability and Quality
What do you like best about the product?
Our Team loves the out of the box monitors in Monte Carlo, they make time to value much shorter and allow the product to start adding value quickly while you work with the Monte Carlo team on more targeted monitoring capabilities. Really can't stress enough how responsive and helpful the support team is.
What do you dislike about the product?
We do see some issues with our monitors in Monte Carlo from time to time where we are using them in non-standard use cases, generally these show up as data not matching our expectations within the monitoring results but every time this has come up so far we have been able to get to the bottom of it with help from the support team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monte Carlo lets us know when our data is out of date or when there are unexpected updates/deletes in critical tables. It does these things out of the box letting us focus on more targeted quality checks.
Robust Monitoring Tool with Room for Alert Management
What do you like best about the product?
Monte Carlo provides a reliable, near real-time data observability layer that helps us catch pipeline issues before they affect stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
In metric monitors, we are unable to edit the SQL queries once the monitors are enabled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monte Carlo helps us proactively detect data quality issues such as missing data, schema changes, and failed jobs across critical pipelines.
Before Monte Carlo, identifying the root cause of broken reports or data discrepancies was reactive and time-consuming. Now, with automated monitoring and anomaly detection, we can quickly isolate and resolve issues, minimizing business impact and improving trust in our data.
It has significantly improved our team’s efficiency and data reliability across departments.
Before Monte Carlo, identifying the root cause of broken reports or data discrepancies was reactive and time-consuming. Now, with automated monitoring and anomaly detection, we can quickly isolate and resolve issues, minimizing business impact and improving trust in our data.
It has significantly improved our team’s efficiency and data reliability across departments.
MC's User Review
What do you like best about the product?
Table Lineage, Assests Monitoring, User Interface
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes thresholds were not captured as per the trend.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data qualities which helps to solve the problems before the business users reach us with that.
A Great Product for any Data Engineering Team
What do you like best about the product?
We've been using Monte Carlo for a couple of years now, and it's become an essential part of our data engineering toolkit. It delivered value almost immediately—helping us uncover data quality issues we didn't even know existed. Between the machine learning-driven anomaly detection, our custom domain-specific monitors, intuitive lineage and query history features, and excellent customer support, Monte Carlo plays a vital role in helping us meet our data quality goals.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monte Carlo moves quickly, and while we appreciate the pace of innovation, early on it sometimes felt like there was too much change all at once. Additionally, the platform has a wide range of features—which is a strength—but it can occasionally be challenging to remember where to find some of the more nuanced settings or controls.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monte Carlo allows us to keep our data quality high and offers great visibility into our lineage and data usage.
Great tool
What do you like best about the product?
Anomaly monitors: Ships with default detectors for freshness, volume, schema, and distribution shifts—and alerts you the moment something goes off-norm.
Asset management: lineage, usage, etc.
Asset management: lineage, usage, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
the lineage maps hide the underlying SQL, forcing you to switch to your repo to see the actual logic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unintended actions
lags
discovery
lags
discovery
I use it as a BI developer to monitor our DWH tables
What do you like best about the product?
Monte Carlo's intuitive and user-friendly interface makes complex data observability tasks straightforward.
Its proactive alerting helps identify and resolve data issues quickly, saving significant debugging time.
The ability to visualize data lineage and dependencies clearly enhances understanding and communication within teams.
Its proactive alerting helps identify and resolve data issues quickly, saving significant debugging time.
The ability to visualize data lineage and dependencies clearly enhances understanding and communication within teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes alerts can become noisy, leading to occasional alert fatigue.
Customization options could be expanded to better tailor the observability setup to specific team workflows or unique data environments.
Customization options could be expanded to better tailor the observability setup to specific team workflows or unique data environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Downtime and Quality Issues: Monte Carlo identifies anomalies and errors early, preventing data downtime.
Lack of Visibility into Data Pipelines: Provides comprehensive visibility into data lineage, improving understanding of data dependencies.
Delayed Incident Detection: Quickly alerts teams to issues, reducing the time between occurrence and detection.
Lack of Visibility into Data Pipelines: Provides comprehensive visibility into data lineage, improving understanding of data dependencies.
Delayed Incident Detection: Quickly alerts teams to issues, reducing the time between occurrence and detection.
Very good product
What do you like best about the product?
I was really impressed with how easy this product is to use. Right out of the box, setup was quick and straightforward with clear instructions. The interface is intuitive, and I didn’t need to spend time figuring out how it works—it just made sense. Even for someone who isn’t very tech-savvy, this product makes daily tasks simple and efficient. It’s clear that a lot of thought went into the user experience. Overall, if you’re looking for something that’s hassle-free and beginner-friendly, this is a great choice.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monte Carlo simulations often require a large number of iterations to produce accurate results, which can be very resource- and time-consuming, especially for complex models.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For our team, the biggest benefit is proactive monitoring. Instead of reacting to data issues after they've caused business disruption, we now catch them early. This reduces firefighting, saves analyst time, and builds trust with stakeholders by ensuring they’re always working with accurate, up-to-date data. Monte Carlo also improves collaboration between data engineering and BI teams by clearly showing where issues originate and how they affect downstream assets. Ultimately, it helps us deliver more reliable insights, faster.
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