Astronomer on OpenLineage and Airflow for pipeline lineage

The extract defines data lineage as tracking and visualizing data from its origin to downstream consumption. It states lineage helps with understanding sources, troubleshooting job failures, managing PII, and meeting regulations. Airflow is cast as a one-stop orchestrator suited to integrating lineage across an organization’s pipelines.

Data and compliance teams need a coherent view of movement and interactions as ecosystems grow more complex. The guide promises core lineage concepts and how lineage works with Airflow, and notes Astro Observe for extracting and visualizing lineage, plus webinars on observability and OpenLineage.

Lineage metadata is shared structure about datasets and jobs. When orchestration emits interoperable lineage, catalogs, agents, and governance controls can read the same graph of meaning instead of reconstructing private traces.