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Overview

Product Information on Unravel

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Unravel?

Unravel is a software designed to optimize, monitor, and manage data operations across modern data stack environments, including platforms such as Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, and Snowflake. The software provides features such as application performance monitoring, resource usage analytics, automated troubleshooting, and predictive insights into data pipeline behavior. Unravel enables identification of inefficiencies and bottlenecks within data workflows and offers recommendations for tuning and cost management. The software addresses business problems related to resource utilization, performance optimization, and ensuring reliable execution of data workloads in hybrid, multicloud, or on-premises environments.

Unravel Pricing

Unravel software uses a subscription-based pricing model, with charges typically based on the number of nodes or cloud data pipelines managed. The pricing structure may vary depending on deployment type, such as cloud or on-premises environments, and can include tiered service levels based on usage and features. Free trials and custom enterprise pricing options are commonly offered.

Overall experience with Unravel

Data Analyst
50M - 250M USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“AI-Driven Features Bridge Data Engineering and Finance With Prescriptive Cost Solutions”

5.0
Apr 3, 2026
This has been a massive help for us, saving us a lot of time! It's a big tool that connects and fills any gap between our data engineers and our finance department.
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Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Unravel provides a data observability platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of data teams. Its main focus is on intelligently optimizing, automatic troubleshooting, and cost control of data applications and pipelines. The platform is compatible with modern data stacks and the company's technology can analyze, capture, and correlate detailed insights that are crucial to maximizing business value from data. Unravel's capabilities also extend to hybrid and multi-cloud functionalities across all major cloud providers. It is compatible with various modern data stack systems like Databricks, Amazon EMR, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake. The company has its main office located in Palo Alto, California, along with other offices globally.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2016
Head office location
Palo Alto, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://www.unraveldata.com

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Unravel Likes & Dislikes

Like

The automated options are wonderful, it doesn't just tell you what's being inefficient, it gives you prescriptive, AI driven options on exactly how to fix your compute instances to save money and time without missing our service level agreement's

Like

The team and how attentive they are. Besides that how easy the application is to install thanks to the Unravel teams assistance. Unravel UI is easy to navigate and understand that makes everything smoother.

Like

The product helps us monitor and optimize all our Big Data system metrics and data flows. The Unravel product is rapidly evolving to enhance their sensor integration to ensure all relevant system metrics are collected, analyzed and exposed for optimal tuning of the system and data flows.

Dislike

The tool can be a little bit overwhelming when you start using it. This is because of the different views, metrics and options.

Dislike

I don't have any dislikes at the moment, as everything has been more than positive.

Dislike

There is *nothing* to dislike about the Unravel product and the team that supports it.

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  • Data Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    AI-Driven Features Bridge Data Engineering and Finance With Prescriptive Cost Solutions

    5.0
    Apr 3, 2026
    This has been a massive help for us, saving us a lot of time! It's a big tool that connects and fills any gap between our data engineers and our finance department.
  • DevOps Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Unravel

    5.0
    Apr 7, 2021
    Experience has been more than phenomenal. Unravel team has assisted us with all our request and on a timely manner. It's been a pleasure working with their team. Unravel application has helped gather valuable information about our cluster and it has helped identified issues on the same and even how we can improve the way we run queries on the clusters.
  • Director, Data Engineering
    10B+ USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    Outstanding product capabilities and support team

    5.0
    Mar 9, 2021
    The Unravel team and product meet and oftentimes exceed our needs and expectations. The Unravel product team is very solicitous of our inputs to improve their product and our usage experience and are constantly looking for opportunities to engage with us to ensure that we are aware of and use all existing capabilities.
  • Engineering Manager, Software Developmen
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Shows Promise, Looking forward to see cross data platforms on Observability

    4.0
    Feb 1, 2021
    Product and portfolio show a lot of promise in the future. The landscape of the Data ecosystem is very wide and APMs like these have a great promise
  • Big Data Administrator (Contractor)
    1B-10B USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    A great monitoring tool that keeps on giving!

    5.0
    Jan 29, 2021
    This is a really good monitoring tool, that's easy to use, easy to install & easy to manage. The support from the vendor is great too!
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.6

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4.9

Product Capabilities

4.5