Meltano

Meltano is an open source DataOps platform that brings together open source tools and technologies for the data lifecycle. Open source integrations include the Singer standard for data integration and its library of over 200 connectors, dbt for transformation, Airflow for orchestration, and soon Superset for visualization. Meltano simplifies configuration, deployment, and monitoring.

Meltano was founded inside GitLab in 2018 to serve the GitLab Data Team. Meltano started as an open source tool built for GitLab's data and analytics team.

In 2020, the project pivoted to focus on open source data integration (ELT).

In 2021, after 3 years of being a GitLab incubator project, Meltano spun out of GitLab and raised a seed funding round.

The name Meltano is an initialism of the different parts of the data lifecycle - Model, Extract, Load, Transform, Analyze, Notebook, Orchestrate.