Case Study: Janus Henderson Investors achieves 95% faster MTTR with Astronomer’s Astro and Otto

Janus Henderson Investors cuts MTTR by 95% with Astronomer

Janus Henderson Investors, a global asset manager, faced significant operational risk as their data engineering team struggled to meet a strict pre-market-open deadline to manually diagnose and fix overnight Airflow pipeline failures. This challenge was compounded by tribal knowledge gaps, legacy orchestration systems, and a lack of centralized Airflow ownership. They partnered with vendor Astronomer, Inc. and adopted their managed service, Astro, to address these infrastructure challenges.

Using Astronomer's AI agent, Otto, integrated with their internal Lighthouse system, JHI implemented an autonomous remediation solution. This system automatically triages failures, diagnoses root causes, and routes them for resolution, often without human intervention. The results included a 95% faster mean time to recovery (MTTR), a 20% reduction in total cost of ownership, and the ability for the team to shift from morning firefighting to reviewing automated fixes.

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