Astro has introduced a new alerting feature designed to enhance the monitoring and management of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) within its platform, offering proactive notifications for DAG run failures and task duration breaches. Built on OpenLineage, this tool allows users to define alerts that integrate seamlessly with popular communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty, ensuring real-time updates when issues arise. Unlike open-source Airflow, Astro's alerting capabilities centralize alert channels and trigger task duration alerts as soon as the specified time limit is breached, rather than at task completion. Users can easily set up alerts through the Astro UI, and future enhancements are planned to extend alerting capabilities using OpenLineage data at the dataset level. This feature aims to reduce downtime and improve data observability by allowing immediate responses to potential problems, and Astro offers a free trial to explore these capabilities further.