What is this?
Redash is an open-source business intelligence platform: you connect data sources, explore and query them, visualize the results and share dashboards with your team. Thousands of organizations use it for data-driven decisions.
Redash is an open-source business intelligence platform: you connect data sources, explore and query them, visualize the results and share dashboards with your team. Thousands of organizations use it for data-driven decisions.Is it a hosted service I sign up for, or something my company runs itself?You run your own Redash instance — it's a self-hosted server you deploy on your infrastructure or cloud. Once it's up, everyone works with it entirely in the browser via a shareable URL.
You run your own Redash instance — it's a self-hosted server you deploy on your infrastructure or cloud. Once it's up, everyone works with it entirely in the browser via a shareable URL.How do I get an instance running?Follow the Getting Started guide to set up a Redash instance — the project offers ready-made AWS and GCE images, and the repository ships Docker files for a self-hosted deployment.
Follow the Getting Started guide to set up a Redash instance — the project offers ready-made AWS and GCE images, and the repository ships Docker files for a self-hosted deployment.Which data sources can I connect it to?More than 35 SQL and NoSQL sources are built in: PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Google Analytics, Excel, CSV, JSON and many others. New sources can be added through an extensible data source API.
More than 35 SQL and NoSQL sources are built in: PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Google Analytics, Excel, CSV, JSON and many others. New sources can be added through an extensible data source API.Do I need to know SQL to get value out of it?Writing queries does require SQL or NoSQL skills, but consuming results doesn't: SQL users explore and share the data, and the rest of the organization works from their visualizations and dashboards.
Writing queries does require SQL or NoSQL skills, but consuming results doesn't: SQL users explore and share the data, and the rest of the organization works from their visualizations and dashboards.Will my dashboards stay up to date on their own?Yes. You can schedule queries to refresh at intervals you define, and set alerts that notify you instantly when data meets a condition you specify.
Yes. You can schedule queries to refresh at intervals you define, and set alerts that notify you instantly when data meets a condition you specify.Can I automate Redash instead of clicking through the UI?Yes — everything that can be done in the UI is also exposed through a REST API, so queries, dashboards and alerts can be managed programmatically.
Yes — everything that can be done in the UI is also exposed through a REST API, so queries, dashboards and alerts can be managed programmatically.My database isn't in the supported list — am I out of luck?Probably not. Beyond the 35+ built-in sources there's an extensible data source API for adding connectors, and Redash can also query generic CSV, JSON, Google Spreadsheets, Python and shell script output.
Probably not. Beyond the 35+ built-in sources there's an extensible data source API for adding connectors, and Redash can also query generic CSV, JSON, Google Spreadsheets, Python and shell script output.Is Redash free to use?Yes — the open-source project is licensed BSD-2-Clause, so you can self-host the full product at no cost beyond your own infrastructure.
Yes — the open-source project is licensed BSD-2-Clause, so you can self-host the full product at no cost beyond your own infrastructure.Which topics is it in?redshift, bi, databricks, snowflake, bigquery, business-intelligence, spark, mariadb, data-analysis, charts, mongodb, analytics
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