Redash

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

Redash is a BI / dashboard platform focused on SQL-based analytics — write SQL queries, visualize as charts, combine into dashboards. Lower-friction than Metabase / Superset for SQL-savvy teams. BSD-3 licensed core after Databricks acquisition (with some commercial extensions).

For data teams whose primary interface is SQL and who want lightweight dashboarding, Redash is the SQL-first choice.

What it's for

  • SQL-based analytics — write queries, visualize results
  • Dashboard composition — combine visualizations into dashboards
  • Scheduled queries — refresh data on intervals
  • Alerting — fire on query result thresholds
  • Embedded dashboards — share publicly or embed in apps

Who it's for

  • Data analysts comfortable with SQL
  • Engineering teams building dashboards from production DBs
  • Startups democratizing data via simple SQL + viz
  • Data engineers monitoring pipelines via queries
  • Cost-conscious teams moving off Tableau / Looker

Why teams pick Redash over alternatives

  • BSD-3 — fully open core
  • SQL-first — most efficient for SQL-savvy users
  • Schedule + alert — beyond just dashboards
  • Multi-source dashboards — combine queries from different DBs
  • Snippet library — reusable SQL fragments
  • Embed mode — sharing flexibility

Integrations

  • Databases — Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena, ClickHouse, MongoDB, more
  • Authentication — local + OAuth + LDAP + SAML
  • Email — SMTP for scheduled report delivery
  • Alerting — Slack, PagerDuty, custom webhooks
  • Embedded analytics — public + private embed modes
  • API — REST API for programmatic access
  • Python data source — execute Python for custom analytics

Notable users & community

  • 27k+ GitHub stars
  • Used by Soundcloud, Uber, Stack Overflow for production analytics
  • Now under Databricks ownership (post-acquisition)
  • Community development continues
  • Featured in BI tool comparisons

Tips & operations

  • Permissions discipline — data sources + queries can leak data; permission carefully
  • Cache settings — query caching speeds dashboards significantly
  • Postgres + Redis required — both essential
  • Persistent volumes — Postgres + Redis
  • Mind query cost — uncapped concurrent queries can OOM source DBs
  • Backup Redash Postgres — saved queries + dashboards = your work

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Docker compose: Redash + Postgres + Redis
  • Pinned redash/redash:25 (release-tagged)
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
  • Admin user via env config
  • Persistent volumes for Postgres + Redis
  • SMTP placeholder for scheduled emails
  • Backup hook covers Postgres (queries + dashboards + users)
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