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)
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |