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Redash

Score7.3 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Redash?

Redash is a data visualization tool designed to allow users to connect and query any data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with a company. Databricks acquired Redash in June 2020.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Redash has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 16 ratings of Redash's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Report sharing and collaboration

    Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Publish to Web

    Category average: 8.2

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Delivery to Remote Servers

    Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

    Category average: 8.5

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 6.5

  • Report Delivery Scheduling

    Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

    Category average: 8

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Redash
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Information

26.0%

101 installations of 389

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

22.9%

89 installations of 389

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

5.9%

23 installations of 389

Reviews

What users are saying about Redash.
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Good Detail of Information but Hard on the Non-Developer.

Incentivized
Jeremias Padilla
Head of Operations at Mozio Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Redash as a reporting tool for our reservations database which allows us to pull reports to better be able to analyze the information about purchasing trends and other buyer behavior in line with the reservations and interactions from our team on them (management of changes, cancellations, issue reporting) but as well to provide detail around purchasing trends.

Pros

  • Detailed Reporting.
  • Real-time data.
  • Vast array of reporting.

Cons

  • A user friendly interface.
  • No need to know how to code to generate a new report.

Return on Investment

  • Better decision on priorities.
  • Better reporting to partners.

Alternatives Considered

Django Waffle

A elegant,fast and easy to setup reporting tool

Incentivized
Nitin kumar SinghView profile
Site Reliability Engineer in Information Technology at Atlassian (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Redash is used as an internal reporting and querying tool for our internal management data including monthly financial reports, incident reports, security reports as well as incidents monthly reports. Since it's not the most powerful reporting engine, it's mostly restricted to give quick small queryable results and does not serve as a very big data source.

Pros

  • Great Query Editor with Autocomplete feature
  • Very easy to setup and quickly connect to variety of data sources
  • Quick Dashboards with Simple UI which can be easily shareable

Cons

  • Dash boarding feature can be improved with complex logic and parametrized filters
  • It's not a easy BI tool if we don't know SQL but relies on UI features
  • User Management Module can be improved as basic level of segregation is there.

Return on Investment

  • It's not that expensive compared to other reporting utilities
  • Easier to setup and does not require lot of people to operate
  • Helps in lot of reporting and querying workflows

Alternatives Considered

Metabase and Amazon QuickSight

Other Software Used

Metabase, Amazon QuickSight, Tableau Server

Easy Dashboarding with Redash

Incentivized
Rahul ChhajedView profile
Software Engineer in Engineering at PeakPerformer (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Like any business, we are also required to have different kinds of reports for sales, marketing, and even at tech department. To create different reports for different people and then creating a frontend to view those reports then updating automatically is a big headache. But with Redash you can just query and create different reports as well charts and share across teams.

Pros

  • Great SQL editor easy to use
  • The setup instructions are clear and anybody can set it up easily.
  • Drag and drop to create different dashboards and resize them.

Cons

  • You need to have a good command over SQL to use Redash but if there could be some way where people can just pull data and do slice dice.
  • It would be nice to have an excel kind of filters when all data is fetched.
  • Some things like easy to customise the column names.

Return on Investment

  • So as far as investment its just the time you need to give and done.
  • You can host Redash on your server and just pay as you go.
  • There isn't much investment but a lot of things will be solved around reporting and charting.

Alternatives Considered

Metabase and Kibana

Other Software Used

Metabase

One stop for Redash

Verified User
Project Manager in Product Management (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it to query out data and build dashboards. It was used for instant mini queries, save large queries and monitor dashboards.
Starting from performance dashboards to fetching user details by an associate. We were using the visual features like line graphs and bar graphs. And downloading the exports as well.

Pros

  • Extract data
  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Saving queries for others

Cons

  • At times, the response time for the query takes more than a minute
  • Dashboard refreshes used to take time
  • Auto indentation was not there

Return on Investment

  • Cost effective
  • One tool for multiple purpose
  • Easy access provision

Alternatives Considered

Metabase, Tableau Online and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Other Software Used

Metabase, Tableau Online, Amazon Athena