# Redash

> Redash is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the analytics category. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company. It has 28,831 GitHub stars, is released under the BSD-2-Clause license and ships a Docker image. It is a self-hosted alternative to Metabase Cloud, Tableau and Power BI.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/getredash/redash |
| Website | http://redash.io/ |
| GitHub stars | 28,831 |
| Forks | 4,632 |
| Open issues | 631 |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Python |
| Docker image | Yes |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Categories | Analytics |
| Commits, last 12 months | 82 |
| Last commit | Oct 4, 2026 |
| Latest release | v26.9.0 (Sep 24, 2026) |
| Created | Oct 28, 2013 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: redash, python, visualization, analytics, bi, redshift, bigquery, athena, mysql, postgresql

## Install

Redash ships a Docker image; follow the README at https://github.com/getredash/redash for the image name and environment variables.

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## Redash replaces

- [Metabase Cloud alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/metabase-cloud): A hosted business intelligence service for dashboards and ad-hoc questions.
- [Tableau alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/tableau): A business intelligence and data visualization platform.
- [Power BI alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/power-bi): Microsoft's business analytics and reporting tool.

## Comparisons

- [Metabase vs Redash](https://appsgit.com/compare/metabase-vs-redash): Pick Metabase for an actively developed BI tool with a visual query builder; pick Redash if your team writes SQL and wants a lightweight, BSD-licensed query and dashboard tool.

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