Business intelligence tools connect to your database and turn queries into charts and dashboards. The open-source leaders are mature enough for company-wide use.
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grafana grafana/grafana
The standard for observability dashboards (metrics, logs, traces), and increasingly used for business data too. AGPL-3.0.
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superset apache/superset
An Apache Foundation project for data exploration and visualisation at scale, with a SQL editor and many chart types. Apache-2.0.
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metabase metabase/metabase
The easiest for non-technical people: ask questions with a point-and-click builder, embed charts in your product.
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redash getredash/redash
SQL-first dashboards that connect to many data sources. BSD-2-Clause.
How to choose
Business users who don’t write SQL: Metabase. Data teams with large warehouses: Superset. Operational and infrastructure metrics: Grafana.
How we pick: we start from every public GitHub repository with 1,000+ stars, keep the projects that do the job in the title, and read their descriptions and licenses. Stars show community size, not quality, so we also show maintenance status. Nobody paid to be listed.