AwesomeDataviz

Open-source dashboards & BI tools

Self-hosted business intelligence, monitoring and dashboards. 12 tools, ranked by GitHub stars and updated .

Open-source business intelligence and dashboard applications. They connect to databases and data warehouses, let teams explore data with SQL or visual query builders, and publish dashboards that refresh on a schedule, an alternative to commercial BI suites that you can self-host.

Monitoring-oriented tools such as Grafana focus on time series from metrics and logs, while BI tools such as Apache Superset and Metabase focus on querying business data.

By GitHub stars, the most popular dashboard and BI tools here are Grafana (77.1K stars), Apache Superset (75K stars), and Metabase (49.5K stars). 11 of 12 had commits in the last 90 days.
1 Grafana

Observability and data visualization platform for metrics, logs and traces from many data sources.

 77.1K 11,330 AGPL-3.0
2 Apache Superset

Data exploration and visualization platform with a no-code chart builder, SQL IDE and dashboards.

 75K 5,646 Apache-2.0
3 Metabase

Business intelligence tool for querying data and building dashboards, with embedded analytics.

 49.5K 6,704 Other
4 Redash

Query data sources with SQL, then visualize the results and build dashboards.

 28.8K 90 BSD-2-Clause
5 Kibana

Visualization and dashboard UI for data stored in Elasticsearch.

 21.3K 21,018 Other
6 Evidence

Business intelligence as code: build reports and dashboards with SQL and Markdown.

 7K 204 MIT
7 Lightdash

BI tool that turns dbt projects into metrics, charts and dashboards.

 6.2K 12,219 Other
8 Observable Framework

Static site generator for data apps, dashboards and reports using JavaScript, SQL and Markdown.

 3.7K 12 ISC
9 Rill

BI tool for fast, metrics-first dashboards powered by OLAP engines such as DuckDB and ClickHouse.

 2.9K 1,540 Apache-2.0
10 Perses

CNCF dashboard tool and open dashboard specification for observability data such as Prometheus metrics.

 2.5K 592 Apache-2.0
11 OpenSearch Dashboards

Visualization and dashboard UI for OpenSearch; Apache-2.0 fork of Kibana 7.10.

 2.1K 941 Apache-2.0
12 DataLens

Business intelligence and data visualization system, originally developed at Yandex.

 1.7K 32 Apache-2.0

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What is the most popular dashboard and BI tool?

By GitHub stars, Grafana is the most popular, with 77.1K stars, followed by Apache Superset (75K) and Metabase (49.5K).

Which dashboard and BI tools are actively maintained?

12 of the 12 tools listed had commits in the last 12 months, including Grafana, Apache Superset, Metabase, Redash, and Kibana. Each tool page shows monthly commit activity.

Are these dashboard and BI tools free and open source?

9 of the 12 tools listed use an OSI-approved open-source license; the others are source-available, free to use, or use a custom license, so check each tool page. The most common license here is Apache-2.0.

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