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Retool is great software and has a great team. ( https://retool.com/ )

Can confirm that Retool is amazing.

Ran into some limits one or two years ago when using it with Firestore and had to go with something else, but I can’t really blame it for having trouble dealing with relationships when using a non-relational database ^^’

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Grafana is pretty great. There are a lot of built in connectors, but its ability to query arbitrary REST, JSON, oData etc endpoints along with databases makes it super flexible for what you mentioned. https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/simpod-json-datasource It has a great GUI for building queries, plus solid RBAC, great charting, and a very flexible alert system. Configure in their GUI, then get your dashboard's co…

yeah Grafana is probably the default choice I see at most customer sites for dashboards!

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Really looking forward to seeing the progress of causal[0]. Looks to me like they have a shot to become the best in class for interactive "dashboarding" in 2021. Imagine being able to do some on the fly scenario planning working from live data. Could be a game changer.

[0] - https://www.causal.app/

Re: Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

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Really looking forward to seeing the progress of causal[0]. Looks to me like they have a shot to become the best in class for interactive "dashboarding" in 2021. Imagine being able to do some on the fly scenario planning working from live data. Could be a game changer. [0] - https://www.causal.app/

thanks a bunch! "on the fly scenario planning from live data" is exactly what we're trying to enable :)

Re: Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

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I'm currently working on a SaaS like this: https://www.rationalbi.com/

It's meant to be a modern take on BI/Analytics, and sort of a blend between dashboards, scheduled reporting and notebook analytics (like Observable/Jupyter).

You can just drop in data files of any kind, syndicate data from your cloud drives, connect to remote databases, upload via the API, and it has 80k+ open datasets available for analysis and benchmarking.

It also has a full SQL database running in the browser, so if you build dynamic notebooks/dashboards with business logic, you can do really fast SQL without any network latencies.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator/founder of Rational BI.

Re: Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

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If your dashboarding needs are as rudimentary as you describe, then Streamlit! https://www.streamlit.io/ I use it for my dashboards. It's super simple to prototype apps and it's under rapid development.

That, or if interactivity is not that much of a concern, Jupyter notebooks (maybe with Voilá) is also a good option.

Re: Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

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Grafana is pretty great. There are a lot of built in connectors, but its ability to query arbitrary REST, JSON, oData etc endpoints along with databases makes it super flexible for what you mentioned. https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/simpod-json-datasource It has a great GUI for building queries, plus solid RBAC, great charting, and a very flexible alert system. Configure in their GUI, then get your dashboard's co…

I can’t decipher their pricing at all. What kind of usage gets expensive?
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