Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by sdoering » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 11:59 AM UTC

trevyn wrote: post #50

reilly3000 wrote: post #26

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?

What pricing? Just get the open source version, install it on a local machine - or on any available server - and get going:

https://grafana.com/get

You do not need to use the hosted offering in that case.

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

#52

Post by gbourne1 » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 12:03 PM UTC

dalacv wrote: post #32

Bubble.io

I’m also a fan of Bubble and have made a few dashboards and apps with it.

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

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Post by Havoc » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

What does the output look like?

I've recently had good luck streaming stuff from python into InfluxDB 2.0 - and that has built in basic charting / dashboard. Not grafana level fancy, but not bad either

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

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Post by mg » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

croisillon wrote: post #36

mg wrote: post #20

I looked into this recently, when I started writing the software to analyze my selftracking data. After researching available options for a while and consulting everyone I know in this field, I settled on building on top of the Plotly Javascript library: https://plotly.com/javascript/ It does nice interactive charts out of the box. All you need to do is throw data at it. What it lacks are more high level operations l…

I picked plotly in 2019 to build kind of a low-code-dashboarding at my company and got to look into it again few weeks ago, noticing there in fact is an aggregation capability.

Oh, you are right:

https://plotly.com/javascript/aggregations/

Pretty cool!

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

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Post by brunovcosta » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:57 PM UTC

If you want something more “hackable” (making changes on data, or use SSO), I recommend going with Abstra (https://abstra.app)

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

#56

Post by mariocesar » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

Send metrics to AWS Cloudwatch as custom Metrics.

   aws cloudwatch put-metric-data 
      --metric-name registered_users 
      --namespace MySaaS 
      --value 241

Visualize/Filter/Add Alerts using all the builtin tools from Amazon Cloudwatch, you will need no servers and no configurations. Just run in a cron job a set of queries every 5minutes

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

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Post by brunovcosta » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

brunovcosta wrote: post #55

If you want something more “hackable” (making changes on data, or use SSO), I recommend going with Abstra ( https://abstra.app )

Full disclosure, I made this tool

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

#58

Post by xtracto » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

petargyurov wrote: post #14

sixhobbits wrote: post #12

metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.

I want to love Metabase, I really do. But some of the UI decisions are mind boggling. Why is accessing reports and dashboards so difficult? Things are hidden away under poorly named constructs. Buttons don't do what I'd expect them to do... It's great but it comes with a few drawbacks.

I second this. I used database about 5/6 years ago and it was amazing. But they started to add collections a d my collections and a bunch of stuff and now everything seems hidden.

I still use it (deployed it at my current company and the CEO loves h iui s dashboard). But I hate the way things are hidden in the current layout.

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

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Post by juancn » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 3:54 PM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #26

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…

Grafana sucks in terms of UX, but it's free (it's main selling point) and supports many backends.

Creating dashboards is so freaking painful.

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

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Post by vladsanchez » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

meredydd wrote: post #10

Take a look at https://anvil.works - it's not just "low code", it's a full web-dev platform so simple that you can build a dashboard with a few lines of Python - front end, back end and drag-n-drop design. (I'm a founder.) The trouble with "low-code" is that you're stuck on rails - it's very easy to do a few things, but the moment you want something the creators didn't anticipate, prepare for a lot of pain. Anvil is…

Does the open source runtime has the same Free-Tier restrictions (Anvil Branding, Libraries, Domain)?