Redash 25.1.0

[girish]

Redash made a mega jump from 10.1 to 25.1 . It's a release after 3 years. I have pushed this as a major upgrade . Expect anything to happen on upgrade. There's too many changes to realistically understand the full change.

[ChristopherMag]

I have done the upgrade and at present nothing is coming from any of my datasources.

The queries and dashboards are still there but the data is either old and clicking refresh just spins or it doesn't display any data.

If I go to a datasource and click test connection it also just spins but doesn't error or complete.

I have both mongodb and postgresql datasources.

Rolling back now.

[joseph]

Any errors in the logs? Also, is this reproducible on a fresh install?

[zonzonzon]

Connection Test Failed:
Unknown error occurred while performing connection test. Please try again later

I just installed and tried running Redash, but I can't connect to any data sources.

[nebulon]

You may have to setup a tunnel for that https://docs.cloudron.io/packages/redash/#ssh-tunnel

[ChristopherMag]

@joseph and @zonzonzon Just fyi, We had been using Metabase for all new reports so I took the time to go back and pull out the things we still commonly used and moved them from Redash to Metabase.

There is still a long tail of things in redash that I don't want to lose but that we don't use often enough to justify the time spent on it yet so our redash instance hasn't been updated past package version 4.1.0-1 which is redash version 11.0.0-dev

This doesn't seem to line up with Girish's comment about going from 10.1 to 25.1 so I am not sure how we got on a package that has 11.0.0-dev in it.

Started with Grafana, moved to Redash, now moved to Metabase, hopefully we can park here for a while.

[zonzonzon]

@ChristopherMag

Could you share the reasons behind switching from Redash to Metabase?
I'm also currently evaluating Briefer: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12467/briefer-run-sql-and-python-and-turn-notebooks-into-dashboards
From what I understand, is Redash more suited for technical teams, while Metabase seems more user-friendly for general business users? I'd appreciate hearing about your experience with both platforms and what drove the decision to migrate.

[joseph]

@zonzonzon said in Redash 25.1.0:

Could you share the reasons behind switching from Redash to Metabase?

Redash was really good when it started but got acquired by datastix. Then, the project just died . Even now, it's in an unknown state and there was no release for over 3 years.

[zonzonzon]

@nebulon I tried adding both BigQuery and Postgres but couldn't connect to either. I saw logs from Cloudron indicating that the worker couldn't start.

[ChristopherMag]

@zonzonzon as @joseph said, my understanding is that Databricks acquired Redash in 2020 an since then a closed source fork of the project that integrates into their products has been the focus of development.

I essentially consider the project dead and wouldn't use it if you have a suitable alternative you can use instead, for me that is primarily Metabase.