Insights
Insights is a tool to visually explore a PostgreSQL database, with an emphasis on generating graphs that show business performance over time.
Insights aims to evolve into a complete Business Intelligence platform. Think of "Google Data Studio" or "Google Looker", but without the "Google" part. You contributions towards making that happen are greatly appreciated!
See a live demo for Widgets Inc, a fictional e-commerce site.
Important Disclaimer and Security Notice!
Please be aware that is an extremely early BETA release of Insights, which has not gone through any kind of security audit.
Use on a live server at your own risk!
Installing
To install, make sure you have Node 10+ installed and then run:
npm install -g insights
insights init
insights start
This creates a folder .insights which contains all the config and runtime data.
Implemented Features
- Self Hosted, installed via NPM
- PostgreSQL connection support
- Auto-detect your database schema, including all foreign keys!
- Connect to multiple databases
- Edit the schema and add custom SQL fields right there in the interface!
- Create subsets of your data (e.g. share only a few fields with marketing)
- Data explorer
- Filters on the data
- Time-based graphs
- Split the graph by some column (e.g. new users by country name)
- Keyboard navigation in the sidebar
- Saved views
- Pinned fields
Coming Soon
- Embed React or <iframe> components and get data through the insights API
- Decent mobile support
- Log in with your Google Account
- Manage users in the interface
- Access control for subsets
- PDF and XLSX exports
- Way more and better graphs
- View generated SQL
- Dashboards
- Multiple lines from different sources on one chart in the dashboard
- Plugins?
Please Support
Insights is built by me (@mariusandra) personally from my free time. If you find the project cool or use it in your company, please consider giving a small monthly donation as thanks!
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Development
If you want to help with development, run these steps:
# 1. fork the repo in github
# 2. clone it
git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_NAME_HERE>/insights.git
# 3. install all dependencies
cd insights
yarn
# 4. start the app
yarn run init
yarn start
# 5. open http://localhost:3000/ and hack away