{"slug": "show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities", "title": "Show HN: Redash Fork with AI Capabilities", "summary": "A developer has released a fork of the open-source data visualization tool Redash that adds AI capabilities, including text-to-query generation, auto-visualizations, auto-alerts, and AI-generated dashboards. The fork supports multiple AI providers such as Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, HuggingFace, OLlama, OpenAI, and OpenRouter, and now runs on macOS as well as Linux. The project is available on GitHub and includes installation instructions for local and on-premise setups.", "body_md": "Redash is an amazing open source tool for querying and visualizing data. It allows you to connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data, and collaborate with your team.\nFor more information, please visit [Redash GitHub repository](https://github.com/getredash/redash).\n\n**This fork adds support for AI.**\n\n**New** Redash features:\n\n**Data Source Description**: Help the AI to understand your data better.** Text To Query**: Use AI to generate SQL, NoSQL and other queries from natural language questions.** Auto Visualizations**: Use AI to auto-generate visualizations for questions.** Auto Alerts**: Use AI to generate alert suggestions from your data and queries.** Name To Dashboard**: Use AI to generate dashboards from your queries and visualizations.** MacOS Support**: Now it runs on MacOS as well as on Linux.\n\nWatch the demo video on YouTube to see the new AI features in action.\n\n*NOTICE: All tests were run on a local PC.*\n\n[Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/)[Cloud][DeepSeek](https://www.deepseek.com/)[Cloud, Local & Remote][Gemini](https://gemini.google.com/)[Cloud][Grok](https://grok.com/)[Cloud][HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/)[Local][OLlama](https://ollama.com/)[Cloud, Local & Remote][OpenAI](https://openai.com/)[Cloud][OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/)[Cloud]\n\nSee [Redash's Prerequisites](https://github.com/getredash/redash/wiki/Local-development-setup#set-up-the-prerequisites) for detailed instructions on how to install the prerequisites.\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/freaker2k7/redash\ncd redash\nmake local_init\nREDASH_COOKIE_SECRET=1234....1234\nREDASH_SECRET_KEY=1234...1235\nHF_TOKEN=hf_1234...1234\nmake local_run\n```\n\nAlternatively, you can run the server and client separately:\n\n```\n# Run the server\nmake up\n# Run the client\nmake start\n```\n\n*NOTE: This is useful if you want to run the server and client in separate machines.*\nwhile [[ $(curl -s -o /dev/null -w \"%{http_code}\" http://localhost:5001) -ne 200 ]]; do; sleep 1; done\n\n#### 6. Open your web browser and go to [http://localhost:5001](http://localhost:5001) to access Redash.\n\nInstall Nginx if you haven't already - [Nginx Installation Guide](https://nginx.org/en/docs/install.html)\n\nThen add the following configuration as `redash.conf`\n\nto your Nginx configuration folder (usually located at `/etc/nginx/conf.d/`\n\n):\n\n```\nserver {\n\tlisten 80;\n\n\tserver_name yourdomain.com;\n\n\t# If you want only HTTP, then remove from this comment...\n\treturn 301 https://$host$request_uri;\n}\n\nserver {\n\tlisten 443 ssl;\n\n\tserver_name yourdomain.com;\n\n\tssl_certificate /path/to/your/certificate.crt;\n\tssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/private.key;\n\t# ... up to this comment.\n\n\twhile [[ $(curl -s -o /dev/null -w \"%{http_code}\" http://localhost:5001) -ne 200 ]]; do; sleep 1; done\n\t\tproxy_pass http://localhost:5001;\n\t\tproxy_set_header Host $host;\n\t\tproxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n\t\tproxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n\t\tproxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;\n\t}\n}\n```\n\n*NOTE: This step is suited only for on-premise installations. If you are using a cloud provider, think about using their load balancer or reverse proxy service instead.*\n\nQuick installation steps for those who want to get started with Redash quickly:\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/freaker2k7/redash\ncd redash\nmake quickstart\n```\n\n*NOTE: This will take a few good minutes to complete. Once done, you can access Redash at http://localhost:5001. Meanwhile, you can get some coffee.*\n\nTo stop Redash, run the following command in the project directory:\n\n```\nmake down\n```\n\nAlso, you can clean up a bit by running, in the project directory:\n\n```\nmake clean\n```\n\nNow there is a helper Ubuntu docker in `/macos-helper`\n\nwhich assists with installing the python dependencies.\nMoreover it has an RDP support, so one can use Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager to access the Ubuntu GUI and work on the Redash server and client from there.\n\nYou can build the helper docker with the following command:\n\n```\ndocker build -t macos-install-helper ./macos-helper\n```\n\nThen run it with the following command:\n\n```\ndocker run -d -p 3389:3389 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v $(pwd):/home/redash/redash --name ubuntu macos-install-helper /entrypoint.sh rdp\n```\n\nFinally, you can connect to the Ubuntu GUI with the following credentials:\n\n```\nUsername: redash\nPassword: 1234\nHost: localhost\nPort: 3389\n```\n\nPlease email [me](mailto:thenetfreaker+security@gmail.com) to report any security vulnerabilities regarding the AI feature explicitly. We will acknowledge receipt of your vulnerability and strive to send you regular updates about our progress. If you're curious about the status of your disclosure please feel free to email us again. For any other issue, please issue or PR to the [Redash GitHub repository](https://github.com/getredash/redash).\n\nBSD-2-Clause.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/freaker2k7/redash", "published_at": "2026-09-01 15:29:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-01 15:53:56.513732+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Redash", "Anthropic", "DeepSeek", "Gemini", "Grok", "HuggingFace", "OLlama", "OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-redash-fork-with-ai-capabilities.jsonld"}}