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Chartio acquired by Atlassian, shutting down March 1, 2022 (chartio.com)
20 points by robotfelix on Feb 26, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Received this news in my inbox.

My initial impression was that Atlassian was joining in the Business Intelligence tool acquisition party after Looker and Tableau were acquired in the last couple of years, however it seems their motivations may be different as they are immediately shutting down Chartio without even dangling a possibility of an Atlassian replacement product arriving in future.

(I’m certainly not aware of Atlassian currently having any BI offerings?)


they are giving a year to migrate before shutting down, but yea. Not amazing as I get to find a replacement for work


This is super sad. Chartio is a great tool, but not communicating clearly (that blog post is just marketing nonsense), and just leaving existing customers out to dry like this is not cool.


The migration guide basically consists of "Dump it to PDF".


Seems like it's still online till March 1, 2022. It's a shame. Because it's was the best tool for the job I could find


The value prop for me was the easy report builder. I'm in the process of looking at similar alternatives: https://www.holistics.io/ is the first one that seems 1 to 1.

I'd also like more options for working with reports outside of chartio. The only option at the moment is to email a link to a CSV. No API for exporting data existed.


It doesn't seem immediately clear, but it looks like this is a talent and technology acquisition. I don't see a BI/Analytics offering from Atlassian, and no mention of integrating Chartio into their existing product suite.

All signs in the Chartio migration guide point to downloading and exporting existing reports.


Hi, Anders here. I'm currently working on a BI SaaS that might be a good replacement for Chartio: https://www.rationalbi.com

It's a modern take on BI/Analytics, and has all the typical business intelligence functionality: dashboards, scheduled reporting, enterprise security and SAML as well as 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: Founder of Rational BI.


Hey guys! Xavier here. I am the co-founder of Index (tryindex.com) and we're a YC company building a modern alternative to Chartio. We're currently just prioritizing folks looking to migrate. If you would like access just shoot me an email to xavier@tryindex.com and I can give you access(:


Sucks to hear this :/

We've been using Index (https://tryindex.com) and are pretty happy with them - super lightweight and easy to get started.

Edit: looks like the founders beat me to this thread! Hit em up :)


If you’re using Chartio and looking to migrate, here are a few alternatives you can consider. These are mostly cloud-based tool that is SQL-native and sends your written SQL queries to your SQL data-warehouse.

1/ Redash: write SQL gets charts, similar to Chartio (although a bit less polished as it was developed by a small team). Open-source or Cloud-based. Downside is they recently get acquired by Databricks, so I’m not sure how that will affect their product roadmap. Support for Google Sheets as well.

2/ Superset: also write SQL gets charts. They’re both open-source (Apache Incubated), and being supported by a commercial company behind (Preset). Their visualization library looks pretty diverse too.

3/ Metabase: This is also based on SQL. The difference is that they put a simple modeling layer in between your DW and SQL, so that they provide a simple ‘ask question’ interface for business users to get data, it’s quite simple though so if business users want more sophisticated questions they’ll need to resort back to SQL. Their UI is pretty sleek. Both open source and cloud-based (pricing starts from $100) with a commercial company behind.

4/ Holistics: Similar to Metabase, where they provide a modeling layer and self-service capability to non-technical layer. Difference is their modeling layer seems more sophisticated than that of Metabase. They also support the T in ELT as part of modeling. Support for Google Sheets as well. Their UI looks well-polished. Cloud-based only, with pricing starting from $100. They’re also working on Git version-controlling your SQL/modeling code so that it’s easier to track change/audit, this might help prevent vendor lock-in and ease future migration.

5/ Mode: Write SQL gets charts (similar to Redash/Superset). They’re a lot more polished than Redash, with a focus towards doing Data Science (native Python/R support, Notebook, etc). Their Free plan supports up to 5 users, but beyond that you will need to talk to their sales people to get quoted pricing. I heard it can get over $1k/month based with additional user pricing on top.

6/ Looker: probably best in-class in term of SQL-based data modeling, but very expensive.

7/ There are also other tools which I don’t think fit in the SQL-native narrative, like AWS Quicksight, Google Data Studio, PowerBI, Tableau and Qlik.

P/s: These 2 posts give a fairly good framework on how to look/evaluate different BI tools. This is a pretty crowded space with many different paradigms baked in over many years, so it might be a bit confusing for new people looking into the field

- https://www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/navigating-th...

- https://www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/the-arc-of-ad...


Talk about ruining personal reputations. Dave Fowler, CEO should never be funded for another company again. You have to have some commitment to customers that have spent nearly a decade using your tool and building out reporting.




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