Metriql – The first open-source headless BI solution
Metriql – The first open-source headless BI solution launched on August 25, 2021 with 10 votes, #1,345 of 2,953 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Metriql is an open-source headless business intelligence platform launched in 2021. It enables developers and data teams to build custom analytics experiences without a traditional BI interface. The solution separates the data layer from presentation, allowing metrics and data models to be queried and integrated into various applications. It's designed for organizations that need flexible, programmatic access to business intelligence capabilities rather than relying on standard BI dashboards.
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Introduction
Today, most data-led/driven companies successfully establish the data warehouse as the single source of truth for their data and collect all their data into their data warehouse through ETL jobs. However, ETL is only one part of the whole process. Companies want to collect and own their data because they want to consume it in various ways to grow their business, whether by building analytical dashboards for stakeholders or building an ML application. To consume the data via BI or data tools, companies need to model their data and define business metrics and KPIs so stakeholders can agree on the definition of the data. Establishing the single source of truth for metadata is very difficult…from metriql.com
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