How to Install Redash on Ubuntu 20.04

Install Redash on Ubuntu 20.04

In this article, we will have explained the necessary steps to install and configure Redash on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Before continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges. All the commands in this tutorial should be run as a non-root user.

Redash is a data visualization tool built to allow for fast and easy access to billions of records collected from various data sources. Redash can retrieve data from multiple supported databases as follows Amazon Athena, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DYnamoDB, and much more.

Install Redash on Ubuntu 20.04

Step 1. First, before you start installing any package on your Ubuntu server, we always recommend making sure that all system packages are updated.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Install Redash on the Ubuntu system.

Now download and run Redash installation script from GitHub page:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getredash/setup/master/setup.sh

Once downloaded the script, we make the script executable and run it:

chmod +x setup.sh
sudo ./setup.sh

Step 3. Access Redash Dashboard.

Finally, access the Redash dashboard interface from the browser using the URL indicated:

http://your-server-IP-address

Install Redash on Ubuntu 20.04

That’s all you need to do to install Redash on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa. I hope you find this quick tip helpful. For further reading on Install Redash data visualization, please refer to their official knowledge base. If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.