General
What's Fanar?
Fanar is designed to enable anyone, regardless of the level of technical sophistication, to harness the power of data big and small. SQL users leverage Fanar to explore, query, visualize, and share data from any data sources. Their work in turn enables anybody in their organization to use the data. Every day, millions of users at thousands of organizations around the world use Fanar to develop insights and make data-driven decisions. Fanar features:
- Browser-based: Everything in your browser, with a shareable URL.
- Ease-of-use: Become immediately productive with data without the need to master complex software.
- Query editor: Quickly compose SQL and NoSQL queries with a schema browser and auto-complete.
- Visualization and dashboards: Create beautiful visualizations with drag and drop, and combine them into a single dashboard.
- Sharing: Collaborate easily by sharing visualizations and their associated queries, enabling peer review of reports and queries.
- Schedule refreshes: Automatically update your charts and dashboards at regular intervals you define.
- Alerts: Define conditions and be alerted instantly when your data changes.
- REST API: Everything that can be done in the UI is also available through REST API.
- Broad support for data sources: Extensible data source API with native support for a long list of common databases and platforms.
Is Fanar compatible with Windows?
As a User, you can use Fanar from any operating system with a modern browser (we recommend Chrome or Firefox). But, if you're looking to run the Open Source/Self-Hosted version of Fanar then for this, you'll need a Linux server (or a VM/Docker container).
Browsers Fanar Works Best On
We recommend using Chrome or Firefox.
If you encounter any issues that are browser specific, please let us know.