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Get Started with Rill

Rill Developer users encompass the data engineers, analytics engineers, BI developers, and platform teams — all building data pipelines, defining metrics, and delivering interactive dashboards with Rill. In addition to Rill Developer for local project development, these docs cover deploying to Rill Cloud, embedding dashboards into your own applications, and integrating with external tools and APIs.

Looking to explore dashboards and data that your team has already set up? Head over to the User Guide.

Install​

Install Rill using the command below, then launch your first project to explore core features hands-on. For more installation methods, see our complete installation instructions.

curl https://rill.sh | sh
rill start my-rill-project

New to Rill? Follow the Quickstart to build your first dashboard with a public dataset, or browse our tutorials.

Start Developing​

Rill Developer is a local application that makes it easy to build end-to-end analytics pipelines. Connect to data sources, write SQL or YAML models for last-mile transformations, define a metrics layer with measures and dimensions, and preview interactive dashboards — all from your local machine. See the full Build docs for details.

ConnectorsConnect to S3, GCS, BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse, and moreModelsTransform and prepare data with SQL or YAML modelsMetrics ViewsDefine measures, dimensions, and time series for dashboardsDashboardsBuild Explore and Canvas dashboardsCustom APIsCreate API endpoints to retrieve data outside of Rill

Looking for hands-on examples? Browse our tutorials and example projects for guided walkthroughs you can clone and explore.

Deploy to Rill Cloud​

Rill Developer is great for building and testing locally, but once you're ready to share your work, deploy your project to Rill Cloud. Rill Cloud is a fully managed service where your team can explore dashboards, ask questions with AI Chat, set up alerts, and schedule reports — no local setup required for consumers.

Local vs CloudUnderstand the differences between local and cloudDeploy to Rill CloudPublish your project to Rill CloudCredentialsConfigure deployment credentials

Integrate into your Application​

Rill is designed to fit into your existing stack. Embed interactive dashboards directly into your web applications using iframes, programmatically control them with the Embed API, or build custom API endpoints to pull Rill data into external tools and workflows.

Embed DashboardsEmbed Rill dashboards into your applications using iframesEmbed APIProgrammatically control embedded dashboardsCustom APIsIntegrate custom APIs in external applications

Join the Community​

Rill is open source — browse the code on GitHub or join the community on Discord. If you're a customer, reach out directly via your dedicated Slack channel or contact support.