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Keboola

Keboola is my new favourite toy and I have lost many hours playing with it and so far all for free, they even have free training which I have mostly been able to follow with the free account, though the tool is clearly evolving quickly and the training is now over a year old. 

However finding Keboola and the free MySQL databases are what inspired me to start this project. 

What I like about Keboola (Free): 

  • So far (over a week) completely free and no credit card required. I am not anywhere near looking like I am going to use my allocation for this month. 
  • Easy to connect to Snowflake, Google Drive, Google Sheets, MySQL and much more. 
  • Free use of Snowflake, with Snowflake being so hot at the moment this is great. 
  • Lots of logging. 
  • Decent training that is mostly useful, 

The dashboard:


What I don't like: 

  • I couldn't get the gmail connector to work due to Google Security policies. 
  • Product is evolving so quickly that training is already date or can't be done on free tier? Including the tasks to get their certifications. 
  • Some things were not obvious but were, to be fair, answered by the training. 

Summary: 

I am sure I will do many more posts about Keboola but if you are an aspiring data person and want to widen your horizons or try out new tech then Keboola looks like a great option. Time will tell if I continue to find it interesting and easy to use, but so far I am impressed and love the ability so spin up a mini Snowflake database. 

Below is a screenshot of me using my snowflake database and I have linked to a very basic dashboard I built in a previous post. 



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