Chartio was a business intelligence and data visualization platform acquired by Atlassian in 2021 and shut down in March 2022. Here is what it was and why it…
While it was operating, Chartio positioned itself as an easier-to-adopt alternative to heavyweight enterprise BI tools. Its core interface combined a drag-and-drop visual query builder with a full SQL editor, so both non-technical business users and data-literate analysts could work in the same tool at their own comfort level. Users could connect Chartio to a wide range of relational and cloud data warehouses, build charts and dashboards, schedule automated report delivery, and share results across teams. It was commonly used by startups and mid-sized companies that needed self-service analytics without dedicating a full data engineering team to standing up and maintaining a BI stack.
Atlassian announced its acquisition of Chartio in February 2021, describing it publicly as a move to strengthen Atlassian's own cross-product analytics and visualization capabilities rather than as an investment in growing Chartio as an independent, externally sold BI product. Over the following year, Atlassian made clear it would not continue operating Chartio for outside customers, and the company set a firm shutdown date of March 1, 2022, giving existing customers time to export their data and migrate to another BI platform. This outcome is an important, well-documented example of an acqui-hire-style acquisition in the data-tools space: rather than continuing or absorbing the acquired product, the acquiring company folded the team's expertise inward and discontinued the customer-facing service entirely. As of today, Chartio should be treated purely as a discontinued, historical product with no active subscription, support, or roadmap.
No. Chartio was shut down by Atlassian on March 1, 2022, roughly a year after Atlassian acquired the company in February 2021. It cannot be signed up for or used today.
Atlassian acquired Chartio in February 2021 but chose not to integrate it into its own product suite. Chartio's CEO said the decision reflected a need for Atlassian to focus specifically on delivering analytics and visualization for the Atlassian platform, rather than continuing to run Chartio as a general-purpose external BI product.
Former Chartio users migrated to alternative business intelligence platforms such as Looker, Metabase, Mode, Sigma Computing, and Reveal BI, several of which marketed themselves directly as Chartio replacements around the time of the shutdown.
Atlassian announced its acquisition of Chartio in February 2021.
Chartio was a cloud-based business intelligence and data visualization tool that let users connect to databases and data warehouses, build dashboards using either a visual query builder or SQL, and share reports across teams.
No. Since the service was shut down on March 1, 2022, Chartio's infrastructure is no longer operating, and any dashboards or data not migrated elsewhere before the shutdown are not accessible.
No. Despite early framing suggesting Chartio's technology might inform Atlassian's analytics capabilities, Chartio was not integrated into Jira, Confluence, or any other surviving Atlassian product; the standalone service was discontinued instead.