# Analytics

Violet <mark style="color:purple;">**Analytics**</mark> allows you to create queries, visualizations, insights and reports - directly from the database.

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Our Analytics module uses the open-source, industry standard tool [Metabase](https://www.metabase.com/) to enable powerful self-serve reporting directly to the user, whether or not you speak SQL.