People often need answers from business data without asking a developer to build a separate report each time. Metabase connects to databases and provides an interface for asking questions, showing charts and sharing dashboards. Analysts can also work with SQL where appropriate. The business records stay in the connected data sources, while Metabase stores its own questions, dashboards and settings in a separate application database that also needs protection.
Current guidance
Metabase’s official container guide distinguishes the Open Source image from the Pro/Enterprise image. It also warns that the embedded H2 application database in a disposable container is not an appropriate production setup. Questions, dashboards, collections and configuration can be lost even when the underlying business database remains intact.
Provision a supported application database and preserve its credentials and backups independently of analytics-source connections. If moving from H2, follow Metabase’s documented migration process rather than pointing the new container at an empty PostgreSQL database and expecting the old dashboards to appear.
Use appropriately restricted credentials for queried data sources and review what users can access through saved questions, SQL and public sharing. Test an upgrade against a restored application database, including custom drivers, scheduled delivery and authentication. Pin the selected image and verify its edition requirements. A running web interface is not evidence that metadata is durable or that all query permissions are correct; this review did not execute an application upgrade.
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Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. It lets you ask questions about your data and displays answers in formats that make sense, whether that’s a bar graph or a detailed table.
Your questions can be saved for later, making it easy to come back to them, or you can group questions into great looking dashboards. Metabase also makes it easy to share questions and dashboards with the rest of your team.
Features
- 5-minute setup (We’re not kidding)
- Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL
- Rich beautiful dashboards with auto refresh and fullscreen
- SQL Mode for analysts and data pros
- Create canonical segments and metrics for your team to use
- Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with Pulses
- View data in Slack anytime with MetaBot
- Humanize data for your team by renaming, annotating and hiding fields
Supported databases
- Postgres
- MySQL
- Druid
- SQL Server
- Redshift
- MongoDB
- Google BigQuery
- SQLite
- H2
- CrateDB
- Oracle
- Vertica
- Presto
Ask your own questions
Explore on your own
Easily filter and group your data to find just what you’re looking for, all without ever writing a line of SQL or having to wait on a co-worker.
See connections
It just takes a click to see individual records and explore connections between your data, so you can move from who, to what effortlessly.
Visualize results
Move from your data to beautiful graphs and charts with just a few clicks.
Share what you find.
Activity
Get a real-time glimpse into what your company is learning about your data. Activity helps people in your company find an answer, jump starts their own exploration, or improve existing questions.
Dashboards
Let everyone on your team create, organize and share collections of data.
Open source and constantly improving.
Metabase is built and maintained by a dedicated team and is open source, so the community can help improve it too. You get new features, interface improvements, and bug fixes for free, and can forget about building or maintaining your own analytics platform.
Free and simple to set up.
Start out simple and run Metabase on your own laptop, or set it up for your entire company on your own servers. You get full control of how and where you run Metabase which means:
- No storage limits, pricing tiers, or caps.
- Your data stays private and on your own servers.
Easily and securely add analytics to your application
You can embed any Metabase Chart or Dashboard in your application. Using Metabase to power in-app analytics lets you:
- Securely provide per-user analytics and reporting.
- Iterate on your in-app analytics faster than writing custom code.
- Prevent inconsistencies between internal and in-app analytics.
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