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Metabase is an open-source business intelligence platform. You can use Metabase to ask questions about your data, or embed Metabase in your app to let your customers explore their data on their own.
The easiest way to get started with Metabase is to sign up for a free trial of Metabase Cloud. You get support, backups, upgrades, an SMTP server, SSL certificate, SoC2 Type 2 security auditing, and more (plus your money goes toward improving Metabase). Check out our quick overview of cloud vs self-hosting. If you need to, you can always switch to self-hosting Metabase at any time (or vice versa).
Run as a JAR, using Docker, or on Metabase Cloud.
Once installed, set up your Metabase and connect to your data.
With your data connected, get started asking questions, creating dashboards, and sharing your work.
Metabase is a deep product with a lot of tools to simplify business intelligence, from embeddable charts and interactive dashboards, to GUI and SQL editors, to auditing and data sandboxing, and more.
Metabase's reference documentation.
- Installation overview
- Installing Metabase
- Upgrading Metabase
- Configuring the Metabase application database
- Backing up Metabase
- Migrating to a production application database
- Monitoring your Metabase
- Serialization
- Commands
- Supported browsers
- Privacy
- About the anonymous usage data we collect
- Databases overview
- Adding and managing databases
- Database users, roles, and privileges
- Syncing and scanning databases
- Encrypting your database connection
- SSH tunneling
- SSL certificate
- Uploading data
- The SQL editor
- SQL parameters
- Referencing models and saved questions
- SQL snippets
- SQL snippet folder permissions
- Dashboards overview
- Introduction to dashboards
- Dashboard filters
- Interactive dashboards
- Charts with multiple series
- Dashboard subscriptions
- Actions on dashboards
- Data modeling overview
- Models
- Model persistence
- Table metadata admin settings
- Field types
- Formatting defaults
- Working with JSON
- Segments and metrics
- Organization overview
- Basic exploration
- Collections
- History
- Data reference
- Events and timelines
- X-rays
- People overview
- Account settings
- Managing people and groups
- Password complexity
- Session expiration
- Google Sign-In or LDAP
- API keys
- Permissions overview
- Permissions introduction
- Data permissions
- Collection permissions
- Application permissions
- Data sandboxes
- Data sandbox examples
- SQL snippets folder permissions
- Notification permissions
- Embedding overview
- Embedding introduction
- Interactive embedding
- Interactive embedding quick start
- Static embedding
- Parameters for static embeds
- Configuration overview
- Setting up Metabase
- General settings
- Slack
- Environment variables
- Configuration file
- Metabase log configuration
- Timezones
- Languages and localization
- Appearance
- Caching query results
- Custom maps
- Customizing the Metabase Jetty webserver
Some Metabase plans offer additional features.
Learn Metabase has a ton of articles on how to use Metabase, data best practices, and more.
Share and connect with other Metabasers.
For docs specific to Metabase Cloud plans.
Practical advice from our community.
News, updates, and ideas.
Real companies, real data, real stories.
We tweet stuff.
Follow us on GitHub.
A list of all Metabase releases, including both the Enterprise Edition and the Open Source Edition.
Contribute to the Metabase open source project!
Data jargon explained.
If you’d like more technical resources to set up your data stack with Metabase, connect with a Metabase Expert.