Metabase

What is Metabase ?

Metabase is the easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

Metabase Features

• Set up in five minutes (we’re not kidding).
• Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL.
• Use the SQL editor for more complex queries.
• Build handsome, interactive dashboards with filters, auto-refresh, fullscreen, and custom click behavior.
• Create models that clean up, annotate, and/or combine raw tables.
• Define canonical segments and metrics for your team to use.
• Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with dashboard subscriptions.
• Set up alerts to have Metabase notify you when your data changes.
• Embed charts and dashboards in your app, or even your entire Metabase.

Take a tour of Metabase.

Supported databases

• Officially supported databases
• Partner and Community drivers

Install Metabase

Metabase can be run just about anywhere. Check out our Installation Guides.

Quick Setup: Dev environment

In order to spin up a development environment, you need to start the front end and the backend as follows:

Frontend quick setup

The following command will install the Javascript dependencies:

$ yarn install

To build and run without watching changes:

$ yarn build

To build and run with hot-reload:

$ yarn build-hot

Backend quick setup

In order to run the backend, you’ll need to build the drivers first, and then start the backend:

$ ./bin/build-drivers.sh
$ clojure -M:run

For a more detailed setup of a dev environment for Metabase, check out our Developers Guide.