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Set up a basic pipeline for log analysis Image Mar 04, 2024 in Using Metabase

Set up a basic pipeline for log analysis

You can use a BI tool for small scale log analysis with data visualizations. Here are a few tips and suggestions to get started.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

Embed a Metabase dashboard in Zendesk Image Feb 26, 2024 in Using Metabase

Embed a Metabase dashboard in Zendesk

Get the customer data and insights you need automatically filtered and ready for use within your support tickets. You can also embed a dashboard in Salesforce, Stripe, Jira, or platforms that allow embedding URLs.

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Ignacio Beines Furcada and Sarina Bloodgood

‧ 5 min read

Keeping tabs on embedded analytics Image Feb 19, 2024 in Using Metabase

Keeping tabs on embedded analytics

Metabase's usage analytics can help you learn who your most engaged customers are and what’s most important to them.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Comparing the most popular open-source charting libraries Image Feb 13, 2024 in Analytics & BI

Comparing the most popular open-source charting libraries

Discover features from commonly used data visualization libraries, like Chart.js, ECharts, and Nivo, and learn when to go with a batteries-included option instead.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 6 min read

Understand how your team uses Metabase Image Jan 11, 2024 in Using Metabase

Understand how your team uses Metabase

Learn which dashboards are most popular, how to track active users and changes to settings and configurations, view audit logs to monitor incidents, and more.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

Metabase housekeeping with usage analytics Image Jan 10, 2024 in Using Metabase

Metabase housekeeping with usage analytics

Clear out outdated, unused questions and dashboards to make space for the most valuable stuff. Improve load times by caching the questions that consume the most resources.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 7 min read

How data-driven is your org? Image Jan 08, 2024 in Analytics & BI

How data-driven is your org?

How to take usage analytics to organize your Metabase and point people to the data they want to (and should be) looking at.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

10 handy Metabase features you may not know about Image Dec 05, 2023 in Using Metabase

10 handy Metabase features you may not know about

Here are ten features of Metabase that may take some time to discover, but once you do you may find yourself using all the time.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 6 min read

Choose where your Metabase Cloud is hosted Image Oct 11, 2023 in News

Choose where your Metabase Cloud is hosted

Speed up your Metabase by hosting it closer to you and your data with new cloud-hosting options in the EU (Frankfurt), APAC (Singapore), or LATAM (São Paulo).

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Security incident post-mortem: July 2023 Image Aug 04, 2023 in News

Security incident post-mortem: July 2023

A recap of the H2 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Security vulnerability and our response.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 17 min read

Advice for building and scaling an effective and happy data team Image Aug 03, 2023 in Analytics & BI

Advice for building and scaling an effective and happy data team

If you don't understand data roles enough to scope job descriptions or workload, get ready for burnout, turnover, and the death of company-wide data culture. Our data team offers some advice on how to build a healthy data team.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 8 min read

Urgent: Upgrade your Metabase installation now. H2-related remote code execution found Image Jul 28, 2023 in News

Urgent: Upgrade your Metabase installation now. H2-related remote code execution found

More vulnerabilities related to H2 connection strings were discovered, and patched. If you are on version 0.43 of Metabase or later, please upgrade IMMEDIATELY.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Please upgrade your Metabase immediately Image Jul 20, 2023 in News

Please upgrade your Metabase immediately

We've patched a severe vulnerability uncovered by a third-party security researcher.

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 2 min read

The two most important business metrics to track Image Jul 07, 2023 in Analytics & BI

The two most important business metrics to track

Effective metrics are not a one-size-fits-all solution. Here's how to create a useful North Star metric and counter metric to start building out your metrics store.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

How to improve data literacy Image May 26, 2023 in Analytics & BI

How to improve data literacy

Proven methods and resources to help everyone use data in their everyday tasks.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

You don't need a data warehouse Image May 18, 2023 in Analytics & BI

You don't need a data warehouse

Start querying your production database as soon as possible, because the best way to model your data warehouse is to prototype it in real life.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

The hidden costs of the data stack Image May 12, 2023 in Data explorations

The hidden costs of the data stack

An incomplete list of the less obvious costs associated with maintaining a data stack, and some things you can do to keep those costs under control.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 9 min read

4 steps to turn your support tickets into an automated dashboard Image May 05, 2023 in Analytics & BI

4 steps to turn your support tickets into an automated dashboard

Using Zendesk, Freshdesk, or any other ticketing system? You can start labeling your support tickets for content analysis, and view the results in a support dashboard.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 6 min read

How to create and analyze an NPS survey the right way Image Apr 20, 2023 in Analytics & BI

How to create and analyze an NPS survey the right way

NPS survey data can hold the keys to customer success, but you have to ask the right questions to get the best results.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 6 min read

Automating growth and customer insights in SaaS businesses Image Mar 06, 2023 in Analytics & BI

Automating growth and customer insights in SaaS businesses

How a modern data stack can help you improve your customer journey and grow your revenue.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

Why interactive embedding? Image Dec 15, 2022 in Using Metabase

Why interactive embedding?

If you want to offer customer analytics, you want interactive embedding.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 7 min read

Bus factor of top GitHub projects Image Nov 14, 2022 in Data explorations

Bus factor of top GitHub projects

What is the bus factor for the top one thousand GitHub repositories with the most stars?

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

Why Metabase Cloud? Image Oct 26, 2022 in Using Metabase

Why Metabase Cloud?

What you get with Metabase Cloud, and why it's a good deal.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 8 min read

Halloween Edition: Data Horror stories in startups Image Oct 21, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Halloween Edition: Data Horror stories in startups

We talked with Amogh Sarda and Ali Baghshomali about common horror data stories in startups and how to avoid them. Read on to learn about the best practices for establishing product events management and upscaling from spreadsheets to the BI.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 8 min read

The data guide to travel Image Oct 04, 2022 in Data explorations

The data guide to travel

We scraped some data from Google Maps to find out what the top attractions are in the world’s most visited destinations.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

How Metabase uses Metabase Image Sep 21, 2022 in Data explorations

How Metabase uses Metabase

Here at Metabase, we use Metabase internally, so we thought it'd be fun to use Metabase to see how we use Metabase.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Want to retire early? Save more money Image Aug 30, 2022 in Data explorations

Want to retire early? Save more money

Japan and Korea’s high average savings rates drive shorter times to reach financial independence.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

#jobs #jobs #jobs | Exploring trends in data jobs postings Image Aug 10, 2022 in Data explorations

#jobs #jobs #jobs | Exploring trends in data jobs postings

Building a dashboard using data from the dbt Slack to analyze how data jobs have been changing over time.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

Building a better data culture for your team Image Jul 26, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Building a better data culture for your team

What are the best ways to build a data-centric culture within an organization? TJ Muehleman and Krishnan Raghupathi are sharing their experience and advice on how to get started.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 12 min read

A product manager's guide to getting started with Metabase Image May 27, 2022 in Using Metabase

A product manager's guide to getting started with Metabase

You may have plenty of product management tools at your disposal, but really getting to know your product data and customers is still a challenge. Learn how Metabase can help your product team make smarter data-driven decisions without relying exclusively on event instrumentation.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

A marketer's guide to getting started with Metabase Image May 20, 2022 in Using Metabase

A marketer's guide to getting started with Metabase

Your marketing team moves fast, and doesn't have the time to spend weeks vetting and configuring an analytics tool. Learn how Metabase can help you level up those growth initiatives.

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Alexander Kinn

‧ 5 min read

Maintaining healthy skepticism toward your data Image May 19, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Maintaining healthy skepticism toward your data

Your data isn't infallible, but it takes practice to get comfortable interrogating that data when you get an unexpected result. Learn how you can hone your data intuition and keep cool in the face of fluctuating numbers.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Your chart has too many series: visualization tips for the non-analyst Image May 01, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Your chart has too many series: visualization tips for the non-analyst

Creating effective charts and dashboards isn't always intuitive for those outside the analyst bubble. We've pulled together some tips to help you make sure your data visualizations are the best they can be.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

Calculating LTV: are you doing it wrong? Image Apr 25, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Calculating LTV: are you doing it wrong?

You've heard that customer lifetime value (LTV) is an important metric, but how exactly are you supposed to know what formula to use? This article offers a simple LTV formula for SaaS companies, along with use cases for the metrics and common pitfalls people encounter when working with LTV.

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Bruno Bergher

‧ 7 min read

Metabase is SOC 2 Type 1 Compliant Image Mar 29, 2022 in News

Metabase is SOC 2 Type 1 Compliant

Metabase has always cared about data privacy, and today we’re proud to announce we're now SOC 2 Type 1 compliant.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

The perfect chart: choosing the right visualization for every scenario Image Feb 14, 2022 in Analytics & BI

The perfect chart: choosing the right visualization for every scenario

Data viz is all about communicating the right story. Line charts are a reliable standby, but it's good to have options. Read on for tips and examples about when to use scatterplots, progress bars, and more.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

Feb 01, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Avoiding analyst burnout: how to streamline ad hoc requests

Help your analysts avoid burnout with these tips for handling ad hoc analysis requests (hint: the answer lies in self-service analytics!).

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

Jan 04, 2022 in Analytics & BI

Business intelligence career paths

To the uninitiated, BI career paths may sound a lot alike. We've written up an explainer on the difference between the following common roles within data teams: data analyst, data scientist, BI developer, data engineer, and analytics engineer.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 8 min read

Dec 15, 2021 in Analytics & BI

From spreadsheets to business intelligence

Maybe you're a spreadsheet pro but find yourself increasingly curious about that mysterious world of business intelligence. When is it time to make the move to a BI platform?

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The Metabase Team

‧ 7 min read

Dec 13, 2021 in Analytics & BI

BI career path: How I became a data lead at AngelList Venture

No two data journeys are alike. We talked to Brandon Krull, Data Lead at AngelList Venture, about his path from chemistry to data engineering.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 4 min read

Nov 18, 2021 in Analytics & BI

SQL Cheatsheet: Five simple SQL commands to get started in data analytics

SQL cheatsheet for data exploration: discover five basic SQL commands and functions to get started with data analysis.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 10 min read

Nov 17, 2021 in News

Tools for building trust

Official Collections and Question Moderation help people find intelligence they can rely on.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Oct 08, 2021 in Analytics & BI

The 6 most common types of bias when working with data

When working with data your prejudices and prior beliefs can skew the way you reach to conclusion in several unexpected and elegant ways. Learn how to defend your reasoning.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 9 min read

Sep 30, 2021 in Analytics & BI

The Modern Data Stack (updated for 2021)

The Modern Data Stack (MDS) consists of a flexible set of technologies that help businesses store, manage, and learn from their data.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 7 min read

Mar 12, 2021 in News

An open call for article submissions

Calling all writers. We're looking for people who want to write articles about business intelligence, data analytics, and everything Metabase.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Dec 15, 2020 in News

Introducing Learn Metabase

We're excited to share this new site we've built to help teach you how to get the most out of Metabase.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Dec 01, 2020 in Using Metabase

How to run Metabase in production

We'll walk through the different ways you can run Metabase in production, and give some guidance on what to do next after you're up and running.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 5 min read

Oct 23, 2020 in News

An Enterprising Opening

We are unifying our OSS and Enterprise repositories, and making the Enterprise codebase publicly accessible

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Sep 14, 2020 in News

Announcing Metabase Cloud

We're launching Metabase Cloud

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Nov 21, 2019 in News

Upcoming changes to our translations policies

We're making things clearer, and raising our quality bar.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 2 min read

Jun 24, 2019 in News

Metabase 0.33 Preview - A query for your thoughts

We're overhauling our query builder and adding new features. We'd love your thoughts.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 2 min read

Apr 23, 2019 in News

They grow up so fast

Modular drivers and performance improvements

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The Metabase Team

‧ 3 min read

Sep 06, 2018 in News

Metabase in French and Norwegian

It's a two-for-one special this time

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Aug 20, 2018 in News

Metabase in Portuguese

It's um bom dia for you if Português is your language of choice.

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Aug 09, 2018 in News

Metabase en Español

Our first official translation is here at last

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The Metabase Team

‧ 1 min read

Jul 12, 2018 in News

Some things to know before trying out version 0.30

Lots is changing in 0.30, so here's how to prepare.

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Maz Ameli

‧ 3 min read

Feb 14, 2018 in Using Metabase

Power your Application analytics with Metabase

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 6 min read

Aug 21, 2017 in News

Want to provide a white labelled version of Metabase?

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 1 min read

Aug 17, 2017 in News

Help us provide Metabase in your language!

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 3 min read

Jul 27, 2017 in Using Metabase

We put questions inside your questions

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 4 min read

Jun 19, 2017 in Using Metabase

AWS Startups & Metabase

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 5 min read

Jan 16, 2017 in Analytics & BI

Bootstrap your Analytics in 1 hour or Less

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Tim Abraham

‧ 6 min read

Nov 30, 2016 in News

Announcing the Metabase Network

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 2 min read

Oct 19, 2016 in News

Come celebrate the Metabase project turning 1!

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 1 min read

Oct 11, 2016 in Using Metabase

The Metabase approach to Permissions

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 4 min read

Jun 20, 2016 in Using Metabase

Unfiltered Filter Excitement

Metabase now has dashboard-wide filters

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Maz Ameli

‧ 3 min read

Mar 14, 2016 in Analytics & BI

Institutional Memory

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 8 min read

Mar 10, 2016 in Analytics & BI

Microservices considered harmful

Sameer Al-Sakran Portrait
Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 4 min read

Mar 03, 2016 in Analytics & BI

Event Analytics Strategies

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Allen Gilliland

‧ 8 min read

Jan 09, 2016 in Analytics & BI

The 2015 Analytics Software Market

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 8 min read

Jan 03, 2016 in Analytics & BI

Analytics rumblings in the public markets in 2015

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 5 min read

Oct 21, 2015 in News

Unveiling Metabase

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Sameer Al-Sakran

‧ 2 min read

Releases

Jan 2024

Metabase 48

Metabase 48 gives you complete visibility into who's doing what in your Metabase, plus a bunch of dashboard and search improvements, and things to make your day-to-day life in Metabase better.

Sep 2023

Metabase 47

Metabase 47 has got something in it for everyone: CSV uploads, PDF downloads, searching, serialization, and everything in between.

Mar 2023

Metabase 46

Metabase 46 brings a host of new features to make your day-to-day experience even better, including actions, improved support for MongoDB, optimized sync and fingerprinting, and more.

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Releases

Jan 2024

Metabase 48

Metabase 48 gives you complete visibility into who's doing what in your Metabase, plus a bunch of dashboard and search improvements, and things to make your day-to-day life in Metabase better.

Sep 2023

Metabase 47

Metabase 47 has got something in it for everyone: CSV uploads, PDF downloads, searching, serialization, and everything in between.

Mar 2023

Metabase 46

Metabase 46 brings a host of new features to make your day-to-day experience even better, including actions, improved support for MongoDB, optimized sync and fingerprinting, and more.

See more