As a marketing professional you probably use a whole slew of different tools to track the success of initiatives like ad buys, social campaigns, or website updates. And while you’ve fine-tuned that array of platforms and disparate datasets as best you can, you still run...
If you’re not someone who spends their days knee-deep in data, it can be easy to operate under the assumption that those numbers you see on a chart or dashboards are infallible and would never steer you wrong. The more familiar you get with that...
Making you feel like a fearless explorer is the theme of Metabase 0.43. We’ve made a bunch of improvements to help you stay organized, keep track of your work, and find new areas to explore. If you’re hosted on Metabase Cloud, we’ll be rolling these...
While data visualization and dashboard creation traditionally fall under the purview of data analysts or BI developers, the world of self-service analytics means that everyone — non-analysts included — gets to take a stab at exploring data and creating charts of their own. With that...
What is customer LTV? Despite the intimidating number of ways that you can calculate lifetime value (LTV, sometimes called customer lifetime value and abbreviated as CLTV or CLV), they’re all trying to get you the same result: the average total that a customer will spend...
Metabase has always cared about data privacy. When we originally designed Metabase, we took great care to never see anyone’s data. We took the same privacy-first approach when developing Metabase Cloud, and we’re now proud to say our efforts have been validated by third-party auditors....
To reach its full potential, data must make sense to more than just the pros. And unless you can see the image in one of those green and glittering Matrix screens, chances are you’ll benefit from a clear and attractive chart. Data visualization techniques convert...
Metabase v0.42 brings models — a whole new way to make exploring data easy for everyone. The release also includes a new main navigation, redesigned collections, and a lot of other cleanup work and quality-of-life improvements. If you’re hosted on Metabase Cloud, you’ll be getting...
The goal of business intelligence is to give stakeholders and strategists the information they need to make data-driven decisions. BI analysts can answer questions that help guide some of these decisions, but often someone at your organization will need to perform fast analytics using a...
In this post we’ll take a look at some common roles within data teams and what it takes to get them. Businesses structure their data teams differently — there’s no one-size-fits-all structure or org chart that will map to every organization out there. While it’s...
If you’re used to working exclusively in the world of Excel, Google Sheets, or Libreoffice Calc, you may wonder what the point of a business intelligence platform is. Spreadsheets are everywhere for a reason — they’re familiar and efficient — and serve a purpose even...
From python hackers to “sexiest job of the 21st Century”, working with data has come a long way. Breaking into data today looks different than it did even a few years ago—and the field is showing no signs of slowing down. Data is everywhere and...
We built Metabase so you can explore and learn from data without needing to know SQL. But sometimes, when you’re wrangling a big, complicated question, a little bit of SQL can go a long way. So we’ve collected 5 SQL commands and functions for your...
One of the things that happens when you roll out Metabase to your organization is that people start asking a lot of questions. This is a good thing. You want to cultivate a data-driven culture, which means you need to give people the tools to...
You’re trying to make a good decision, and decide to take a look at your data to help you make your call. You’ve got everything you need to feel confident, and move forward feeling invincible—after all, your data backs you up. But then, things don’t...
We’re back with another big update to Metabase! If you’re hosted on Metabase Cloud, we’ll be rolling these new features automatically throughout this week. If you’re self-hosting, you (or your administrator) can update to the latest version by following the instructions here. Tired of manual...
Cloud, open-source, and SaaS business models have transformed the software industry and the way that companies think about and build their products. Today, we can set up an entire technology stack in a fraction of the time and cost than before. And it’s no surprise...
We’re back with another big update to Metabase. Here’s what’s new. Dashboards just got a lot easier to build We’ve outfitted the dashboard editing mode with two major upgrades: A new and improved way to add questions to your dashboards Up until now, you’ve only...
Metabase’s interface tries to stay out of your way to help bring your data to the forefront. This laid-back approach means that sometimes features can take time to discover, so we put together a list of some features you may not be taking advantage of...
Metabase 0.39 brings better search, upgraded custom expressions, and ships with a boatload of other polish and improvements. Finding questions and dashboards just got a lot easier The big news for 0.39 is our much-improved search: we’ve added typeahead, fuzzy search, and more. Searches now...
Interested in writing for Metabase? We’re opening up a call for articles for Learn Metabase and our blog. What this is about Metabase is open source software, and the more people who use Metabase, the better it gets — more developers contributing code, more people...
Metabase 0.38 brings two new visualization types to the table, allows you to subscribe to a dashboard via email or Slack, and revamps navigation for collections to make it easier to find and organize your questions and dashboards. You can head over to our upgrade...
Ever since Metabase launched, one of our primary aims was to cultivate a helpful, encouraging, and knowledgeable community around the product. Our discussion forum, GitHub community, and even Twitter have become places where you’ve helped and inspired each other, and where we’ve done our best...
There are two editions of Metabase: Open Source and Enterprise. And there are two basic ways to run them in production: Metabase Cloud, which is the simplest route. Self-hosting, either on-prem or using a third-party cloud provider. We’ll walk through the advantages and tradeoffs of...
Metabase 0.37 is here. Head over to our upgrade page if you’re ready, or spin up a new instance to check Metabase out. And if you don’t want to do the upgrading yourself, you can always give Metabase Cloud a look. Interactive dashboards Metabase 0.37...
We are making the Enterprise Edition of Metabase source available. It’s now been a little over a year since we announced a commercial version of Metabase. Over the past year, we’ve learned a lot about how to run an OpenCore business, as well as how...
We’re offering Metabase as a service! Ever since we launched Metabase, people have been asking us for a hosted version. We’ve always focused on creating an open source application that is easy to install, maintain, and upgrade for anyone who needs charting or dashboards. But...
Metabase version 0.36 marks another big release from the Metabase team, with help as always from our contributors and the community. If you’re ready to get going, you can start with our upgrade guide, or read on to learn what’s new. New features and improvements...
Hi, everyone. We hope that all of you are staying healthy and safe. We wanted to let you know that we’ve got another big release for you with a bunch of new features and enhancements that should help make it even easier to ask your...
We decided to sneak in a stocking stuffer here towards the end of the year. As always you can read the upgrade guide if you’re ready to get going, but for a bit more on the changes this time around read on below. Showing values...
Since we started offering Metabase in different languages over a year ago, translated by the open source community, we have been blown away by the amount of involvement we have seen. Our translation project on POEditor currently has more than 500 contributors(!), and there are...
Those of you who have been with us for a while have known that a lot has changed in Metabase over the years. We’ve added collections, new dashboard features, embedding, permissions, and a whole lot more. But one specific piece of Metabase, the query builder,...
One of our strengths at Metabase has been getting you to a pretty simple chart on your own without having to know (or use) SQL. But simplicity can only take you so far. Every time we’ve added new features to our trusty query builder, it’s...
TL;DR: Metabase raised a Series-A and now has an Enterprise Edition It’s been just over 3 years since we launched in 2015 with another TL;DR of “Open Source Business Intelligence. Installs in 5 minutes, usable by everyone in your company”. Since then, we’ve been starred...
Hello! We’re blogging again so it must be time for a Metabase release. It’s been a while since we’ve seen you all, but that’s because we’ve been down in the basement shoring up some foundational elements of Metabase to make it more reliable and easier...
Metabase 0.31 After our big update to collections in 0.30 we wanted to get back to basics (or at least basics for us) and work on improving some of our visualization landscape. What came out of that was a version of Metabase worthy of bumping...
The translations just keep coming! Metabase is already available in Spanish and Portuguese, and with the release of version 0.30.2 we’re happy to announce that French and Norwegian are available as well! For the French translation, you can join us in thanking users Fabrice Etanchaud,...
Earlier this month we announced that Metabase had been translated into Spanish, and also told you about the new way that people in the Metabase community can contribute to translating the product into other languages. Well, the Metabase community is amazing, and we already have...
We’ve been so excited to see how far Metabase has spread across the globe, and it’s been very clear for a while now that Metabase has lots of users whose preferred language isn’t English. Last year we announced our intentions to make Metabase translatable, and...
When we first hit the “Open Source” button on Metabase nearly two and a half years ago, few of us on the team could have imagined exactly where this project would go. We figured we’d get some traction with small startups or non-profits and try...
For the past couple of months we’ve been working hard on changes to Metabase that will hopefully make your life much easier, but it also means lots about Metabase has changed. Here are some highlights of what’s different, and some important things you should know...
Metabase 0.29 - The Bots of Summer Summer’s peeking its head around the corner, and at least for us here in the Metabase HQ hemisphere, we’re looking out the window wishing we had a few less menial data tasks to do. In pursuit of automating...
TL;DR Embed Metabase dashboards in your application to easily provide analytics to your users and iterate faster. Users expect increasingly sophisticated analytics and reporting as part of any application. Whether you are building a SaaS CRM application, an online video site or a blogging site,...
How’s 2018 been for you so far? Good we hope. It’s certainly been busy here at the proverbial Meta base, and as such we’ve got either an extremely early Valentine’s Day or an extremely late holiday gift for you. What we know for certain is...
Just in time for the holidays, Metabase 0.27 is here with one much-requested feature, an upgrade to X-rays, and more. At Metabase, nothing puts us in a festive mood quite like conditional alerts and automated machine-learning-based time series insights. Alerts! Alerts are here at last....
Metabase 0.26 Just like it’s taboo to wear white after Labor Day, it’s also taboo to have Metabase still be at version 0.25 after Labor Day, so we decided we’d better get on that and release a new version. We also made some really cool...
Since we’ve publicized our contact form, one of the most common requests has been to offer some form of a white labled version of Metabase. We listened and have built a version that we hope lets you combine the power, ease of use and ease...
Overview The Metabase project has a lot of users for whom English is not a first language. There are also a lot more potential users who would be able to use Metabase if it provided an interface in their native language. However, the team has...
The Metabase query builder lets you run simple queries on a single table in your database. Within this fundamental idiom, we’ve added the ability to pull in information from tables linked by Foreign Keys, modify the columns, and create new columns based on mathematical expressions....
It’s summer in the Metabase hemisphere, which means we have a crisp and refreshing new release for you. Perfect for porch sitting, firefly catching, and also data analysis because that’s probably what you actually do with Metabase. You can download the latest version here. If...
If you spend any time reading hacker news, analytics and business intelligence tends to take on very complex overtones. Big Data. Stream Processing. Real Time. Machine Learning to learn your Machine Learning parameters. Meanwhile, everyone else’s engineering blogs are giving you all the details about...
This is a particularly big release, as we’ve shipped a number of features the team has been wanting for years. One of Metabase’s primary goals has been to allow people who understand their data, but not necessarily SQL or even how to formulate questions, to...
Metabase was originally built around collaboration. It came from a need to share common database queries, pass reports around and generally have non-technical members of a team figure out common questions on their own. For the past year or so, we’ve mostly ignored the other...
Data is well understood to be critical to any company’s success. Ironically, many startups tend to shy away from analytics — especially early on. I believe this partially stems from a myth that if you want to have analytics you should carve out around 25%...
Collections We’ve added a new way to organize your questions. You can now create groups of questions called Collections. You can save questions in a given collection, move them around and archive entire collections once you are done with them. Collection Permissions Once you’ve grouped...
Google Analytics Driver We’re big fans of Google Analytics at Metabase and find that a great many people use it for behavior analytics while using Metabase for analysing their the information in their database. We’ve added a (relatively experimental) driver that allows you to pull...
We're leaving this post up for posterity but note that we no longer offer this service. Tl;DR - If you're a developer, DBA or analyst looking for contract work from our users sign up here. Analytics is complicated. Metabase makes asking questions, setting up dashboards...
Last year on October 21st, we released Metabase into the wild. Since then, we’ve shipped 9 major versions, had 38 contributors, 3.5k stars on github, and over 100k downloads. Companies large and small are using us in 110 countries across the world. The team is...
In the beginning, all was peace and love. Then the barbarians showed up at the gate So we built a fence But we still want peace and love inside the fence The Metabase project has had an interesting relationship with permissions and access controls. We’ve...
Data access permissions A way to control access to sensitive data has been one of the most requested features since we launched. With 0.20, we’ve taken the first major step in giving you the ability to lock down an instance. We now allow you to...
“So quick bright things come to confusion.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream It’s mid-Summer where we are, and if you’re dealing with analytics on a daily basis, confusion is probably the order of the day. In this release, we’ll give you tools to at...
One feature we’re especially excited to be including in the latest version of Metabase is dashboard-wide filters. If you’ve been using Metabase since the early days, then you are a cool person who probably knows where to find the best sushi and whatnot. But also,...
Summer is here! That means it’s time to break out the sandals, fire up the grill, stock up on sunscreen and upgrade to the latest version of Metabase. In this month’s installment, we bring you lots of features that will make you the star of...
If you’ve been spending time using Metabase and are starting to get itchy about doing some house keeping, we have just the thing. Our newest release gives you tools for organizing the reports and questions, as well as reducing the number of situations you need...
It’s that time again. In keeping with our commitment to give you new presents once a month, your friendly neighborhood Metabase team is excited to present you with… Fullscreen (and fabulous) dashboards Dashboards have gotten a major overhaul to make them easier to read, better...
While a little exaggerated, anyone who’s been involved with analytics in any capacity will have some story that pretty closely matches the above story. While few people talk about it, Institutional Memory, or more typically Institutional Alzheimer’s, is one of the biggest ongoing problems in...
There’s a lot of hype around microservices, and monolith-bashing seems to be all the rage on HackerNews and Reddit. It’s good to hear DHH bringing some sanity back into the conversation. Large companies often have very good reason to aggressively break up applications into Centi,...
Overview So you want to do event analytics — awesome! This document provides some basic things you should know. There are a few sections to read, as follows: General strategies for implementing event analytics. Describes three high-level options to consider. The anatomy of an event analytics...
Continuing Metabase’s proud quadrennial tradition of releasing a version on Feb 29th, we bring you v0.15! In this release, like in our previous releases, we listened to what you, our community, asked for. Multi-series Charting This is the big one in the batch, with over...
A new version of Metabase is out! See our release notes below. Features / Enhancements Segments - the ability to store and reuse filter definitions Metrics - the ability to store and reuse aggregation definitions Improved support for table namespaces (schemas) in databases that use...
The 2015 Analytics Software Market Now that the books have closed on 2015, it’s time to look back and take in some of the changes in the analytics software market. There have been several trends (open source, cloud hosting, SQL on Hadoop) that have continued...
While through Q2, things seemed very rosey in the public markets for most analytics companies, the overall rumblings in the tech market put a damper on valuations to close out 2015. There are a number of management teams that are no doubt glad the year...
Hot off the presses, and just in time for the holidays, version 0.13 of Metabase is ready! The reaction to our initial release surprised and delighted us and we want to let you know we’ve been listening to your feedback and requests. The elves have...
TL;DR: Open Source Business Intelligence. Installs in 5 minutes, usable by everyone in your company, download it here. At some point, you get tired of rewriting the same system at every job. You ask around, and it seems like everyone else has written one too....