Metabase documentation
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.
First steps
Metabase Cloud
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).
Installing Metabase
Run as a JAR, using Docker, or on Metabase Cloud.
Setting up Metabase
Once installed, set up your Metabase and connect to your data.
Getting started
With your data connected, get started asking questions, creating dashboards, and sharing your work.
A tour of Metabase
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.
Documentation topics
Metabase’s reference documentation.
Installation
- Installation overview
- Installing Metabase
- Upgrading Metabase
- Configuring the Metabase application database
- Backing up Metabase
- Migrating to a production application database
- Monitoring your Metabase
- Development instances
- Serialization
- Commands
- Supported browsers
- Privacy
- About the anonymous usage data we collect
Databases
- 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
Questions
Query builder
- The query editor
- Filtering
- Summarizing and grouping
- Custom expressions
- List of expressions
- Joining data
SQL and native queries
- The SQL editor
- SQL parameters
- Referencing models and saved questions
- Snippets
- Snippet folder permissions
Visualizing data
- Visualizing data
- Combo charts
- Detail
- Funnel charts
- Gauge charts
- Line, bar, and area charts
- Maps
- Numbers
- Pie or donut charts
- Pivot table
- Progress bar
- Sankey chart
- Scatterplot or bubble chart
- Table
- Tooltips
- Trend
- Waterfall chart
Dashboards
- Dashboards overview
- Introduction to dashboards
- Dashboard filters
- Interactive dashboards
- Charts with multiple series
- Dashboard subscriptions
- Actions on dashboards
Data modeling
- Data modeling overview
- Models
- Model persistence
- Metrics
- Table metadata admin settings
- Field types
- Formatting defaults
- Working with JSON
- Segments
Actions
Exploration and organization
- Organization overview
- Basic exploration
- Collections
- Keyboard shortcuts
- History
- Trash
- Data reference
- Events and timelines
- X-rays
- Content verification
People
- People overview
- Account settings
- Managing people and groups
- Password complexity
- Session expiration
- Google Sign-In
- LDAP
- API keys
Paid SSO options
Permissions
- Permissions overview
- Permissions introduction
- Data permissions
- Collection permissions
- Application permissions
- Data sandboxes
- Data sandbox examples
- Connection impersonation
- Database routing
- Snippets folder permissions
- Notification permissions
- Configuring permissions for embedding
Embedding
- Embedding overview
- Embedding introduction
- Interactive embedding
- Interactive embedding quick start
- Static embedding
- Parameters for static embeds
- Securing embedded Metabase
Configuration
- Configuration overview
- Setting up Metabase
- General settings
- Slack
- Webhooks
- Environment variables
- Configuration file
- Metabase log configuration
- Timezones
- Languages and localization
- Appearance
- Caching query results
- Custom maps
- Customizing the Metabase Jetty webserver
Tools
Metabase Cloud
Metabase API
Troubleshooting
Developer guide
Getting help
Troubleshooting
Tutorials and guides
Learn Metabase has a ton of articles on how to use Metabase, data best practices, and more.
More resources
Discussion
Share and connect with other Metabasers.
Community stories
Practical advice from our community.
Metabase blog
News, updates, and ideas.
Customers
Real companies, real data, real stories.
Metabase Twitter
We tweet stuff.
Source code repository on GitHub
Follow us on GitHub.
List of releases
A list of all Metabase releases, including both the Enterprise Edition and the Open Source Edition.
Developers guide
Contribute to the Metabase open source project!
Data and Business Intelligence Glossary
Data jargon explained.
Metabase Experts
If you’d like more technical resources to set up your data stack with Metabase, connect with a Metabase Expert.
Read docs for other versions of Metabase.