v0.41 / Users Guide

User Guide

Some basics

• An overview of Metabase
• Basic exploration in Metabase
• Field types in Metabase
• Getting automatic insights with X-rays

Asking questions with the query builder

• Asking questions in Metabase
• Using the notebook editor to ask custom questions
• Writing custom expressions in the notebook editor
• Full list of expressions: aggregations and functions
• How to visualize the answers to questions
• Referencing saved question in queries

Saving questions in Collections

• Sharing and organizing your saved questions
• Collections

Dashboards

• Creating dashboards
• Adding filters to dashboards
• Making dashboards interactive
• Creating dashboard charts with multiple series

Setting up subscriptions and alerts

• Setting up dashboard subscriptions
• Setting and getting alerts
• Get answers in Slack with Metabot
• Using Pulses for daily emails

Writing SQL

• Using the SQL editor
• Referencing your data model while writing SQL
• Creating SQL Templates
• Using SQL snippets to reuse and share code

Your Metabase account settings

• Editing your account settings

Let’s get started with an overview of What Metabase does.