Lesson

Brand your Metabase

Use white label settings to change the application's name, color palette, logo, favicon, and home page. Incorporate your company's brand into your Metabase instance.

White label settings page
Application name
Color palette
Logo
Favicon
Home page
Sign in page
Learn about customization

With Metabase Enterprise Edition’s white labeling feature, you can customize your user interface. Read this article to learn how to personalize your Metabase instance, transforming it from figure 1 into figure 2.

Fig. 1. The clean, classic home page for Metabase without any white label changes.

Fig. 2. The Metabase home page with a modified logo, color palette, and home page location.

White label settings page

In Metabase Enterprise Edition, you can access the white label settings in Metabase Admin under the Settings tab.

Application name

Use the text box at the top of the white label settings to enter the name of your company. (We used “Your Company” as an example.) When you click away, your company name will be saved and distributed throughout the application. Anywhere the text “Metabase” appeared will now be replaced by your company’s name. Double check that your name saved by looking at left side of the nav bar; it now says “Your Company Admin” instead of “Metabase Admin”.

Fig. 3. The white label settings page with the application renamed to Your Company.

Color palette

You can change the application’s default colors in the color palette section. It has helpful descriptions beside each color swatch, so you know whether the swatch affects the site’s primary color, nav bar, query builder, buttons, or accents.

Click the color swatch you want to change. In the pop up, select a new color using your method of choice:

Drag the color selectors along the color and opacity gradients
Enter a hex number
Enter an RGBA number
Select a color swatch from the color palette provided

Fig. 4. Editing the color palette settings and navigating back to the Metabase home page to demonstrate the changes.

Logo

You can upload a company logo to replace the Metabase logo throughout the app. Figure 5 uses a PNG image as a replacement to the Metabase logo. Once uploaded, we return to the Metabase home page and confirm that the blue Metabase logo has been replaced by our new image.

Fig. 5. Uploading a logo and verifying that it appears on the Metabase home page.

Favicon

With an icon link, you can personalize the favicon that appears in your browser’s tab. In figure 6 you can see the Google favicon on the left tab and the Metabase favicon on the right tab.

Fig. 6. Examples of what favicons look like in Chrome tabs.

If you change your application name, but not your favicon, the favicon will remain the Metabase logo.

Home page

If you’ve been following along with the article, your home page will look like figure 7 with an altered application name, color palette, and logo. Users see this page when they first log in to your Metabase instance and whenever they press the home button on the far left of the navbar.

Fig. 7. Automatically generated home page with personalized greeting and x-ray suggestions based on data.

To change your home page, navigate to the question, x-ray, or dashboard that you want to be your new home page. Copy the route and paste it into the text area provided in white label settings.

For example, if the url of my desired home page is “http://localhost:3000/dashboard/3”, type “/dashboard/3”. When you exit the Admin Panel you’ll see that your home page now looks like figure 8 instead of figure 7.

Fig. 8. Newly selected home page: an x-ray of the Orders table.

With the example changes made to your application name, color palette, and logo, your login screen will look like figure 9. Your favicon will also appear on the browser tab of this page.

Fig. 9. Sign in page with first three changes applied: purple background, EX logo, and the text 'Sign in to Your Company.'

Learn about customization

Learn more about customizing your Metabase instance:

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