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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
Book Image

Metabase Up and Running

By: Tim Abraham

Overview of this book

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that helps you use data to answer questions about your business. This book will give you a detailed introduction to using Metabase in your organization to get the most value from your data. You’ll start by installing and setting up Metabase on your local computer. You’ll then progress to handling the administration aspect of Metabase by learning how to configure and deploy Metabase, manage accounts, and execute administrative tasks such as adding users and creating permissions and metadata. Complete with examples and detailed instructions, this book shows you how to create different visualizations, charts, and dashboards to gain insights from your data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to share the results with peers in your organization and cover production-related aspects such as embedding Metabase and auditing performance. Throughout the book, you’ll explore the entire data analytics process—from connecting your data sources, visualizing data, and creating dashboards through to daily reporting. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to implement Metabase as an integral tool in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
4
Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
12
Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Summary

In this final chapter, we learned about the advanced features of caching, embedding, and x-rays. These features can really help you get more out of Metabase. With the right cache settings, you can dramatically increase the speed and performance of your Metabase instance for all your users. With embedding, you can display questions and dashboards on external websites, opening up the power of Metabase to the public. With x-rays, you can also generate many insightful and useful questions with a single click of a button.

We then learned where to go for help. Sometimes, you can troubleshoot your issues by simply scanning log files in your own Metabase instance. Other times, you can find what you need in Metabase's technical documentation, their Discourse support forum, or in their GitHub. We learned more about how the project is maintained on GitHub, and how you can get involved with its development and shape the future of Metabase.