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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

Chapter 2: Deploying Metabase with AWS

Now that we have learned the simple way to deploy Metabase to the cloud, this chapter will focus on the official paved path for users who want to self-host. This path involves using Amazon Web Services, or AWS as I'll be referring to it going forward. For software, AWS can do just about everything – it is massively complex, and explaining it thoroughly would fill entire libraries. A full explanation of all AWS can offer is far beyond the scope of this book, and as such, this chapter's goal is to explain only the relevant parts of AWS in a gentle but thorough manner.

Readers with backgrounds in technical operations or experience with AWS may skip some of the sections in this chapter. However, many people interested in using Metabase have backgrounds in analytics but know very little about software development operations. For users such as these, this chapter will be extremely useful as I will gently but comprehensively explain...