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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
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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

Creating an IAM user

When we deployed Metabase in the last section, we did so as the Root User. I mentioned that the root user has all the power and permissions, including deleting all your services and even your AWS account.

If you are working in an organization that already uses AWS today, don't expect to be given Root user access. The standard practice is to create accounts within AWS that let the user do only what they need to do. In this section, we'll learn how to create an account with the IAM service to use going forward for all things related to Metabase:

  1. In the AWS Management Console, click Services in the upper left-hand corner.
  2. A dropdown showing the 175+ services will appear. Rather than finding IAM manually, just type it in the search bar and select it, as in Figure 2.5:
    Figure 2.5 – Searching for the IAM service in the AWS console

    Figure 2.5 – Searching for the IAM service in the AWS console

  3. Within the IAM service, we will expand the Create individual IAM users dropdown and click Manage Users...