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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

Monitoring costs on AWS

At any time, if you want to see how much of your free tier allotment you have used, you can do so in the Billing Dashboard. You can find it by clicking on your username in the AWS Management Console and selecting Billing Dashboard. However, because we did not give our metabase-admin IAM user permissions to view this, you will get a message explaining that you don't have permissions. Sign back in with your root user credentials.

On the Billing Dashboard, you can see multiple views of the costs your account is incurring. It is good to check on this, if you truly want to avoid spending any money. Sometimes you may forget to turn something off, or accidentally use a resource that's not on the free tier, and end up getting charged a few dollars at the end of the month. The easiest way to see what you have consumed and how much you have been charged for it is to click Bill details in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Remember that most enterprise...