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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 app performance

On the Elastic Beanstalk dashboard, we can see the overall health of our environment. Most of the time it should have the green checkmark, as in Figure 2.11. If you deploy using the smaller t2.micro EC2 instances, it may occasionally be in the Warning state (although I've noticed the actual app works fine in those cases):

Figure 2.12 -

Figure 2.12 -

In addition to the overall health check, we can drill into specific performance-related statistics around the resources we've deployed. Let's learn how to do that.

From the Elastic Beanstalk dashboard, click Monitoring on the left rail. This will bring up the performance monitoring overview, where you can view several high-level statistics about your app.

Rather than going over all the statistics presented on the dashboard, let's just learn how to create a chart of the average NetworkOut for our EC2 Instances. Recall that in the Scaling Triggers section of our environment...