Metabase

Open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics.

4.9•24 reviews•

826 followers

Open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics.

4.9•24 reviews•

826 followers

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Metabase is the easy-to-use, open source Business Intelligence tool that lets everyone work with data, with or without SQL. Make self-service analytics finally happen in your org, or embed Metabase in your app for customer-facing analytics.

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The community submitted 24 reviews to tell us what they like about Metabase, what Metabase can do better, and more.

4.9

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Reviewers mostly praise Metabase for being easy to set up, intuitive, and useful for both technical and non-technical teams. They say it helps people explore data, build dashboards, share insights across departments, and even embed analytics into products without relying heavily on SQL. Several also value the open-source, self-hosted setup. The main complaints are narrower but consistent: exporting and dashboard customization can be awkward, email and PDF exports have limits, and some users want better documentation, query transparency, KPI glossary support, and more native integrations.

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easy setup (2)

intuitive UI (2)

no SQL required (2)

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What's great

easy setup (2)intuitive UI (2)no SQL required (2)

I like Metabase, we've used it in the company I worked at for a while, and as a BI analyst I get most of my day-to-day tasks done there. As a non-technical user it saves lots of time as I don't rely on devs for SQL and tasks that would otherwise take much time (e.g. visualization), are done quicker. It is also great for cross-departmental communication.

What needs improvement

data visualization (1)

Despite its growth and (I would assume) huge budgets going into understanding what their customers really want, the exporting dashboards and their customization elements are very hard to navigate. What I mean is that, just like everything else is optimized for simplicity, so should data visualization be as well. Perhaps a tool that you can have a look at that does a great job and is similar to Metabase is TalkBI. You simply click on one button and poof - report is made. Other than that, perhaps it would be possible to review the SQL generated by Metabase so we can help improve its effectiveness for more complex queries.

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27 views3mo ago

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Metabase is an open-source browser-based BI software that works with many databases including mySQL Mariadb etc. It can be self-hosted so I installed it on-premise for my small company. Its features are relatively simple, but it is easy for a non proficient user to write requests in the tables even without knowledge of SQL or programming language. It is also easy to share and assign data with the team. The weak point of the software is when you export your data, currently emailing doesn’t work well and PDF has limitations. (V0.48). But overall great and useful software for data analysis.

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Metabase has become indispensable to our product workflow at Slytrunk. It is powerful, flexible and reliable, and I would recommend it to any founder without the tens of thousands to spend on Periscope or Domo. It requires some setup, and there is a learning curve, but it's IMO a great investment of time. One thing that could be improved is more product manager focused documentation with cookbooks for common queries, such as those commonly rolled out for Google Analytics (BigQuery).

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25 views3yr ago

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Metabase has been a game-changer for us! 🚀 Super easy to set up, intuitive UI, and the ability to explore data without writing SQL is a huge plus. The embedded analytics feature is especially powerful if you want to bring dashboards directly into your product. Big fan of the open-source flexibility too!

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open source (1)easy setup (2)intuitive UI (2)embedded analytics (1)no SQL required (2)

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5 views7mo ago

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Its features are relatively simple, but it is easy for a non proficient user to write requests in the tables even without knowledge of SQL or programming language. It is also easy to share and assign data with the team. The weak point of the software is when you export your data, currently emailing doesn’t work well and PDF has limitations.

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5 views10mo ago

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I use Metabase every day. It's an easy-to-use yet powerful analytics tool on top of our database. It simplifies data exploration and reporting for both technical and non-technical users. It would be even better if Metabase could add native integrations with product analytics tools like MixPanel to provide a truly centralized view of all metrics

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6 views1yr ago

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Extremely easy to set up even on your local machine for some quick-and-dirty BI – you don't need to use Excel to crunch the numbers or create charts. As a designer, I love the UI – simplicity and usability! Good job, Metabase.

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4 views12mo ago

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I deployed community edition to build our PoultryCare SaaS business insights. Easy to deploy, friendly to build, and enterprise grade as open-source. All wins :)

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5 views11mo ago