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Metabase Up and Running

Metabase Up and Running

By : Abraham
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Metabase Up and Running

Metabase Up and Running

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By: 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)
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Section 1: Installing and Deploying Metabase
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Section 2: Setting Up Your Instance and Asking Questions of Your Data
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Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Troubleshooting your Metabase instance

In Metabase, as with any software product, issues can arise that prevent you from accomplishing what you set out to do. Fortunately, help is available. Your Metabase instance has a dedicated center for all things help related in the Admin Panel. Let's navigate there:

  1. Open up the Admin Panel.
  2. Click Troubleshooting, in the purple bar at the top of the page.

This will take you to the Troubleshooting section of the Admin Panel. You'll start on the Help page, which has links to resources for various help-related tasks:

  • Metabase Documentation: This is Metabase's own technical documentation. The Metabase team keeps this well maintained with each version release. We've referenced this technical documentation several times throughout the book, so you should be aware of this resource.
  • Post on the Metabase support forum: Clicking this takes you to Metabase's Discourse page, which is a forum hosted...
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