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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

Quick launch on Elastic Beanstalk

Let's learn how to quickly launch Metabase on Elastic Beanstalk. These are the absolute minimum number of steps needed:

  1. After you sign in to the AWS Management Console as the root user, open a new browser tab, and visit .
  2. Halfway down the page, you will find a link in purple font reading Launch Metabase on Elastic Beanstalk. Click this link.
  3. Your browser will redirect you to the AWS console with a prompt to Create a Web App. Note that if you were in any other region than Northern Virginia up to this point, clicking this link will change your default region to Northern Virginia.

Many of the fields in the Create a web app form will be pre-populated:

  1. The Application Name field should be populated with Metabase.
  2. The Environment Name field should read Metabase-env.
  3. The Platform section as of this writing will have the platform set as Docker, the Platform Branch set as Docker running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2...
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