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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
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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

Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

As mentioned earlier, AWS configures a default VPC for you in each region when you create your account. You can also create your own VPC, which is exactly what we will learn to do in this section. Even if your organization already has an AWS account with a VPC configured, going through this section will still be a valuable learning experience. It will also help you understand what configuration changes may be necessary for your existing VPC to launch Metabase.

In this section, we'll learn how to create a VPC configured with the required network infrastructure for Metabase. Specifically, that means creating a VPC with two public subnets in two different availability zones, both with internet gateways in their routing table. We'll also learn what all this means, and why it's important. To get started, search for the VPC service in the AWS Management Console, just as we did with the IAM service. This will take you to the VPC Management...