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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 the Metabase application

With our sizing decisions made, and our IAM user and VPC created, we can now configure and deploy our Metabase instance inside our new VPC. We'll get started by leaving AWS momentarily to visit :

  1. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where it reads Read about how to run Metabase on AWS, and click the AWS link.
  2. From there, click the Launch Metabase on Elastic Beanstalk link. You'll be redirected to the AWS console and prompted to create the web app.

Creating a web app in Elastic Beanstalk

Before we continue on the Create a web app page, let's get clarity on some confusing AWS terminology.

In Elastic Beanstalk, an application is defined as a "logical collection of components, including environments and configurations" and can be thought of as a folder. The actual running instance of Metabase, what we generally think of as "our application," is called an Environment in Elastic Beanstalk parlance...