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Metabase Up and Running

By : Tim Abraham
Book Image

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)
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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
12
Section 3: Advanced Functionality and Paid Features

Summary

In this chapter, we learned best practices for deploying Metabase using AWS. We learned how to sign up for a free AWS account and create both root and IAM users to log in with. We created a VPC with the necessary network setup for our application to exist in. Finally, we deployed Metabase using best practices for scalability, availability, cost, logging, and health monitoring.

In other words, we covered a lot in this chapter. If you came into it with no knowledge of AWS, you may feel overwhelmed by all the information covered. If you feel that way, do not worry! Deploying Metabase is a lot more complicated than using it, especially for people with backgrounds in analytics. If you have gotten this far, congratulations! Now we'll get to the fun part, where we will actually set up Metabase to work with our data. We will be covering all of that in the next chapter.