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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)
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

Using a subdomain

At this point, our Metabase instance is hosted at a subdomain of elasticbeanstalk.com. It works just fine, and we could absolutely start handing it out to other people in our organization. However, many people prefer using a subdomain to host their Metabase instance. If your domain is mydomain.com, a subdomain is something like subdomain.mydomain.com. A common subdomain pattern I've seen people use for Metabase is metabase.mydomain.com, which is a lot easier to remember, shorter, and looks more official. With a subdomain, our Metabase instance will still live at the elasticbeanstalk.com URL, but our subdomain will act as an alias for that URL.

Let's learn how to use a subdomain and create an alias for it.

First, you will have to log in to your DNS provider. Once you are logged in to your DNS provider, you will want to create an ALIAS record. An ALIAS record simply lets you point a subdomain to an external domain name (the elasticbeanstalk.com domain...