“This start of the week Metabase disclosed that its Cloud service was hit through a 0 day which can give an attacker admin access and potentially expose connected database credentials and the data behind them. Metabase is used across a pretty interesting group of fintech and crypto companies too like Revolut, Privy (Stripe company), Yellow Card etc.”
“Run container version for free and create all the accounts my company needs for free. It was not possible to share my Power BI dashboards unless they had licenses.”
“Metabase can work fine, but the tool is rarely the hard part. The hard part is getting one consistent model for "revenue," "pipeline," "CAC/ROAS," attribution windows, and experiment start dates across Stripe, HubSpot, and ad platforms.”
“Metabase is only fit for basic data analysis and visualization. Other than being complex, it offers few options for visualizing data. Consider going for a BI tool with a wider variety of visualization options.”
“I use Metabase a lot for dashboards, but I got tired of constantly switching tabs to copy-paste schemas or query results into Claude to make sense of them.”
“In my experience metabase has just the bare minimum of viz options, if that. I don't really see how they could be less complex given it's little more than axis selection and a couple cosmetic options for bar and line charts.”
“I wouldn’t say they do a bad job per se, it is just more adaptable to one’s needs. It sounds like you want a leaner approach, which can also be done with Metabase btw.”
“But the use cases are different: Metabase is feature-rich and has lots of functionality for self-serve that allows non-technical users to easily build their own dashboards and drill down as they please. With Shaper you define everything as code in SQL.”
“It’s a lot cleaner than a raw BI tool and works well for simple client dashboards or “stats-as-a-service,” without the clunkiness of Metabase. You can also white-label or embed it pretty easily.”
“metabase wins on ease of setup and the visual query builder is genuinely good for people who don't write SQL. you can have it running in like 20 minutes. the question builder covers maybe 70-80% of what most business users need.”
“It’s great for internal dashboards and quick customer access, but starts to feel clunky once you care about UX, permissions, and embedding deeply.For customer-facing analytics, we eventually leaned toward building thin custom views on top of a metrics API / warehouse.”
“I am curious what you guys use for customer facing analytics. Do you make your own or do you use something like Metabase? What do you like and don't like about it?”
“I’m sharing a complete analytics project built with Metabase, focused on sales performance, profitability, and inventory monitoring for a fictional toy store chain operating across multiple cities in Mexico.”
“But, as I said, we are enjoying the ease of use of Metabase and if I had to choose between "complicated and easy" and "sophisticated and difficult", I'd go for the former for my team.”
“Metabase is a solid choice, too, especially if you want a more straightforward approach. Balancing both tools could offer flexibility and depth for your team.”
“Metabase can absolutely work for this, as long as you treat it as the *visualization layer* and not the whole BI stack. For self-serve across revenue + marketing, the real unlock is getting all the raw data into one warehouse with consistent modeling first.”
“one surprise was how quickly teams liked metabase for internal questions, the painful part was trying to turn it into a customer portal so in the end we left that job to an embedded layer in embeddable and kept open source for internal work where it shines more.”
“\- Metabase: Cheap, easy to set up, good interactivity, and a great fit for startups. If you’re at a startup with roughly 20-30 marketing users, Metabase is pretty much ideal.”
“Metabase is solid, but StyleBI tends to offer more control when datasets start getting messy or when attribution logic changes week to week. If you’re expecting rapid experimentation and shifting KPIs, it’s an alternative to consider.”
“We were in a similar spot at our startup, ran Metabase on top of Postgres, it was fine for basic rev dashboards but non-data team didnt really use it so everything still came through ad-hoc requests”
“Metabase works fine for this as long as you keep the warehouse layer clean. For a scaleup, the bigger win is getting all those sources modeled in a way the business can actually trust, and Metabase is pretty solid once the tables are tidy.”
“Metabase is great for quick wins, simple setup, clean UI, solid for teams with light SQL skills. But it falls short once you need complex joins, row-level security, or dashboard interactivity beyond filters.”
“I love using metabase, I self host it also. I have it monitoring AWS events, it has a cool feature that will build the dashboard for you with all the graphs and such so it saves a lot of time”
“I run crowdsec as a Home Assistant add-on and there is also a Metabase add-on. How do I connect Metabase to crowdsec's DB? As in what type of DB is it and where do I find the credentials?”