“IMHO Metabase is too complex for end users: too much "code" (queries) to write and very limited in the presentation layer (widgets users can use to show the results).I was thinking of something closer to Power BI, e.”
“I think that’s a very good idea, so thanks.The main thing keeping me from switching is that Metabase’s query builder and visualizations are too good for 95% of my work. It’s hard to picture going back to writing _all_ the SQL.”
“I’d advise metabase over superset.Superset looked good, but operating superset quickly runs into the same Python issues all Python software suffers from.Sometimes it would just break for no apparent reason.”
“Metabase 47 also has new serialization features in paid editions that allow for git-based workflows. https://www.metabase.com/learn/administration/git-based-work...”
“I recently rolled out Metabase to a group of semi-technical product managers and found that the majority of them could accomplish what they wanted without any SQL skills at all.”
“Metabase is an adequete free option if you host yourself. Ends up not really being very feature complete -- alerting is limited; no mobile experience; limited collaboration capabilities; frequent timeouts.”
“Metabase lacks most proper visualization options but is great for most basic level report generation (specifically when you want employees other than BI dept using it) and also best in performing sql queries (my opinion).”
“Have built multiple visualizations using Metabase and if you are good with SQL as mentioned, most of your work is done. Customers wanting multiple custom reports were pushed to Metabase thus keeping standard metrics on the main app and people paying for custom reports getting it thru Metabase.”
“However, depending on the use case, a lightweight and capable tool like Metabase might be all that you need. The interface is seamless and quick, and the added benefit of being able to write SQL queries is often desirable for technical audiences.”
“One of the better decisions we took at my firm was to not allow direct access to any production DB to analytics visualization tools like Metabase and Redash.Always write your analytics data to a separate DB in a periodically run job.”
“The container has access to whatever database you connect metabase to for BI. If the db connection credentials are available to the container, it's possible a malicious actor could access your prod db.”
“Perhaps a naive question, but if running metabase within a docker container, what permissions would this RCE have? AFAIK the container has network access and access to the mounted volumes and that's it right?”
“> Extremely severe. An unauthenticated attacker can run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the Metabase server on the server you are running Metabase on.Java deserialization strikes another one down, I assume?”
“It would be nice to know if this vulnerability affects people who never made their Metabase installations publicly accessible.Aka if I am running Metabase locally.”
“Is anyone knows how to share a dashboards via public links or public embeds in metabase. I enabled sharing options but link is generated is for local host (localhost:3000) which doesn't work when I share it with other users who don't have metabase. How to sort this ?”
“I met someone writing an app-script to connect to their API to feed some interactive google sheets to help with retail operations. It was bootstrapped as hell but super functional and free.”
“Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “most impressed” moments in the industry so far. I highly recommend it for absolutely anyone using SQL as their source of truth.”
“My organisation is considering migrating from Metabase to Tooljet.What are the known edge-cases Tooljet fails to address in the context of Enterprise use-cases?”
“You can then simply point Metabase (or any other DB visualization tool) at it using the standard Postgres setup.1 - https://steampipe.io/docs/using-steampipe/service”
“More like a conjunction of notion and metabase, I often use metabase and always want to write and share posts with synced data charts. Tellery looks like a solution for this.”
“Metabase’s free version supports Google login and no others — it works okay, but any further login federation requires stepping up to the enterprise version (at least for self-hosted).”
“I gave it a shot at my company, but we ended up using Redash. The UX for business people was much better on Redash.We've considered Metabase as well, but the lack of SSO login was a show stopper for us.”
“I like Metabase a lot, my org has a few people who were very accustomed to the filters in Tableau, so I had to buy some licenses, but Metabase is great, fast, and runs on very low end EC2 instances. Big kudos to the team that works on it.”
“We use Metabase right now and tried Superset. Took me an hour to figure out how to create a simple set of filters on a dashboard. They renamed things at some point so most online documentation no longer makes sense.”
“I’ve been using Metabase off and on in prod since 2016. I think you guys are really onto something and I love seeing Clojure in a popular OSS project. I know you guys just got some money; here’s my pitch to make it count: Metabase would be a lot more sticky if you provided a robust home for annotation and discussion.”