“In my experience, Metabase/Superset are “good enough” for ad-hoc charts and simple dashboards. The gap with Tableau/PBI/ThoughtSpot shows up in governance (real semantic layer, RLS/audits), distribution (email/bursting), mobile polish, and print/PDF fidelity.”
“Metabase has too many workarounds that come native in Power BI and Tableau. If you want to do basic dashboards with wysiwyg insights then go for Metabase.”
“UX does not seem to be a strong side of Metabase. I’ve recently started creating dashboards in Metabase, having used Grafana extensively, and it’s not very pleasant. Too bad Grafana has very limited options for not time-based visualizations.”
“The quick answer to your question is you'll miss native integrations with google (ex. search console, analytics etc.) but that can easily be fixed with fivetran”
“Making Metabase AI ready is helping me so much to get the results much faster, and I have also added a knowledge base option which makes results much more accurate.”
“I’d recommend extracting your GA data into a database or warehouse, then building your visualizations off that in Metabase. Let me know what part was a struggle and I'll see if I can share some more specific recommendations.”
“Metabase has dropped GA support with the release of GA4, and I'm not expecting them to support it in the future. Your best bet is to setup a BigQuery link to export/stream all your events to BigQuery and query that data from Metabase.”
“I haven't tried superset but metabase is completely usable with minimal SQL knowledge using their question mode, which is honestly much easier if you want to use their built in filter systems anyway. If you run into anything hard, GPT can give you guidance on how to set up advanced filtering, custom columns, etc in question mode.”
“Metabase is way simpler but fails at delivering more complex insights. Superset is powerful, hard to set up unless you get a solution by Preset and will be hard for non technical users to use.”
“Metabase is a BI tool focused on querying, reporting, and visualization, but it’s read-only. Mathesar is closer to Airtable, you get a spreadsheet-like UI, you can view and query data like Metabase, but you can also add and edit data or even modify the data model (if the permissions allow it).”
“make sure your MySQL database allows connections from the Metabase server and that the user has the right permissions. Double-check the connection details: hostname, port, database name, username, and password.”
“When metabase showed a version last year with AI, you could see right away without some knowledge of the data model your just grasping at writing the correct prompt.”
“Is there anyone who used Metabase before and could help me connecting a sql database to Metabase. I need that urgently for my end of studies project 😢🙏”
“I like never use reddit but I just wanted to say my company uses metabase and I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT. It is so f-ing annoying to use, loses my progress, unintuitive UX, it is a hindrance, not a tool. Only good thing about it is it's easy-ish to ask simple, quick questions but that's about it.”
“If you're not managing a complex semantic layer (some folks like tools like looker for example particularly for the modeling layer), don't need niche enterprise features, and don't need a ton of support, then Metabase will probably work great for you.”
“It has 'models' as sources of truth to build other queries in - eg a single definition of an 'active user'.In short, moving from Blazer to Metabase was a huge win for us. Highly recommend it if you need anything more than Blazer's table output.[0]: https://github.com/metabase/metabase”
“That's one feature Metabase has that I find essential -- if a number in a chart looks off (or you're just curious) you can drill into the row-level tabular data and figure out what's going on.”
“> Set up Metabase instead but...I've been trying to retire metabase but our non technical people love it too much. everyone from marketing to finance has dashboards and alerts and reports.”
“I have built several things like this over the years, and used other similar products like redash and metabase. This looks really nice, and has a lot of potential.”
“Mhmm this gives me an idea.. what if I could "group" metabase sql queries by "similarity" (either of results or of the query itself)Another option could be to use LLM to summarize, tag and group queries for better discoverability.”
“We use metabase heavily at work. However where it seems like all these tools fall down is organization around the hundreds of dashboards and questions. I wish it had like a built wiki or something to build out more navigation.”
“Why you need license for 1800 users? I am guessing some of them will be creators and rest of them will be consumers. For just take license for few users for creating and for rest just expose views as embeddings to them .In this way you can just take metabase license for say 30K or so”
“We have hit limitations with Metabase though. Performance of the instance can be a bit unpredictable and their support has been poor when things do go wrong, with very little willingness to take our feedback into account for new product features.”
“We have looked into metabase ourselves initially as well but found it lacking compared to Superset. What are your thoughts on that?Note that we build dashboards for customers that end up having some complex SQL directly in Superset.”
“Also, the issue is that with Metabase, I'm not sure you can white-label even for internal use only (every thread I read on their white labelling seems very vague or opaque regarding internal use).”
“I have been successful at using a combination of an internal tool with embedded Metabase dashboards. In my case, the internal tool was a basic web app that managed permissions including what the user has access to.”
“Have used and liked Metabase but def not worth paying 200k/y for. I would look into using something like Apache Superset (an open source alternative to Metabase that got its start at Airbnb).”
“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.”