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Metabase
Metabase is the easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Get started
The easiest way to get started with Metabase is to sign up for a free trial of Metabase Cloud. You get support, backups, upgrades, an SMTP server, SSL certificate, SoC2 Type 2 security auditing, and more (plus your money goes toward improving Metabase). Check out our quick overview of cloud vs self-hosting. If you need to, you can always switch to self-hosting Metabase at any time (or vice versa).
Features
- Set up in five minutes (we're not kidding).
- Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL.
- Use the SQL editor for more complex queries.
- Build handsome, interactive dashboards with filters, auto-refresh, fullscreen, and custom click behavior.
- Create models that clean up, annotate, and/or combine raw tables.
- Define canonical segments and metrics for your team to use.
- Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with dashboard subscriptions.
- Set up alerts to have Metabase notify you when your data changes.
- Embed charts and dashboards in your app, or even your entire Metabase.
Take a tour of Metabase.
Supported databases
Installation
Metabase can be run just about anywhere. Check out our Installation Guides.
Contributing
Quick Setup: Dev environment
In order to spin up a development environment, you need to start the front end and the backend as follows:
Frontend quick setup
The following command will install the Javascript dependencies:
$ yarn install
To build and run without watching changes:
$ yarn build
To build and run with hot-reload:
$ yarn build-hot
Backend quick setup
In order to run the backend, you'll need to build the drivers first, and then start the backend:
$ ./bin/build-drivers.sh
$ clojure -M:run
For a more detailed setup of a dev environment for Metabase, check out our Developers Guide.
Internationalization
We want Metabase to be available in as many languages as possible. See which translations are available and help contribute to internationalization using our project over at Crowdin. You can also check out our policies on translations.
Extending Metabase
Hit our Query API from Javascript to integrate analytics. Metabase enables your application to:
- Build moderation interfaces.
- Export subsets of your users to third party marketing automation software.
- Provide a custom customer lookup application for the people in your company.
Check out our guide, Working with the Metabase API.
Security Disclosure
See SECURITY.md for details.
License
This repository contains the source code for both the Open Source edition of Metabase, released under the AGPL, as well as the commercial editions of Metabase, which are released under the Metabase Commercial Software License.
See LICENSE.txt for details.
Unless otherwise noted, all files © 2025 Metabase, Inc.
Metabase Experts
If you’d like more technical resources to set up your data stack with Metabase, connect with a Metabase Expert.