title: Metabase documentation
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Getting started

• Getting started
• A tour of Metabase

Troubleshooting and getting help

• Troubleshooting guides
• Metabase forum
• Configuring logging

Tutorials and guides

• Learn Metabase has a ton of articles on how to use Metabase and level up as a data analyst.

Installation and operation

• Installing Metabase
• How to upgrade Metabase
• Application database
• Backing up Metabase
• Migrating to a production application database
• A word on Java versions
• How to setup monitoring via JMX
• Serialization: copying one Metabase instance to another
• Supported browsers
• Some info on privacy and GDPR

Asking questions

• Overview

Query builder

• Asking questions
• Custom expressions
• List of expressions: aggregations and functions
• Joining data

SQL and native queries

• The native SQL editor
• Viewing metadata
• SQL templates
• Using results to ask new questions
• SQL snippets
• SQL snippet folder permissions

Sharing

• Sharing answers
• Visualizing data
• Setting and getting alerts
• Public links

Dashboards

• Overview
• Creating dashboards
• Dashboard filters
• Interactive dashboards
• Dashboard charts with multiple series
• Setting up dashboard subscriptions

Data modeling

• Overview
• Models
• Metadata-editing
• Field types
• Default formatting
• Creating segments and metrics

Finding things and keeping organized

• Overview
• Basic exploration
• Collections
• Events and timelines

People and groups

• Overview
• Editing your account settings
• Managing people and groups
• Password complexity
• Session expiration
• Google Sign-In or LDAP

Paid SSO options

• JWT
• SAML
  • Auth0
  • Azure AD
  • Google
  • Keycloak
  • Okta

Permissions

• Overview
• Permissions introduction
• Data permissions
• Collection permissions
• Application permissions
• Sandboxing data based on user attributes
• SQL snippets folder permissions

Embedding questions and dashboards

• Overview
• Embedding introduction
• Signed embedding
• Full-app embedding
• Embedding example apps

Databases

• Overview
• Adding data sources
• Encrypting your database connection
• SSH tunneling
• SSL certificate

Configuring Metabase

• Overview
• Setting up Metabase
• Settings
• Email
• Slack
• Environment variables
• Configuring logging
• Handling timezones
• Localization
• Appearance
• Caching query results
• Custom map settings
• Customizing the Metabase Jetty Webserver

Usage and performance tools

• Overview
• Auditing tools
• Tracking query errors

Metabase API

• API reference
• API tutorial

Premium features

The Enterprise and Pro plans of Metabase offer additional features.

• Overview
• Getting and activating the Enterprise edition
• List of premium features

Metabase community

• Metabase forum
• Community stories
• Case studies
• Metabase Blog
• Source code repository on GitHub

Developers guide

Contribute to the Metabase open source project!

Metabase Cloud

Data and Business Intelligence Glossary

Data jargon explained.