title: Metabase documentation
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Metabase is an open-source business intelligence platform. You can use Metabase to ask questions about your data, or embed Metabase in your app to let your customers explore their data on their own.
First steps
Installing Metabase
Run as a JAR, using Docker, or on Metabase Cloud.
Setting up Metabase
Once installed, set up your Metabase and connect to your data.
Getting started
With your data connected, get started asking questions, creating dashboards, and sharing your work.
A tour of Metabase
Metabase is a deep product with a lot of tools to simplify business intelligence, from embeddable charts and interactive dashboards, to GUI and SQL editors, to auditing and data sandboxing, and more.
Documentation topics
Metabase's reference documentation.
Installation
- Installation overview
- Installing Metabase
- Upgrading Metabase
- Configuring the Metabase application database
- Backing up Metabase
- Migrating to a production application database
- Java versions
- Monitoring your Metabase
- Serialization
- Supported browsers
- Privacy
Databases
- Databases overview
- Adding and managing databases
- Encrypting your database connection
- SSH tunneling
- SSL certificate
Questions
Query builder
SQL and native queries
- The SQL editor
- SQL parameters
- Referencing models and saved questions
- SQL snippets
- SQL snippet folder permissions
Sharing
Dashboards
- Dashboards overview
- Introduction to dashboards
- Dashboard filters
- Interactive dashboards
- Charts with multiple series
- Dashboard subscriptions
Data modeling
- Data modeling overview
- Models
- Data model admin settings
- Field types
- Formatting defaults
- Segments and metrics
Organization
- Organization overview
- Basic exploration
- Collections
- History
- Data reference
- Events and timelines
- X-rays
People
- People overview
- Account settings
- Managing people and groups
- Password complexity
- Session expiration
- Google Sign-In or LDAP
Paid SSO options
Permissions
- Permissions overview
- Permissions introduction
- Data permissions
- Collection permissions
- Application permissions
- Data sandboxes
- SQL snippets folder permissions
Embedding
- Embedding overview
- Embedding introduction
- Full-app embedding
- Signed embedding
- Parameters for signed embeds
Configuration
- Configuration overview
- Setting up Metabase
- General settings
- Slack
- Environment variables
- Configuration file
- Metabase log configuration
- Timezones
- Languages and localization
- Appearance
- Caching query results
- Custom maps
- Customizing the Metabase Jetty webserver
Tools
Metabase API
Troubleshooting
Developer guide
Getting help
Troubleshooting
Tutorials and guides
Learn Metabase has a ton of articles on how to use Metabase, data best practices, and more.
More resources
Discussion
Share and connect with other Metabasers.
Paid features
Some Metabase plans offer additional features.
Metabase Cloud
For docs specific to Metabase Cloud plans.
Community stories
Practical advice from our community.
Metabase blog
News, updates, and ideas.
Customers
Real companies, real data, real stories.
Metabase Twitter
We tweet stuff.
Source code repository on GitHub
Follow us on GitHub.
Developers guide
Contribute to the Metabase open source project!
Data and Business Intelligence Glossary
Data jargon explained.
Metabase Experts
If you’d like more technical resources to set up your data stack with Metabase, connect with a Metabase Expert.