title: Metabase documentation

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
• Setting up Metabase
• How to upgrade Metabase
• Application database
• Backing up Metabase
• Migrating to a production application database
• Running database migrations manually
• A word on Java versions
• How to setup monitoring via JMX
• Serialization: copying one Metabase instance to another
• Supported browsers

Asking questions

Query builder

• Asking questions
• Custom expressions
• List of expressions: aggregations and functions
• Visualizing data
• Using results to ask new questions
• Joining data

SQL and native queries

• The native SQL editor
• Viewing metadata
• SQL templates
• SQL snippets

Alerts

• Setting and getting alerts

Dashboards

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

Models

• Models

Finding things and keeping organized

• Basic exploration
• Sharing and organizing your saved questions
• Collections
• Events and timelines

People and groups

• Editing your account settings
• Managing people and groups
• Single Sign-on (SSO)
  • Google Sign-In or LDAP
  • SAML
  • JWT
• Password complexity
• Session expiration

Permissions

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

Embedding questions and dashboards

• Public links for dashboards and questions
• Embedding Metabase in other applications
• Customizing the appearance of embedded items
• Embedding the entire Metabase app in your own web app
• Embedding example apps
• White labeling charts (branding)

Databases

• Adding data sources
• Encrypting your database connection
• Editing your database metadata
• Creating segments and metrics
• SSH tunneling
• SSL certificate

Configuring Metabase

• Settings
• Email
• Slack
• Environment variables
• Handling timezones
• Customizing the Metabase Jetty Webserver
• Default formatting
• Localization
• Caching query results
• Custom map settings

Usage and performance tools

• Auditing tools
• Tracking query errors

Metabase API

• API reference
• API tutorial

Paid plans

The Enterprise and Pro plans of Metabase offer additional features.

• 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

Documentation guides

• Users guide
• Admin guide
• Operations guide
• Troubleshooting guide
• Developers guide

Metabase Cloud

• Docs specific to our hosted version

Privacy

• Some info on privacy and GDPR

Reference

• Anonymous Information Collection Reference
• Data and Business Intelligence Glossary