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Oct 12, 2026 in Engineering

More, Better, Faster: How we automate Metabase releases

How we went from a manual Metabase release checklist to fully automated daily patch releases with GitHub Actions, reused test builds, and a three-click release UI

Ryan Laurie

‧ 4 min read

Oct 7, 2026 in Analytics and BI

Making BI migrations suck less

A four-phase BI migration playbook: audit your dashboards, clean up your data layer, rebuild with AI, and bring stakeholders along.

Matthew Hefferon

‧ 6 min read

Oct 1, 2026 in Analytics and BI

What is a semantic layer? A definition for the AI analytics era

What a semantic layer is, what's in one, how AI changed how they're built, and whether you still need one for accurate AI analytics.

2026

August 2026 Security Vulnerability: What happened?

Aug 27, 2026 in News ‧ 4 min read

Join us for AI Analytics Week

Aug 14, 2026 in News ‧ 3 min read

Security-focused Metabase Release Announcement

Aug 12, 2026 in News ‧ 1 min read

Security update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now

Aug 6, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

How we picked LibreChat — and ended up with a Slack agent

Jul 20, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 11 min read

Metabase alternatives: comparing platforms for AI analytics

Jul 13, 2026 in Analytics and BI ‧ 24 min read

PA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation

Jun 16, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 7 min read

Introducing the Claude skill for learning Metabase

Jun 10, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

AI for everyone, with confidence

Jun 9, 2026 in Product ‧ 6 min read

Metabase + OpenAI Codex

Jun 2, 2026 in News ‧ 1 min read

Welcome to the strip mining era of open source security

May 14, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 8 min read

Winners of the Metabase AI Hackathon

May 13, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

Improving the performance of the popular Clojure development tool clojure-lsp

May 12, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 9 min read

How we built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase

Apr 27, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 7 min read

Metabase AI Hackathon

Apr 21, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

Meet Repro-Bot, our GitHub issue triage agent

Apr 10, 2026 in Engineering ‧ 6 min read

Meet Data Studio: tools to curate your semantic layer in Metabase

Mar 10, 2026 in Analytics and BI ‧ 3 min read

February 2026 vulnerability: What happened?

Mar 2, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

Security update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now

Feb 19, 2026 in News ‧ 2 min read

Lessons learned from building AI analytics agents: build for chaos

Feb 3, 2026 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

We simplified embedding

Jan 13, 2026 in News ‧ 3 min read

Become a data analyst in 2026: a practical roadmap

Jan 12, 2026 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

2025

10 B2B SaaS product metrics that should be on your dashboard

Nov 10, 2025 in Analytics and BI ‧ 11 min read

Metabase Community Data Stack Report 2025

Sep 3, 2025 in News ‧ 6 min read

The story behind our AI Dataset Generator

Jul 15, 2025 in Data explorations ‧ 3 min read

How to build sales dashboards that sales teams actually use

Jul 9, 2025 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

What is embedded analytics?

May 15, 2025 in Analytics and BI ‧ 12 min read

The Metabase Community Data Stack Survey: by data teams, for data teams

May 11, 2025 in News ‧ 2 min read

Top 5 Dashboard fails (and how to fix them)

Apr 25, 2025 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

Product Hunt AMA Recap: embedding, open source success, and more

Apr 7, 2025 in News ‧ 8 min read

Introducing Metabase's new Embedded Analytics SDK for React

Feb 27, 2025 in News ‧ 1 min read

2024

Maps data visualizations: best practices

Dec 19, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

How to visualize time-series data: best practices

Nov 20, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 3 min read

How to build better line and bar charts

Oct 18, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

Communicate Data Effectively

Oct 8, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 11 min read

How we enriched customer contact and organization data

Sep 25, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

Set up a basic pipeline for log analysis

Mar 4, 2024 in Using Metabase ‧ 4 min read

Embed a Metabase dashboard in Zendesk

Feb 26, 2024 in Using Metabase ‧ 5 min read

Keeping tabs on embedded analytics

Feb 19, 2024 in Using Metabase ‧ 3 min read

Comparing the most popular open-source charting libraries

Feb 13, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 5 min read

Understand how your team uses Metabase

Jan 11, 2024 in Using Metabase ‧ 4 min read

Metabase housekeeping with usage analytics

Jan 10, 2024 in Using Metabase ‧ 7 min read

How data-driven is your org?

Jan 8, 2024 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

2023

10 handy Metabase features you may not know about

Dec 5, 2023 in Using Metabase ‧ 6 min read

Choose where your Metabase Cloud is hosted

Oct 11, 2023 in News ‧ 1 min read

Vulnerability post-mortem: July 2023

Aug 4, 2023 in News ‧ 17 min read

Advice for building and scaling an effective and happy data team

Aug 3, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

Urgent: Upgrade your Metabase installation now. H2-related remote code execution found

Jul 28, 2023 in News ‧ 3 min read

Please upgrade your Metabase immediately

Jul 20, 2023 in News ‧ 2 min read

The two most important business metrics to track

Jul 7, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

How to improve data literacy

May 26, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

You don't need a data warehouse

May 18, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 3 min read

The hidden costs of the data stack

May 12, 2023 in Data explorations ‧ 9 min read

4 steps to turn your support tickets into an automated dashboard

May 5, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

How to create and analyze an NPS survey the right way

Apr 20, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

Automating growth and customer insights in SaaS businesses

Mar 6, 2023 in Analytics and BI ‧ 3 min read

2022

Why interactive embedding?

Dec 15, 2022 in Using Metabase ‧ 7 min read

Bus factor of top GitHub projects

Nov 14, 2022 in Data explorations ‧ 4 min read

Why Metabase Cloud?

Oct 26, 2022 in Using Metabase ‧ 8 min read

Halloween Edition: Data Horror stories in startups

Oct 21, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

The data guide to travel

Oct 4, 2022 in Data explorations ‧ 4 min read

How Metabase uses Metabase

Sep 21, 2022 in Data explorations ‧ 3 min read

Want to retire early? Save more money

Aug 30, 2022 in Data explorations ‧ 3 min read

#jobs #jobs #jobs | Exploring trends in data jobs postings

Aug 10, 2022 in Data explorations ‧ 3 min read

Building a better data culture for your team

Jul 26, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 12 min read

A product manager's guide to getting started with Metabase

May 27, 2022 in Using Metabase ‧ 5 min read

A marketer's guide to getting started with Metabase

May 20, 2022 in Using Metabase ‧ 5 min read

Maintaining healthy skepticism toward your data

May 19, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 3 min read

Your chart has too many series: data visualization tips for the non-analyst

May 1, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 5 min read

Calculating LTV: are you doing it wrong?

Apr 25, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

Metabase is SOC 2 Type 1 Compliant

Mar 29, 2022 in News ‧ 1 min read

The perfect chart: choosing the right visualization for every scenario

Feb 14, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 5 min read

Avoiding analyst burnout: how to streamline ad hoc requests

Feb 1, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 5 min read

Business intelligence career paths

Jan 4, 2022 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

2021

From spreadsheets to business intelligence

Dec 15, 2021 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

BI career path: How I became a data lead at AngelList Venture

Dec 13, 2021 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

SQL Cheatsheet: Five simple SQL commands to get started in data analytics

Nov 18, 2021 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

Tools for building trust

Nov 17, 2021 in News ‧ 3 min read

The 6 most common types of bias when working with data

Oct 8, 2021 in Analytics and BI ‧ 9 min read

The Modern Data Stack (updated for 2021)

Sep 30, 2021 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

Migrating from Redash to Metabase

Aug 24, 2021 in Using Metabase ‧ 6 min read

Migrating from Chartio to Metabase

Apr 23, 2021 in Using Metabase ‧ 6 min read

An open call for article submissions

Mar 12, 2021 in News ‧ 3 min read

2020

Introducing Learn Metabase

Dec 15, 2020 in News ‧ 1 min read

How to run Metabase in production

Dec 1, 2020 in Using Metabase ‧ 5 min read

An Enterprising Opening

Oct 23, 2020 in News ‧ 3 min read

Announcing Metabase Cloud

Sep 14, 2020 in News ‧ 1 min read

2019

Upcoming changes to our translations policies

Nov 21, 2019 in News ‧ 2 min read

Metabase 0.33 Preview - A query for your thoughts

Jun 24, 2019 in News ‧ 2 min read

They grow up so fast

Apr 23, 2019 in News ‧ 3 min read

2018

Metabase in French and Norwegian

Sep 6, 2018 in News ‧ 1 min read

Metabase in Portuguese

Aug 20, 2018 in News ‧ 1 min read

Metabase en Español

Aug 9, 2018 in News ‧ 1 min read

Some things to know before trying out version 0.30

Jul 12, 2018 in News ‧ 3 min read

Power your Application analytics with Metabase

Feb 14, 2018 in Using Metabase ‧ 6 min read

2017

Want to provide a white labelled version of Metabase?

Aug 21, 2017 in News ‧ 1 min read

Help us provide Metabase in your language!

Aug 17, 2017 in News ‧ 3 min read

We put questions inside your questions

Jul 27, 2017 in Using Metabase ‧ 4 min read

AWS Startups & Metabase

Jun 19, 2017 in Using Metabase ‧ 4 min read

Bootstrap your analytics in 1 hour or less

Jan 16, 2017 in Analytics and BI ‧ 6 min read

2016

Announcing the Metabase Network

Nov 30, 2016 in News ‧ 2 min read

Come celebrate the Metabase project turning 1!

Oct 19, 2016 in News ‧ 1 min read

The Metabase approach to Permissions

Oct 11, 2016 in Using Metabase ‧ 4 min read

Institutional Memory

Mar 14, 2016 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

Microservices considered harmful

Mar 10, 2016 in Analytics and BI ‧ 4 min read

Event Analytics Strategies

Mar 3, 2016 in Analytics and BI ‧ 7 min read

The 2015 Analytics Software Market

Jan 9, 2016 in Analytics and BI ‧ 8 min read

Analytics rumblings in the public markets in 2015

Jan 3, 2016 in Analytics and BI ‧ 5 min read

2015

Unveiling Metabase

Oct 21, 2015 in News ‧ 2 min read

Releases

Oct 2026

New

Metabase 64

Tighter checks on every request, query and permission, required two-factor authentication, IP allowlists on Metabase Cloud, better MCP server, and Metabot on (almost) any model, including one you host yourself.

Jul 2026

Metabase 63

A whole lot of wishlist items: treemap charts, 2FA, PDFs in dashboard subscriptions, support for OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Microsoft Azure as Metabot providers, one-step dashboard viewer invites, CSV uploads for Snowflake, and more.

Jun 2026

Metabase 62

v62 adds a plugin SDK for building any chart type, interactive charts from the MCP server in your AI client, the Metabase CLI for terminal-native workflows, an interactive Schema Viewer, collections in the Library, alerts management, and programmatic filter control for embedded analytics.

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More, Better, Faster: How we automate Metabase releases

Ryan Laurie

Making BI migrations suck less

Matthew Hefferon

What is a semantic layer? A definition for the AI analytics era

Chen-hui Bergl

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2026

August 2026 Security Vulnerability: What happened?

Join us for AI Analytics Week

Security-focused Metabase Release Announcement

Security update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now

How we picked LibreChat — and ended up with a Slack agent

Metabase alternatives: comparing platforms for AI analytics

PA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation

Introducing the Claude skill for learning Metabase

AI for everyone, with confidence

Metabase + OpenAI Codex

Welcome to the strip mining era of open source security

Winners of the Metabase AI Hackathon

Improving the performance of the popular Clojure development tool clojure-lsp

How we built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase

Metabase AI Hackathon

Meet Repro-Bot, our GitHub issue triage agent

Meet Data Studio: tools to curate your semantic layer in Metabase

February 2026 vulnerability: What happened?

Security update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now

Lessons learned from building AI analytics agents: build for chaos

We simplified embedding

Become a data analyst in 2026: a practical roadmap

2025

10 B2B SaaS product metrics that should be on your dashboard

Metabase Community Data Stack Report 2025

The story behind our AI Dataset Generator

How to build sales dashboards that sales teams actually use

What is embedded analytics?

The Metabase Community Data Stack Survey: by data teams, for data teams

Top 5 Dashboard fails (and how to fix them)

Product Hunt AMA Recap: embedding, open source success, and more

Introducing Metabase's new Embedded Analytics SDK for React

2024

Maps data visualizations: best practices

How to visualize time-series data: best practices

How to build better line and bar charts

Communicate Data Effectively

How we enriched customer contact and organization data

Set up a basic pipeline for log analysis

Embed a Metabase dashboard in Zendesk

Keeping tabs on embedded analytics

Comparing the most popular open-source charting libraries

Understand how your team uses Metabase

Metabase housekeeping with usage analytics

How data-driven is your org?

2023

10 handy Metabase features you may not know about

Choose where your Metabase Cloud is hosted

Vulnerability post-mortem: July 2023

Advice for building and scaling an effective and happy data team

Urgent: Upgrade your Metabase installation now. H2-related remote code execution found

Please upgrade your Metabase immediately

The two most important business metrics to track

How to improve data literacy

You don't need a data warehouse

The hidden costs of the data stack

4 steps to turn your support tickets into an automated dashboard

How to create and analyze an NPS survey the right way

Automating growth and customer insights in SaaS businesses

2022

Why interactive embedding?

Bus factor of top GitHub projects

Why Metabase Cloud?

Halloween Edition: Data Horror stories in startups

The data guide to travel