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Jun 16, 2026 in Engineering

PA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation

We built a lightweight CLI agent system that automates boring developer tasks and gives back about 15% of the day.

Filipe Silva

‧ 7 min read

Jun 10, 2026 in News

Introducing the Claude skill for learning Metabase

Use Claude to teach you Metabase in a structured way, using your own data.

Robert Kosara

‧ 2 min read

Jun 9, 2026 in Product

AI for everyone, with confidence

We've shipped a lot of AI features since the start of 2026. Here's how they fit together, and why the infrastructure around AI matters as much as the features themselves.

Jess Thompson

‧ 6 min read

2026

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 ‧ 7 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 ‧ 13 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

Metabase alternatives: peeking at other Business Intelligence tools

Jan 10, 2025 in Analytics and BI ‧ 24 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 ‧ 4 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

Jun 2026

New

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.

May 2026

Metabase 61

v61 adds the AI governance layer — per-group access controls, token and message limits, Metabot customization with system prompts, AI usage analytics, dashboards-as-code from your AI terminal, metrics math, and more.

Apr 2026

Metabase 60

We open-sourced our AI tools. Plus the official Metabase MCP server, Metabot in Slack, BYO model, split multi-series charts, the metrics explorer, and lots more.

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