Administration and operation

Guidance on running and administering Metabase at scale.

Admin overview

An overview and list of resources for Metabase admins.

4 min read

How to run Metabase in production

If you're self-hosting Metabase, here are some benchmarks and best practices.

8 min read

Managing people in Metabase

How to go from managing dozens of users to thousands.

6 min read

Guide to sharing data

Inside or outside your organization, what are your options for sharing your data or analysis, and when should you use one method over another?

6 min read

Keeping your analytics organized

How to keep your analytics organized as the numbers of users, questions, and dashboards inevitably increases.

8 min read

Multiple environments

Options for spinning up dev, staging, or test environments.

2 min read

Serialization: preloading dashboards in a new Metabase instance

How to use Metabase's serialization feature to copy questions, dashboards, collections, settings, and more from one Metabase instance to a new Metabase instance.

13 min read

Setting up a git-based workflow

Create models, questions, and dashboards in a staging Metabase, commit your changes to a repository, and push those changes to your production Metabase.

8 min read

Making dashboards faster

How to make your dashboards load faster.

9 min read

Metabase at scale

Best practices for scaling Metabase to support more people and databases.

11 min read

Working with the Metabase API

An introduction to Metabase's API.

15 min read