Getting started

Get up and running by 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.

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Getting started with Metabase

Get to know your way around Metabase and create your first question using the sample database.

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Find data in Metabase

How to find questions, dashboards, and data sources in Metabase

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Explore dashboards and questions

How to see, download, and explore the data behind dashboards and questions in Metabase

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Ask a question in the query builder

Filter, group, and visualize your data in Metabase's query builder

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Filter and limit data

Learn all the ways to filter and limit data in Metabase

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Summarize data

Use Metabase's summarizes to calculate averages, totals, and other metrics

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Share your work with others

Create a dashboard with saved questions, and set up an alert to get notified when your question returns something interesting.

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Learn about your data

Discover the tools Metabase provides for learning about your data. These tools include a customizable data dictionary, as well as editing tools for curating your metadata.

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Next steps: advanced Metabase features for data analysts

Set up alerts, annotate charts with events, model data, templatize SQL queries, customize click behavior, and more.

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Beyond BI: other problems you can solve with Metabase

Use Metabase as a database browser, or a publishing platform, or a lookup tool, or a quick business intelligence tool, or as just a way to field frequently asked questions.

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Using Metabase with MongoDB

Visualize and explore your data in MongoDB with Metabase. Run MongoDB native queries and analyze non-tabular data.

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