Metabase
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
Metabase is a business intelligence and dashboarding tool — connect to any database, build visual queries via point-and-click or SQL, share dashboards, schedule reports. The OSS BI tool that makes data accessible to non-technical stakeholders without buying Tableau.
For startups giving non-engineering teams data access without writing SQL, Metabase is the leading OSS BI tool.
What it's for
- Self-serve analytics — non-tech teams build their own queries
- Dashboard creation — business KPI dashboards
- Embedded analytics — embed dashboards in customer portals
- Ad-hoc analysis — explore data without writing SQL
- Scheduled reports — daily / weekly email reports
Who it's for
- Data teams providing self-serve BI to the org
- Startups democratizing data access
- Product managers running ad-hoc analytics
- Operations teams monitoring business KPIs
- Customer-facing analytics providers building white-label dashboards
Why teams pick Metabase over alternatives
- AGPLv3 — fully open
- Visual query builder — non-engineers create queries via UI
- SQL escape hatch — power users write raw SQL
- Embeddable dashboards — public + embedded modes
- Active development — frequent releases
- Strong DB support — 20+ database connectors
Integrations
- Databases — Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, ClickHouse, Druid, more
- Authentication — local + LDAP + SAML + OAuth (Google, custom OIDC)
- Email — SMTP for scheduled reports
- Slack — alerts and dashboard notifications
- Webhooks — fire on alert events
- Embedded analytics — signed JWT for customer-facing dashboards
- API — REST API for programmatic access
Notable users & community
- 39k+ GitHub stars
- Used by Lyft, Robinhood, eBay, Slack for production BI
- Backed by Metabase Inc. with sustainable open-core
- Active community on Discord
- Featured in BI tool comparisons
Tips & operations
- Use Postgres for app DB — default H2 (in-memory) loses data on restart
- Cache settings — query caching massively speeds dashboards
- Permission model — sandbox sensitive data via groups + permissions
- Scheduled refreshes — for slow queries, cache on schedule
- Backup Metabase Postgres — app config + saved queries + dashboards
- Embed via JWT — public dashboards risk data leak; embed signed
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker compose: Metabase + Postgres (app DB)
- Pinned
metabase/metabase:v0.52(release-tagged) - HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
- Admin user via first-run wizard
- Persistent Postgres for app config
- Sample data sources documented
- Backup hook covers Postgres (app config + saved queries)
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |