Metabase Reviews

It is easy to use and it is cheapYou can make every analysis you need to understand how your business or product is going and get the insights to what to do next

I believe for more complex analysis you will need a more robust system like TableauSometimes can be slow to load a lot of data but you can work on that in the infrastructure side

Ease of use - metabase is very straightforward to get set up initially and for new users to create basic items
Flexibility with SQL - metabase's best power is still working with it in SQL but the noCode tools are still good as well

Visualization customizability - there is room to grow on allowing more customization and variety in the visualizations

Easy to ask simple questions using their 'visual' SQL editor

Absolutely terrible for everything else, ESPECIALLY dashboard creation.

What we loved most about Metabase is how easy it is for non-technical persons to query database and create dashboards.Our main goal of using Metabase was to equip everyone in our team with the ability to get insight into the data they need and Metabase proved to be very useful. We also loved how easy it is to create and edit dashboards, visualize data using different types of charts/graphs and manage collections of dashboards.Another great feature is how you can data from a variety of data sources including Google Analytics!

If self-hosting, it can be a real pain to set up. The self-hosting guide, while very detailed may not be ideal for everyone. We also had some challenges when connecting our data source as the documentation was not very clear.

1. Direct linkage with SQL for visualization.2. Easy to make dashboards.

Visualization features could be better for adding up sheets in the dashboards.

The most liked thing about this software is both tech & non-tech folks can use it seamlessly, in a hassle-free manner. You can analyze with the help of Query Language or you can do the same analytically manually, much like excel. It's easily integrable with other software via a generic API.

They have a self-hosted version as an offering as well, which you get for free :)

It gets too slow when all your team members start using it simultaneously. Many a time system chokes & keep loading for sometimes.

I love the fact that the software is open source and has all the functionality we need. The community around it is great and the self-hosted option is free! Our team loves using it, and we moved from an industry leader to this software with no complaints.

Because it is self-hosted, we had some administration issues, plus updating the software can be a pain. I know that some of these issues can be mitigated with the cloud-hosting option but the price makes it hard to justify.

Metabase is highly intuitive and easy to use. You don't need to have an extensive knowledge of SQL; it's enough to know the structure of the data sources (an analytics database in our case). There are many ways to manipulate and organise data. Most graphs can be set up within a minute by using "questions". I find that the dashboards are very simple and intuitive as well, and it's easy to arrange data in the way you need.

Perhaps the only thing I'm missing in Metabase are sequences / funnels, but I don't use them for the majority of my work.

Ease of use, sense of humor, accesibility

Not enough ways to export reports or chart them

Metabase allows us to visualize data coming from different sources, which is crucial when we use different tools producing data.

(1) Performance: sometimes it takes too long to load and we have to be patient
(2) Visualization could be better: I'm nitpicking but I feel like customization isn't really a possibility here and it could definitely improved

DASHBOAD and visualization, i am hear too much in metabase

DASHBOAD and visualization i am very interesting dashboard

you're able to generate a wide variety of data

it requires coding skills in order to generate useful data

The use of SQL as being able to build the direct questions, the models you can create to use them

The views that can be created are very limited creating few opportunities for visualization

It's very easy to write custom queries and perform data analysis! Metabase provides a read-only front-end connection to multiple databases and allows me to write and save queries and questions, and then I can package them up into links and dashboards for my team to use.

It doesn't allow joins between different databases. It's not possible to use it as a data lake or data aggregator between sources.

Metabase helps to get an overview of your SQL data. If you are working with a database that is self-developed, a tool like metabase helps you visualize, filter and make sense of your data. Company-wide and across our Organization, we use metabase to keep track of KPIs and manage our 1p data.

To get started, Metabase is not super easy to comprehend. If you want to create custom dashboards or filter views, some SQL programming experience is definitely required. Furthermore, the larger your database, the longer dashboards or filter views take to load. Page Speed could definitely be improved.

I love Metabase. Firstly, it has allowed our company to interact with our data and get data driven. Secondly, it is easy to learn the coding language associated with it. SQL is straightforward. Lastly, you can build dashboard inside it to make data analysis and representation easier.

There aren't many negative things to say about Metabase. There are times when it goes down or the query can load slowly. Aside from this, I am satisfied with it.

1. Open Source
2. Regular Updates on Features
3. Seamlessly Connects with DB.

1. If there was a dedicated customer support

Extremely easy to setup at a click of a button
Using the open source version
Easy to create reports
Pulse feature quite useful
Neat user interface makes it easy to use

Contributing back to metabase is difficult because it is written in coffeescript. The open source installation tends to crash for larger loads. Requires some configuration which is not trivial.

It's easy to use and it's constantly improving. We now use it for all sorts of things that aren't dashboards. The ability to send alerts if queries return results is great for validation of certain processes.

Takes a bit of time and effort to setup if you want to self-host. No Azure SSO on the free edition, which is fair enough.

It is easy to quickly put together basic questions and quickly visualise data, tweaking parameters as necessary.

It is difficult to link data to ask more complex queries of the data