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Metabase: Easy Data Insights

Name: Metabase: Easy Data Insights
Author: metabase

Get data-driven decisions with Metabase, an open source BI tool for founders, with 48k+ GitHub stars.

48,809 stars6,750 forksClojureHealth Score 9/10Updated 8/18/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that helps founders make data-driven decisions by connecting to various data sources and creating interactive dashboards.

Install / run

java -jar metabase.jar

When to use it

•When you need to create a data dashboard to track key performance indicators (KPIs) for your startup
•When you want to embed data visualizations into your application for users
•When you need to perform ad-hoc queries on your database without requiring extensive SQL knowledge

Quick start

1Download the Metabase JAR file from the GitHub releases page
2Run the command `java -jar metabase.jar` to start the Metabase server
3Open a web browser and navigate to `http://localhost:3000` to access the Metabase interface
4Configure a data source by clicking on the 'Admin' button and selecting 'Data Model' to connect to your database
5Create a new dashboard by clicking on the 'New Dashboard' button and adding widgets to visualize your data

Ready-to-paste prompt

To connect to a PostgreSQL database, use the following setup: `java -jar metabase.jar && echo '{"host":"localhost","port":5432,"user":"myuser","password":"mypassword","db":"mydb"}' > ~/metabase.db.config`

Heads up: Make sure you have Java 11 or later installed on your system, as Metabase requires it to run

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Topics

analytics

business-intelligence

businessintelligence

clojure

dashboard

data

data-analysis

data-visualization

database

metabase

mysql

postgres

postgresql

reporting

slack

sql-editor

visualization

How Metabase: Easy Data Insights works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Metabase: Easy Data Insights is a very large Clojure project (~1.2M lines across 12915 code files, plus 2737 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~1.2M lines · 12915 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Node.js · Docker

Needs API keys (.env)