Version v0.28 of Metabase is no longer supported. Check out the docs for the current stable version, Metabase v0.63.

Administration Guide

Are you in charge of managing Metabase for your organization? Then you’re in the right spot. You are the chosen one.

This guide will teach you about:

• Connecting Metabase to databases in your organization
• Enabling features that send email (SMTP)
• Editing your database metadata
• Managing user accounts
• Setting data permissions
• Creating and managing collections
• Creating segments and metrics
• Configuring settings
• Setting up Slack integration
• Authenticating with Google Sign-In or LDAP
• Creating a Getting Started Guide for your team
• Sharing dashboards and questions with public links
• Embedding Metabase in other Applications
• Caching query results

First things first, you’ll need to install Metabase. If you haven’t done that yet, our Installation Guide will help you through the process.

Already done with that? Then let’s start with going over connecting Metabase to your database.