Version v0.35 of Metabase is no longer supported. Check out the docs for the current stable version, Metabase v0.63.
Here are a few other miscellaneous settings you can configure from the home page of the Admin Panel.
How you’d like to refer to this instance of Metabase.
The base URL of this Metabase instance. The base URL is used in emails to allow users to click through to their specific instance. Make sure to include http:// or https:// to make sure it’s reachable.
This email address will be displayed in various messages throughout Metabase when users encounter a scenario where they need assistance from an admin, such as a password reset request.
The report timezone sets the default time zone for displaying times. The timezone is used when breaking out data by dates.
Setting the default timezone will not change the timezone of any data in your database. If the underlying times in your database aren’t assigned to a timezone, Metabase will use the report timezone as the default timezone.
Metabase has been translated into a variety of languages, and this setting allows you to configure the language to be used for external Metabase communications, such as emails and pulses. There is not currently a setting to set the language in the Metabase interface for all of your users; instead, Metabase relies on each user’s browser language to determine which language should be used, provided Metabase supports that translation. You can check which languages Metabase currently supports.
This option turns determines whether or not you allow anonymous data about your usage of Metabase to be sent back to us to help us improve the product. Your database’s data is never tracked or sent.
X-rays are a great way to allow your users to quickly explore your data or interesting parts of charts, or to see a comparison of different things. But if you’re dealing with data sources where allowing users to run x-rays on them would incur burdonsome performance or monetary costs, you can turn them off here.
By default, Metabase allows your users to use a previously saved question as a source for queries. If you have a lot of slow running queries, you may want to switch this option off, as performance problem can occur.
By default, Metabase attempts to make field and table names more readable by changing things like somehorriblename to Some Horrible Name. This does not work well for languages other than English, or for fields that have lots of abbreviations or codes in them. If you’d like to turn this setting off, you can do so from the Admin Panel under Settings > General > Friendly Table and Field Names.
To manually fix field or table names if they still look wrong, you can go to the Metadata section of the Admin Panel, select the database that contains the table or field you want to edit, select the table, and then edit the name(s) in the input boxes that appear.
Easily customize how numbers, dates, times, and currencies should be displayed in Metabase with formatting settings.
