Administration guide

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

Admin overview

Here’s an Admin overview that gives you a map of the territory. The article is part of a larger course on Administration.

Installing Metabase

See how to install Metabase.

Getting things set up

• Connecting Metabase to databases in your organization
• Enabling features that send email (SMTP)
• Setting up Slack integration
• Configuring settings
• Setting formatting defaults
• Changing localization settings
• Caching query results
• Customizing your map settings
• SSH tunneling in Metabase
• Securing database connections using an SSL certificate

Curating your data

• Editing your database metadata
• Creating segments and metrics

Adding and managing users

• Managing user accounts
• Authenticating with Google Sign-In or LDAP

Setting permissions and access

• Permissions overview
• Setting data permissions
• Creating and managing collections
• Application permissions

Embedding and sharing with public links

• Sharing dashboards and questions with public links
• Embedding Metabase in other Applications