Metabase
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence and embedded analytics tool that lets people ask questions about their data and view the answers as charts or dashboards without writing SQL. It also supports a native SQL editor for more advanced analysis and can embed dashboards inside other applications.
What gets deployed with it
- PostgreSQL HA Cluster — required Metabase requires an external relational database for production use. The default H2 embedded database is not suitable for multi-user or sustained workloads. PostgreSQL is the recommended backend.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| single-node-app | 1 | metabase |
| ha-app-replicas | 2 | metabase |
What drives the cost
- Peak concurrent users
- Expected peak number of users actively loading dashboards or running questions simultaneously; the primary compute sizing signal for the Metabase JVM application server.
- Saved questions and dashboards
- Approximate total number of saved questions and dashboard definitions; captures accumulated JVM working-set pressure and application metadata volume.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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