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Metabase

★ 49.7k

A self-hosted alternative to Power Bi

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintSourceNeeds Postgres9 documented maintainers

About

Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence platform designed for people across an organization to explore data and answer questions without needing to write SQL. It is aimed at...

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Features

  • no-SQL questions
  • SQL editor
  • AI-assisted querying
  • interactive dashboards
  • documents for analysis
  • data transformation
  • alerts
  • dashboard subscriptions
  • Git versioning
  • embedded analytics

Details

Last Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Created
Feb 2, 2015
Install Methods
source
Requirements
supported databases
API
REST
Backup & Export
built-in-backup
Runtime / Stack
JavaDocker
Privacy & Independence
Cloud: Optional
User Model
Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers

Run Metabase with Docker Compose

Compose file from the Metabase project repository.

2 services · database: postgres · infra: postgres

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (1 volume)

cross-version/docker-compose.yml · @ 6509e98 · scanned Jun 26, 2026

services:
  postgres:
    image: postgres:15
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: metabase
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: metabase
      POSTGRES_DB: metabase
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U metabase"]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

  metabase:
    image: ${METABASE_IMAGE:-metabase/metabase:latest}
    ports:
      - "${METABASE_PORT:-3000}:3000"
    environment:
      MB_DB_TYPE: postgres
      MB_DB_DBNAME: metabase
      MB_DB_PORT: 5432
      MB_DB_USER: metabase
      MB_DB_PASS: metabase
      MB_DB_HOST: postgres
    depends_on:
      postgres:
        condition: service_healthy

volumes:
  postgres_data:

This file may be out of date. Check the Metabase documentation for current setup steps.

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