Metabase
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintSourceNeeds Postgres9 documented maintainers
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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This file may be out of date.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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