Metabase

Score7.8 out of 10

50 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Metabase are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Easy to use and understand: Many users have found Metabase to be easy to use and understand, even for those with minimal technical knowledge. The intuitive and user-friendly interface, resembling the familiarity of Microsoft Excel, has received positive feedback from reviewers.

Assistance in writing SQL queries: Users appreciate that Metabase provides suggestions and assistance when writing SQL queries, making it easier for them to work with data. This feature has been praised by several reviewers as it streamlines the process of querying data.

Seamless integration with other software: Reviewers have highlighted the seamless integration capabilities of Metabase through a generic API, allowing users to connect with different databases effortlessly. This functionality has been highly valued by many users who rely on integrating Metabase with other software applications.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Metabase easy to use

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Metabase is intuitive and easy to use. It connects with the different CRMs we are using at the company, helping us have the right visibility with our data. This data can be shared with the different teams in order for us to take the right actions and improve our business.

Pros

Accurate data automatically refreshed
Easy to build tables and connect different data points
easy to connect via API with different CRMs

Cons

The layout could be more modern
Would be great to have a drag and drop option to build dashboards

Likelihood to Recommend

Metabase is an easy tool to use if you are interested in collecting and aggregating data from multiple platforms. It is also easy to set up and start receiving the data results as a report. It is also easy to integrate with other tools that generate visual reports and take the necessary actions based on the data details.

Verified User

Director in Customer Service (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Next Level Open Source BI Tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we're using Metabase to pull reports from the database for our teams for day-to-day meetings and discussions. For us, it was taking a lot of time to pull these reports using Django, and the system was showing limitations. With Metabase, data fetching becomes relatively fast as it interacts with the database directly. Apart from this, the system was quite easy to integrate without the system using APIs and authentication provided by it. We're integrating to show data in a beatified manner now, like using graphs and figures.

Pros

We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
Data representation from database directly.

Cons

Currently, they don't provide page size, i.e., the number of records to be shown at a time in questions, and it isn't very easy. Some filters can implant this.
Just like above point there must be option for counting total pages by page size.
Query based filters must be provided.

Likelihood to Recommend

Getting data using query with multiple joins is very fast with Metabase, and role-based access to the reports can be provided to users. The only place it lags right now is the filter for page and page size. This comes with great support for container-based deployment and on-system deployment, too. I did both container and system direct installation, and direct deployment became a bit challenging. On the other hand, it really provides very good support for data representation.

Verified User

Manager in Research & Development (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Metabase: The perfect reporting solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 31, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for all of our internal reporting, across each department, and are the centralised data team for creating reports and managing data and access. Metabase is the perfect tool, as it is scalable, and the levels of granular permissions mean that it is easy to give access to the data colleagues need to do their jobs most effectively.

Pros

Visualisation
Simplicity
Permissions

Cons

Report Types
Updates
Colour/Branding

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well-suited in growing organizations, at a company of the size I work at it is the perfect solution in terms of functionality and cost. Compared to other solutions like PowerBI etc, which can run into the hundreds of thousands just to implement, Metabase is fantastic. In terms of scalability, as we grow, there will be inevitable questions over how well we can grow with Metabase.

Samuel Allen

Head of Data in Research & Development at Airtime Rewards (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great BI and Data Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as our core BI platform to store and analyze data across the entire surface area of our organization. We use it to store data, analyze data, and generate reports for our customers to understand platform performance. We also have plenty of dashboards built to make quick analysis of whats going on.

Pros

Store Data
Make Querying easy
Quickly ingest data from many sources

Cons

Natural language querying could be a little easier
easier to edit queries
easier joins

Likelihood to Recommend

Metabase is great if you have a lot of data coming in from a lot of sources and want to understand and analyze that complete data set. Its great for customization of dashboards etc. but is not the MOST intuitive tool out there so some technical experience is certainly required to get it going and get the most out of the platform.

Verified User

Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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