Administration Guide

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

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 for dates and numbers
• Caching query results

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:

• Setting data permissions
• Creating and managing collections

Embedding and sharing with public links:

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

First things first, you'll need to install Metabase. If you haven’t done that yet, our Installation Guide will help you through the process.

Already done with that? Then let’s start by going over how to connect Metabase to your database.