Setup Metabase on your machine in 5 minutes or less!

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence platform. You can use Metabase to ask questions about your data, or embed Metabase in your app to let your customers explore their data on their own. Metabase is easy to setup & use. Metabase provides Interactive Dashboards and Embedded Analytics. This article is a quick setup for anyone looking to try out Metabase, in 5 minutes or less (on your Mac machine).

Pre-requisites

Before you get started, make sure you have Docker or Hombrew Metabase to install Metabase Docker image.

Step #1: Install Metabase

Create and Navigate to the directory where you want to setup Metabase.

mkdir metabase

To install metabase by docker use this command and get the latest Docker image

docker pull metabase/metabase:latest

OR

Use homebrew to install metabase docker image using :

brew install metabase 

Step #2: Verify if the installation has been completed

All you do is type this command:

metabase version

The output should look something like this:

Step #3 - Let's get started

Metabase is now already installed on your machine. Start docker by using :

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name metabase metabase/metabase

OR

brew services start metabase

Step #4 - Access the Metabase UI and start managing your DAGS

Open any browser and go to http://localhost:3000/. Port 3000 should be the default port for Metabase.

After logging in, we should see the webserver UI of metabase.

That's it - you're already up and running with Metabase.

Conclusion

Hope you enjoyed this article. This is a series of 5-minute articles for anyone looking to quickly get set up on the tools of the modern data stack.