Metabase BI

Build self-service analytics with Metabase. Creates questions and native SQL queries, designs dashboards with filters, sets up models and a semantic layer, configures signed embedding and permissions, and automates assets through the Metabase API.

This skill builds business intelligence with Metabase: authoring questions with the query builder and native SQL, designing dashboards with linked filters and drill-through, creating models and a lightweight semantic layer, configuring signed and interactive embedding, managing groups and data permissions, and automating dashboards and alerts through the Metabase REST API.

When to use

Use when building Metabase dashboards or questions, writing native SQL with filters, setting up models and permissions, or embedding Metabase analytics in an app.

Examples

Build a KPI dashboard

Charts with linked filters

Build a Metabase dashboard for revenue, active users, and churn with a date-range filter that drives every card

Native SQL question

Parameterized query

Write a Metabase native SQL question with a field filter on plan tier that returns MRR by month

Signed embedding

Secure app embed

Set up signed embedding for a Metabase dashboard so each customer only sees their own account's data