This project is a fork of Metabase and is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).
Modifications & Changes
This fork includes modifications to the original project. The key changes include:
- Increased the default image preview size in tables.
- Disabled some Databricks driver checks to ensure its compatibility with legacy Databricks deployments.
All changes are publicly available under the AGPL-3.0 license, and the full source code can be accessed here.
License Notice
This software is distributed under the terms of the AGPL-3.0 license. A copy of the license is included in this repository as LICENSE-AGPL.txt or can be found at: 📜 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
Metabase is the easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
The easiest way to get started with Metabase is to sign up for a free trial of Metabase Cloud. You get support, backups, upgrades, an SMTP server, SSL certificate, SoC2 Type 2 security auditing, and more (plus your money goes toward improving Metabase). Check out our quick overview of cloud vs self-hosting. If you need to, you can always switch to self-hosting Metabase at any time (or vice versa).
- Set up in five minutes (we're not kidding).
- Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL.
- Use the SQL editor for more complex queries.
- Build handsome, interactive dashboards with filters, auto-refresh, fullscreen, and custom click behavior.
- Create models that clean up, annotate, and/or combine raw tables.
- Define canonical segments and metrics for your team to use.
- Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with dashboard subscriptions.
- Set up alerts to have Metabase notify you when your data changes.
- Embed charts and dashboards in your app, or even your entire Metabase.
Take a tour of Metabase.
Metabase can be run just about anywhere. Check out our Installation Guides.
In order to spin up a development environment, you need to start the front end and the backend as follows:
The following command will install the Javascript dependencies:
$ yarn install
To build and run without watching changes:
$ yarn build
To build and run with hot-reload:
$ yarn build-hot
In order to run the backend, you'll need to build the drivers first, and then start the backend:
$ ./bin/build-drivers.sh
$ clojure -M:run
For a more detailed setup of a dev environment for Metabase, check out our Developers Guide.
You need Babashka to run The Metabase Automation Genius Engine (MAGE). Run ./bin/mage to list your tasks. All of them support -h to learn more and show examples.
$ ./bin/mage
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The Metabase Automation Genius Engine
The following tasks are available:
cljfmt-staged Runs cljfmt on staged files
...
kondo Runs Kondo against a file, directory, or everything we usually lint
...
start-db Start a db on a default port in docker
jar-download Given a version, downloads a metabase jar
$ ./bin/mage kondo -h
<prints help for easily running kondo>Run ./bin/mage -autocomplete and follow the instructions to setup autocomplete in your terminal.
We want Metabase to be available in as many languages as possible. See which translations are available and help contribute to internationalization using our project over at POEditor. You can also check out our policies on translations.
Hit our Query API from Javascript to integrate analytics. Metabase enables your application to:
- Build moderation interfaces.
- Export subsets of your users to third party marketing automation software.
- Provide a custom customer lookup application for the people in your company.
Check out our guide, Working with the Metabase API.
See SECURITY.md for details.
This repository contains the source code for both the Open Source edition of Metabase, released under the AGPL, as well as the commercial editions of Metabase, which are released under the Metabase Commercial Software License.
See LICENSE.txt for details.
Unless otherwise noted, all files © 2025 Metabase, Inc.
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