Introduction
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence (BI) tool that allows users to ask questions of their data, build dashboards, and track metrics. Metabase has a simple, web-based interface with no code required.
Metabase provides a lightweight, intuitive interface that democratizes access to data while maintaining governance and security. Metabase makes key data available to stakeholders across the organization and supporting a culture of informed, data-driven decision-making.
Key benefits of using Metabase include:
Simple, No-Code Querying: Enables users to build visualizations and answer questions using an intuitive GUI without writing SQL—ideal for non-technical users.
SQL Mode for Power Users: Offers full SQL editing capabilities for advanced analysis, transformations, and dashboard creation.
Rich Visualization Library: Supports a variety of charts, tables, maps, and custom visualizations to effectively communicate insights.
Interactive Dashboards and Alerts: Allows creation of dynamic, filterable dashboards and scheduled alerts to monitor metrics and notify teams of anomalies or thresholds.
Secure Access and Permissions: Provides role-based access control for datasets, dashboards, and collections, ensuring appropriate visibility and compliance across teams.
Metabase is used for everything from product analytics and A/B test monitoring to internal reporting and performance tracking. It connects seamlessly to data warehouse (e.g., BigQuery or Snowflake) and sits alongside other tools like dbt, Airflow, and Unity Catalog to provide a complete data access and exploration ecosystem.
By adopting Metabase, Cake empowers every team to explore, visualize, and understand data on their own—lowering the barrier to insight and enabling faster, smarter decisions across the platform.