Metabase 51 has a bunch of new stuff to help your team make the most of your data: viz upgrades, drill-through improvements, more tools to manage accounts and keep your Metabase tidy, and a lot more.
, we’ll be rolling out these new features automatically over the next few weeks.
If you’re self-hosting Metabase, you (or your admin) can follow the docs on . Think Loom recordings, Google Docs, a Typeform widget survey—whatever you can dream up and put in an iframe, you can now put on your Metabase dashboard. Have everything in one dashboard so people have all the context in one place.
. Join two or more metrics to make a new metric, or join with additional data sources, e.g., to find the revenue from your department.
Metrics could previously only be created and viewed by admins. Now anyone can create new metrics and save to collections. Like models, metrics now have their own page you can browse. Admins can also mark vetted metrics as official, so people know they’re using moderated calculations.
When you upgrade, Metabase will move any existing metrics you have into a new collection (you'll no longer see metrics in your admin settings).
New time grouping widgets let people view dashboards by year, quarter, month, week, day, and more
If you’ve got a KPI that you want to view by week, month, quarter, etc., now you’re just a click away from adjusting the time granularity without having to rewrite the query for different
It’s official: Databricks driver is here
Databricks was previously available as a community driver, which meant you could connect to Metabase, but it was !
to send notifications to pretty much any platform. Add to Zapier then send updates anywhere, like to MS Teams, to a database—even fax for those with strict compliance requirements.
This is a step towards expanding our notification options in Metabase with more to come over in future releases. Think subscriptions, system events, and more.
Add way more context in your tooltips
to give more context when people hover over your charts. By default, tooltips will only show what’s on the chart. If there’s more going on below the surface that you’d like to show, head to your visualization settings and choose which supplementary metrics to include.
to manage who gets an account vs. who doesn’t, as well as automated deprovisioning of Metabase accounts.
SCIM authentication and user provisioning is available on
Anyone viewing dashboard or question can have more control over what they’re looking at without needing to edit a query or change the view for everyone else. You--or people looking at your dashboards and charts--can click on the bubbles in the chart legend to hide series, and click again to show.
New sunburst chart visualization
with the new sunburst charts that let you add more rings to your pie.
You now have more flexibility and control over how your pie chart legends are named, ordered, what to show and hide, or how many decimal places to include.
Pivot tables will keep all their pivoty goodness when exported in a download or dashboard subscription, so you can continue working on the table in Excel.
Another thing: by default, all exported data keeps the formatting you set in Metabase (e.g., if you formatted 187.50 as \$187.50), but you can opt to download without formatting if you take your data raw.
Questions created with SQL now have more interactivity
If “Drill-through doesn’t work on SQL questions” looks familiar to you - we’ve got great news. Now when you click on table results and charts made with SQL, you’ll see column-heading filters, distribution, and drill-through options. There are still some things sacred to the realm of questions made with the query builder, like the ability to breakout by category, and ‘See all records’, but our updates to the native query editor will help people pull threads and explore data in more places, regardless of whether the question was made with SQL or the query editor. No configuration needed.
Even the trash gets a glow-up
Does what it says on the trashcan tin. Archiving content was often done with the intention of getting rid of it. Although items were out of sight and out of mind, they weren’t really gone. If you got a link to an archived item you couldn’t see it or resurrect it. Now, if you happen to see something that’s been trashed, there’ll be a clear indication with a banner and you’ll have the option to restore or delete it permanently.
is a manual process. Automatic clean-up is coming soon. .
Embedding improvements
Embedded analytics SDK is available in beta for the most modular, flexible embedding ever
Use React to embed individual components of Metabase like charts, dashboards, or even the query builder on its own. Style each component to fit seamlessly with your app, and tailor the level of access and interactivity per person or group. All the best bits of Metabase ready to embed, unconstrained by an iframe for maximum control and customization options.
Try the .
Export static and public embeds to PDF
Controls for downloading questions to PDF are now more consistent (and generally just better) on static embeds and public links. Admins on .
Improved transparent theme for static and public embeds
We’ve introduced the option to choose between the light and dark themes and optionally toggle background transparency. Transparent mode isn’t new, but we’ve taken on your feedback about what was working and what wasn’t to give you a toggle that ensures your static embeds blend more smoothly, without disappearing entirely 🎩🪄
Stable entity IDs for moving content across instances with serialization
For those of you using serialization to move dashboards, questions, and other things between instances, inconsistent IDs can make it way harder than it needs to be. .
Metabase Cloud Storage: you don't need a database to get started with Metabase
Start analyzing and visualizing your data even if you don’t have a data team or the technical skills to set up a database on your own. .
New environment variable limits on how much data you can download
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Or if you want to get into the nitty-gritty, check out our .
Cheers,
The Metabase Team
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