Metabase
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I use CLI tools for Git, Atlassian (ACLI), and Metabase”
“you might want to check out Metabase[1].”
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“We use metabase (and generally love it)”
Caveats and dissent
“We used to use Metabase but the cloud / self hosted divide was too much fiddling, along with the expression language.”
“https://www.metabase.com/blog/security-update”
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“Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown (“0-day”) security vulnerability in versions 1.58 and above.”
“a data breach at our business intelligence database provider Metabase that resulted in an attacker accessing customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Metabase is an open source (https://github.com/metabase/metabase) business intelligence software”
“People rather like the product”
Threads where it came up
- Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day 3 mentions
- DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) 2 mentions
- What do you use for your customer facing analytics? 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 1 mention
- How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs 1 mention
Data: metabase.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“We used to use Metabase but the cloud / self hosted divide was too much fiddling, along with the expression language.”
“Here's a (vibe coded) Metabase driver that speaks Quack”
“Metabase”
“We use a read only platform called Metabase”
“dashboards with metabase”
“I use CLI tools for Git, Atlassian (ACLI), and Metabase”
“https://www.metabase.com/blog/security-update”
“Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown (“0-day”) security vulnerability in versions 1.58 and above.”
“a data breach at our business intelligence database provider Metabase that resulted in an attacker accessing customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses”
“a data breach at our business intelligence database provider Metabase”
“Metabase is not going to get meaningful investment from researchers”
“n8n, Metabase, Sentry, Bitbucket Pipelines”
“you might want to check out Metabase[1].”
“[Airbyte, Snowflake, dbt, Metabase, Python]”
“its similar to metabase but easier”
We’ve gone back and forth on this a few times. Early on, we used Metabase for speed. It’s great for internal dashboards and quick customer access, but starts to feel clunky once you care about UX, permissions, and embedding deeply. For customer-facing analytics, we eventually leaned toward building thin custom views on top of a metrics API / warehouse. More work upfront, but you control performance, access, and produ
“We use metabase (and generally love it)”