10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Metabase first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Your instance of Metabase was vulnerable to this 0-day.”
regret · production · chocolatkey · 2026-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use metabase (and generally love it) and I'm interested to hear about how other people are using it!”
endorse · production · aed · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At the startup, we didn't run into performance issues.”
endorse · production · matthewhefferon · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Metabase is not materially faster than other BI tools... but it's pretty comparable speed and the whole thing was materially written by like 5 peeps.”
endorse · production · curuinor · 2023-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Last time we tried to use it there were real problems with date filtering in SQL based DBs and it's a must for big datasets”
regret · production · nikita2206 · 2020-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Metabase off and on in prod since 2016. I think you guys are really onto something”
endorse · production · 3 yr · reilly3000 · 2019-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a great project, my only regret is it would be nice to have a purely desktop based front-end utility.”
mixed · personal · sixdimensional · 2017-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Metabase is a good OSS dashboarding and visualization tool we use”
endorse · production · mattbillenstein · 2017-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a local instance of send.firefox.com, redis, metabase, docker registry”
neutral · production · zie · 2020-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Metabase on a 2GB VM on DigitalOcean, costing $15/month”
neutral · production · erikrothoff · 2020-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?