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Metabase Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the ease of use in Metabase, allowing seamless dashboard creation and efficient data sharing. (7 mentions)
Users find Metabase's SQL query capabilities excellent for complex analyses and seamless data sharing and visualization. (5 mentions)
Users praise the data visualization capabilities of Metabase, noting its ease of use for diverse queries. (4 mentions)
Users value the efficient SQL querying capabilities of Metabase, enhancing their analysis and dashboard experience. (4 mentions)
Users value the excellent customer support that assists with various queries and enhances their experience. (3 mentions)
Users experience slow loading times for dashboards, especially with numerous graphs or charts, impacting usability. (2 mentions)
Users face dashboard visibility issues, making it difficult to track who receives each subscription alert. (1 mentions)
Users face issues with dashboard visibility, as they cannot see who the dashboard subscriptions are sent to. (1 mentions)
Users find design limitations in Metabase, suggesting it could enhance its graphical aspects for better usability. (1 mentions)
Users find it initially difficult to customize tables in Metabase, impacting their overall usability and experience. (1 mentions)

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Metabase Pros and Cons

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Shubham  G.
SG
Product Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

Powerful visualization with ease of writing native queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

Requires knowledge of SQL to get the best out of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Giovanni K B.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

It has a great UX and is very straightforward to use, and advanced users can easily drop into SQL if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

That not many people know about it, so whenever I bring it to a new company there is some resistance from folks that prefer other brands that invest more in marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nandan S.
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Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

Ease of writing queries, and dashboard creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

Limitations in visualization tools and its usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning
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What do you like best about Metabase?

The visualizations are pretty great and the platform is quite easy to customize according to needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

The platform only uses basic programming languages and becomes quite slow when a large user base uses it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammed N.
MN
Group Financial Accountant
Accounting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

It's easy to follow market trends using Metabase. The analysis is seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

It could be more visually attractive with the charts of trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Metabase?

-Ease of querying information

-Custom filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

-The error detection in queries can be slightly better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

Our team loves how easy it is for developers to build reports and share them with internal teams and automate daily/weekly reporting. Integrations with email and slack make Metabase even more powerful. 💪 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

Pricing may be considered high for an early-stage company but their OSS/self-hosted version more than makes up for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin D.
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Chief Technology Officer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

Open Source, user-friendliness, easy integration with controllable filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

A bit on the heavy side in terms of RAM usage, queries sometimes fail without clear reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

Metabas was easy to set up and configure and even easier to utilize and build Questions and Queries as it pertained to immediate data needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

Not many negative things to say about the platform - it solved an immediate need for data analytics for our business users without any technical resources allocated to achieving the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aleksei A.
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Head Of Analytics
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Metabase?

It is free. Functionality is very powerful, supports almost all data sources you would like to connect to it. Bugs are getting fixed quickly, a lot of updates with new functionality. Really love their answers section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Metabase?

Canvas for dashboards is limited. Can't blend data coming from different data sources. In case if data is stored in a different database you first need to pre-process it in some sort of DWH before getting connected to Metabase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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