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More, Better, Faster: How we automate Metabase releases
Releasing Metabase used to involve working through a long checklist by hand. Today, we ship a new patch every day without anyone lifting a finger. Here’s how we got there.I started in the manual...
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Making BI migrations suck less
Let’s be honest, migrating from one BI tool to another can suck. It’s a lot of work, there are a lot of moving parts, and it can get overwhelming fast. I’ve worked on a few BI migrations, and I’ve seen...
View ArticleWhat is a semantic layer? A definition for the AI analytics era
If you’re a data person building with AI, you’ve probably been questioning the role of the semantic layer. Do you build a thorough semantic layer to give context? Or do you allow the model to build...
View ArticleAugust 2026 Security Vulnerability: What happened?
On August 3, 2026, one of our Metabase Cloud customers reported that an API key had been created outside of normal working hours.We investigated and noticed an anomalous access pattern - a single IP...
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Join us for AI Analytics Week
AI has made basic analysis easier than ever. Ask a question, get a chart, done.What’s harder, and where the real value is now, is everything around it: making sure the answer is actually correct....
View ArticleSecurity update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now
If you are an active Metabase user, we have important information to share about a recent security incident.We recently identified that Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown...
View ArticleSecurity-focused Metabase Release Announcement
Following our security update last week, today we are releasing hardened versions of Metabase which incorporate several security improvements, including hardening our api and fixing issues that are...
View ArticleSecurity update available for Metabase - Please upgrade now
If you are an active Metabase user, we have important information to share about a recent security incident.We recently identified that Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown...
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How we picked LibreChat — and ended up with a Slack agent
Like a lot of projects on Metabase’s Cloud team, this one started as a boring corporate-IT problem that quietly turned into something I use every single day. We set out to consolidate a pile of AI...
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Metabase alternatives: comparing platforms for AI analytics
A snapshot of the business intelligence landscape in 2026: who’s racing to bolt AI onto a legacy dashboard tool, who’s building AI-native from scratch, and where Metabase fits (with a Metabase twist,...
View ArticlePA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation
Think of all the stuff you have to do every morning before you even start coding. You need to get caught up from the day before, look over your tickets, figure out which one to work on, clone the right...
View ArticleIntroducing the Claude skill for learning Metabase
We’ve built a Claude skill that teaches you Metabase. It keeps track of what it has already covered, uses your own data for examples, and is designed for learning not just one-off questions.Why use AI...
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AI for everyone, with confidence
TL;DRAI is everywhere, and everyone’s exploring what it can do while feeling out the limits. Metabase is building the infrastructure to make sure you can use AI with confidence.AI analytics without...
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Metabase + OpenAI Codex
We’re excited to announce that Metabase is now available as a plugin in ChatGPT and Codex, part of OpenAI’s new data analytics launch. You can now connect your Metabase instance directly to Codex, ask...
View ArticleWelcome to the strip mining era of open source security
Open source software is in for a rough 2026 summer. If you’re an Open Source maintainer, there’s something afoot you should already know about. If you’re an OSS user, you should be aware of it as it’ll...
View ArticleWelcome to the strip mining era of open source security
Open source software is in for a rough 2026 summer. If you’re an Open Source maintainer, there’s something afoot you should already know about. If you’re an OSS user, you should be aware of it as it’ll...
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Winners of the Metabase AI Hackathon
We ran the Metabase AI Hackathon to celebrate every AI feature in Metabase going open source.The submissions were genuinely fun to go through: analytics agents, new products, an entire API with machine...
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Improving the performance of the popular Clojure development tool clojure-lsp
Development tools can sometimes struggle when dealing with large codebases. This gives performance nerds like me a reason to investigate. In this case, I ended up cutting clojure-lsp’s startup time in...
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Metabase AI Hackathon
Show us what you can build with the new AI tools and get the chance to win a Metabase mechanical keyboard.Metabase now ships an MCP server, an Agent API, and Metabot in Slack: three different ways to...
View ArticleHow we built ten custom agents to tame our giant codebase
Metabase’s backend is big. We’re talking 500K lines of Clojure code spread across a query processor, permissions system, numerous database drivers, a notification pipeline, serialization layer, search...
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