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Comment by sixhobbits | Hacker News Reader

metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.

I want to love Metabase, I really do. But some of the UI decisions are mind boggling. Why is accessing reports and dashboards so difficult? Things are hidden away under poorly named constructs. Buttons don't do what I'd expect them to do...

It's great but it comes with a few drawbacks.

Their embedding is pretty darn decent. You could do something like set up a key or key per role in Wordpress and embed them as a post type (or your CMS of choice) in an Intranet if you wanted a little more control over it.

You need to set up a signing key on the backend, which is a good thing. Many dashboard sharing schemes end up being public or with very weak security.

I didn't find this at all - it's great to be able to pin a bunch of dashboards to the main page that users see when logging in, and to allow them to drill down from the dashboard by filtering their own data, or downloading a CSV.

The UI for creating dashboards isn't the best, but it's really nice to be able to drop down to SQL so easily and share or embed results.

I second this. I used database about 5/6 years ago and it was amazing. But they started to add collections a d my collections and a bunch of stuff and now everything seems hidden.

I still use it (deployed it at my current company and the CEO loves h iui s dashboard). But I hate the way things are hidden in the current layout.

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