Deploy Metabase

Metabase is an easy, open-source way to derive insights from data:

• Let anyone on your team ask questions without knowing SQL.
• Rich beautiful dashboards with auto refresh and fullscreen.
• SQL Mode for analysts and data pros.
• Create canonical segments and metrics for your team to use.
• Send data to Slack or email on a schedule with Pulses.
• View data in Slack anytime with MetaBot.
• Humanize data for your team by renaming, annotating and hiding fields.

You can deploy Metabase on Render in under 5 minutes. It is backed by Render’s fully-managed PostgreSQL and can be used to gain insights from any supported database including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Analytics, and MongoDB.

1. Create a new PostgreSQL database on Render and copy the internal DB URL to use below. This is the database where Metabase stores its own data. You will configure a connection to your application database in Metabase after installation.

2. Fork render-examples/metabase on GitHub.

3. Create a new Web Service on Render, and give Render permission to access your new repo.

4. Select Docker for the environment, and add the following environment variable under the Advanced section:

   Key	Value
   MB_DB_CONNECTION_URI	The internal connection string for the database you created above.

   You can optionally encrypt your Metabase database connection details by adding the MB_ENCRYPTION_SECRET_KEY environment variable as described in the Metabase operations guide.

That’s it! Metabase will be live on your Render URL as soon as the Docker build finishes.

Next, create a Metabase admin account and connect to your database using the Metabase Setup Guide. Soon everyone in your team will be uncovering data insights with your shiny Metabase instance on Render! 🙌

Upgrading Metabase

When you first install Metabase, Render will use the latest stable version in the Dockerfile:

FROM metabase/metabase:latest

To upgrade, simply trigger a manual deploy for Metabase in your Render dashboard.

You can also use a specific version of Metabase in your Dockerfile:

FROM metabase/metabase:v0.35.1

Commit and push your changes and Render will automatically upgrade and deploy your Metabase instance.