Metabase

Metabase is a frontend service that provides configurable dashboards for displaying Drill4J's metrics.

Installation#

To install Metabase, follow the steps described in local-deployment.

Before you start using Metabase, you need to configure it. Here are the steps to do that:

Metabase uses the Drill4J database to fetch the data. To set up the Drill4J database connection, follow these steps:

Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner and select Admin settings.

Swagger UI

Move to the Databases menu on the header and click on the Drill4J_PostgreSQL_DB record.

Swagger UI

Check the Database connection details and fix them if needed.

Swagger UI

And click on the `Save changes` button.

Metabase uses the Site URL to generate links to the dashboards. To set the Site URL, follow these steps:

Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner and select Admin settings.

Swagger UI

Move to the General tab and set the Site URL field.

Swagger UI

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I don't see the Metabase authentication form and instead presented with this message:
"Welcome to Metabase - Looks like everything is working. Now let’s get to know you, connect to your data, and start finding you some answers!
- Reason: Metabase was not propertly initalized. You likely have either skipped downloading data.sql file or misplaced it. Make sure to put it in db-init folder next to the docker-compose.yml file.
Metabase widgets sometimes display correctly and sometimes show errors at random times.
- The cause might be the inability to allocate shared memory to the PostgreSQL Docker container. To confirm the cause, you can check the Metabase logs and see an error like:
pq: could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.XXX" to XXX bytes: No space left on device
To fix it ensure that you add shm-size parameter to the docker-compose.yml file:
postgres:
image: postgres:17.0
shm_size: 1g