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Stack

Monitoring Analytics

Metabase OSS - the BI tool non-analysts actually use: point-and-click questions, dashboards, and SQL when you want it. One JVM container + a managed Postgres for the app database.

Configuration

Type
Compose
Platform
linux
Env vars
MB_SITE_URL=http://localhost:5000
Source
Repo

Template by deployable-sh·Source

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Services

metabase

Configuration

Image
metabase/metabase:v0.63.1.x
Ports
5000:5000
Env vars
MB_JETTY_PORT=5000MB_DB_TYPE=postgresMB_DB_HOST=dbMB_DB_PORT=5432MB_DB_DBNAME=metabaseMB_DB_USER=metabaseMB_DB_PASS=metabase-local-onlyMB_SITE_URL=${MB_SITE_URL:-http://localhost:5000}JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Xmx1g
Restart
unless-stopped

Image details

Pulls: 273.1M
User: metabase
Created: Oct 07, 2015
Updated: 1 hour ago
Status: active

db

Configuration

Image
postgres:17
Volumes
/var/lib/postgresql/data : dbdata
Env vars
POSTGRES_USER=metabasePOSTGRES_PASSWORD=metabase-local-onlyPOSTGRES_DB=metabase
Restart
unless-stopped

Image details

Pulls: 11.6B
User: stackbrew
Created: Jun 05, 2014
Updated: 1 hour ago
Status: active

Standalone Install

Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Metabase

Installation method

Install on Portainer

Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys

  1. Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
  2. Log into your Portainer web UI
  3. Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
  4. Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
  5. Select Metabase, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

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Original stackfile

The compose file this template deploys, straight from its repo:

name: metabase

services:
  metabase:
    image: metabase/metabase:v0.63.1.x
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MB_JETTY_PORT: "5000"
      MB_DB_TYPE: postgres
      MB_DB_HOST: db
      MB_DB_PORT: "5432"
      MB_DB_DBNAME: metabase
      MB_DB_USER: metabase
      MB_DB_PASS: metabase-local-only
      MB_SITE_URL: ${MB_SITE_URL:-http://localhost:5000}
      JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx1g
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    depends_on:
      - db

  db:
    image: postgres:17
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: metabase
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: metabase-local-only
      POSTGRES_DB: metabase
    volumes:
      - dbdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data

volumes:
  dbdata:

Or deploy it directly from the source:

git clone https://github.com/deployable-sh/stacks
cd stacks
docker compose -f metabase/compose.yaml up -d

More install options in our documentation.

Container Documentation

metabase Documentation

Metabase Open-source Edition Docker image.

db Documentation

The PostgreSQL object-relational database system provides reliability and data integrity.

Serve Metabase on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.

Proxying metabase.example.com to http://metabase:5000

Add this to your Caddyfile

metabase.example.com {
	reverse_proxy http://metabase:5000
}

Check the logs first

Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.

  • In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run docker logs <container>
  • Exit codes help too: 137 means killed, usually out of memory. 126 or 127 means the command inside the image is broken.

Port already in use

If deployment fails with "Bind for 0.0.0.0:5000 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.

  • Find what's using it: sudo ss -tlnp | grep :5000
  • Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In 5000:5000 only the left number is yours to change, the right one belongs to the app.

Running but the page won't load

The container is up but nothing appears in your browser.

  • Use your server's real IP: http://your-server-ip:5000. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address.
  • Give it a minute after first deploy, metabase can take a while to initialise.
  • Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g. sudo ufw allow 5000

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull metabase/metabase:v0.63.1.x

  • "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists.
  • "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with docker login to raise it.
  • "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with docker system prune

"exec format error"

This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.

  • Check yours with uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.

Container keeps restarting

The unless-stopped restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.

  • Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
  • Get the exit code with docker inspect <container> --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to no so the failure stays visible.

Stack won't deploy

Compose stacks fail fast on small mistakes, and Portainer shows the reason just above the editor.

  • YAML only accepts spaces for indentation, a single tab breaks the whole file.

Raise an issue

Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.

A Compose stack

Metabase is a Compose stack, a set of containers (2 of them) defined in one file and brought up together by Portainer, then started and stopped as a single app.

The services

This stack is built from 2 containers that run side by side. Here's each one, with the image it runs and anything it waits for first:

  • metabase runs metabase/metabase:v0.63.1.x, starts after db
  • db runs postgres:17

Ports

A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 5000:5000 means it's reachable on port 5000 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. It opens:

  • 5000:5000

Volumes

A volume is where Metabase keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:

  • /var/lib/postgresql/data kept in the dbdata volume Docker manages

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Metabase takes 12 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:

  • MB_JETTY_PORT, defaults to 5000
  • MB_DB_TYPE, defaults to postgres
  • MB_DB_HOST, defaults to db
  • MB_DB_PORT, defaults to 5432
  • MB_DB_DBNAME, defaults to metabase
  • MB_DB_USER, defaults to metabase
  • MB_DB_PASS, defaults to metabase-local-only
  • MB_SITE_URL, defaults to http://localhost:5000
  • JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS, defaults to -Xmx1g
  • POSTGRES_USER, defaults to metabase
  • POSTGRES_PASSWORD, defaults to metabase-local-only
  • POSTGRES_DB, defaults to metabase

Restart policy

The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts Metabase after a crash or reboot, but leaves it off when you stop it on purpose. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).

Networking

Portainer puts these services on one shared private network, so they can find each other by name (like metabase) while only the ports above are open to you.

Platform

The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.

Portainer app templates

Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set Metabase up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Metabase is a click rather than a wall of config.