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Metabase MCP Server

Lets AI clients search, explore, query, and visualize data in a Metabase instance.

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Known issues

33 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

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Dropdown filters display as text fields once embedded

Describe the bug

We're experiencing and issue where filters that are set as dropdowns in the Metabse UI are displaying as text fields when embedded in our app.

This is happening to multiple filters, but not to all of them. Additionally, one of the dropdown filters shows one option when there should be four.

Here are screenshots of the two scenarios: image ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/

Read the thread · 2024-08-27 · closed · external user · 19 comments

Cannot summarize columns from joined table based on a Saved Question

Describe the bug Cannot summarize columns from joined table based on a Saved Question. Worked in 0.37.8, but not in 0.38.0-rc4/5 or commit f5efa3b

To Reproduce

  1. Custom question > Sample Dataset > Orders and join Products, and save as "Q1" image
  2. Custom question > Saved Questions > Q1
  3. Summarize Count by Product.Category ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.

Read the thread · 2021-02-11 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

Metric with unnamed Custom Expression breaks Data Model for table

Describe the bug Create a Metric with a Custom Expression without giving it an optional name, and then save the metric and visit Data Model. Now it doesn't load the data on the table for the metric.

Logs I'm not seeing any backend errors. But there's browser errors. While saving the Metric it gave TypeError: prevComponentInstance is null. And when visiting the Data Model, then it shows Error: `query` is a required parameter to format expressions.

To Reproduce

  1. Go

Read the thread · 2019-09-09 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

Auth: AWS Cognito as an SSO provider

Our product infrastructure is built on AWS. The product is hosted on AWS Beanstalk and its authentication is handled by AWS Cognito. We have recently integrated Metabase in our application. Seeing how Metabase offers installation on AWS Beanstalk it would be really helpful if Metabase could provide a SSO option for AWS Cognito. It would make handling permissions and managing user groups easier for us and allow us to truly make a one stop cloud solution.

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Read the thread · 2018-05-18 · open · external user · 5 comments

Field filter mapping dropdown gets cut off

I saw this issue reported on Discourse and recalled that I've seen it before myself.

Very often, when trying to select a table or field in the field filter mapping popover menu, its contents get too tall and it gets chopped off at the top of the screen, making it impossible to select tables at the top.

To reproduce, I've found that it happens reliably when my viewport is shorter than ~750px, and w

Read the thread · 2018-05-15 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

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Auth: JWT + JWKS

Currently the JWT configuration of Metabase Pro/Enterprise uses a "pre-shared key" model where you must configure the JWT pre-shared key with the identity provider and the token they generate must use the same secret key.

This is not common in modern identity systems. Modern identity systems either use OpenID [https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/3101] or a JWKS and sign their JWTs using a public/private asymmetric key pair.

While #3101 covers the full OpenID integration, a must simple

Read the thread · 2025-05-18 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Write about timeouts

We should have a document about all types of timeouts that exist across the app

Read the thread · 2025-05-08 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

MB_API_KEY work only for /api/notify/db/:id endpoint

Describe the bug

I set MB_API_KEY according to your documentation:

MB_API_KEY Type: string Default: null When set, this API key is required for all API requests.

Middleware that enforces validation of the client via the request header X-Metabase-Apikey. If the header is available, then it’s validated against MB_API_KEY. When it matches, the request continues; otherwise it’s blocked with a 403 Forbidden response.

and the only endpoint that i'm able to use using this api key

Read the thread · 2025-03-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Keyless BigQuery Integration with Workload's Service Account

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As mentioned in the documentation found at https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/databases/connections/bigquery, it is necessary to import the Service Account Key for BigQuery integration.

However, managing keys can lead to security risks, as they might get exposed and leaked. And Google now recommends not using service account keys by several

Read the thread · 2025-01-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Adapt server logs viewer to new JSON format

Have a place to display server logs if available. Ideally provide the ability to search them (can be postponed if not straightforward) This is mostly about adapting the existing log viewer from https://metabase-debugger.vercel.app/ to the new JSON format

Read the thread · 2024-11-06 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Add Diagnostic Info as command palette action

Can we add "Download diagnostic information" as an action in the command palette?

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Read the thread · 2024-09-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Document MB_DOWNLOAD_ROW_LIMIT

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Now that we decoupled the csv download from the api, we should document the env var. https://github.com/metabase/metabase/pull/46401

Read the thread · 2024-08-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

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