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    Hologres:Metabase

    Last Updated:Feb 04, 2026

    Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. It helps you understand and analyze data, run queries, and view formatted results, such as graphs, to make data-driven decisions. Hologres is compatible with PostgreSQL and supports direct connections to Metabase for data analytics. This topic describes how to connect Metabase to Hologres and perform visual analytics on your data.

    Notes

    When Metabase connects to Hologres and reads the database metadata, it automatically filters out schemas that do not contain any tables. These schemas are not displayed in the data list.

    Procedure

    1. Install Metabase

      Install Metabase. For more information, see the official Metabase documentation.

    2. Connect to Hologres

      1. Log on to Metabase. In the upper-right corner of the top navigation bar, click the 设置 icon, and then click Administrator from the drop-down menu.管理员

      2. At the top of the Metabase Admin page, click Database. In the upper-right corner of the Databases page, click Add database.添加数据库

      3. Select a database type, configure the connection parameters, and then click Save.参数配置

        The following table describes the parameters.

        Parameter

        Description

        Database type

        From the drop-down list, select PostgreSQL.

        Host

        The public endpoint of the Hologres instance. You can find the endpoint in the Network Information section on the instance details page of the Hologres console.

        Port

        The port of the Hologres instance. You can find the port in the Network Information section on the instance details page of the Hologres console.

        Database name

        The name of the Hologres database.

        Username

        The AccessKey ID of your Alibaba Cloud account. To obtain an AccessKey ID, see Create an AccessKey pair.

        Password

        The AccessKey secret of your Alibaba Cloud account. To obtain an AccessKey secret, see Create an AccessKey pair.

        More parameters

        For more information about other parameters, see the official Metabase documentation.

    3. Analyze data

      After the configuration is complete, you can analyze your data in Hologres. For more information about data analytics, see the official Metabase documentation.

      Note