Using Metabase as an Admin Dashboard

[hwelch-fle]

Not really related to Planka development, but I have come across a pretty slick way to monitor my instance at a very high level without having to navigate a ton of projects and boards by linking the Postgres database to a service like Metabase (I'm sure this method would work well with other BI systems too).

Project Boards:

Dashboard on Metabase filtered on example project:

Setting it up should be pretty self explanatory, you only need to add the Planka Postgres database as a datasource, Metabase does a good job of pre-populating the field types and even unrolls the JSON timer field for you. I just filled out some metadata and formatted the ID fields for card and board to generate a link to my instance with the ID inserted.

If there's any interest in a more detailed explanation of the setup I'd be glad to write up a guide, but I just thought I'd share this for now to see if this is something that other people might be interested in.