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How to connect Metabase to a data source via an API instead of a direct DB connection?

Community & CultureParades & CivicsCommunity & Culture / Parades & Civics
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CasualGeneral PublicPublicDevops
When:
July 6, 2026 ยท 10:25 AM
Where:
Metabase Discussion
Source:
Metabase Discussion

Sounds like your infrastructure team has no understanding of databases! I use REST APIs a lot to retrieve data from cloud applications. I then stuff it into a 'proper' database that can be queried. The problem with using REST is that it's very verbose so you end up having to page the data then magically join multiple endpoints at the client side. The only approach that works is if you can pass SQL or some other data language to the REST API but that nullifies their desired security model. They n

CasualGeneral PublicPublicDevops

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    Chicago, IL

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    Community & Culture, Parades & Civics, Community & Culture / Parades & Civics

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