Publicly-accessible Metabase instances

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I run a Metabase instance for an open-source blockchain project called Helium: https://helium.com – our Metabase is here: https://etl.dewi.org

Our goal is to provide this as a public service for the community, since it is difficult to run a full node and the associated postgres database. Requires maintenance, 400GB+ in storage, lots of RAM, etc. We want more folks doing analysis of this dataset and want to make it as easy-to-access as possible. This is a public dataset so we are not concerned about security or proprietary information.

Ideally I could make our Metabase instance entirely publicly-accessible, even without signup. I don’t mean sharing each query or dashboard indvidually, which we already do – I mean actually public, maybe in a read-only kind of way.

Alternately it’d be great if folks could at least self-serve signup for an account.

Curious if others have tried something like this. I didn’t see many options related to this apart from some mention of enterprise/white-labeling features.

I’m also a developer and happy to try hacking this in myself. It’s been a long time since I touched Java, so any pointers toward places in the codebase where I should get started (or prior art) would be welcome.

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Hi jamiew - this was awesome when it was up. Is it no longer public?
-- longtime helium patron and friend
Jameson

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It's still there and used every day: https://etl.dewi.org

Due to the lack of public-read-only or self-serve registration there is just some shared credentials:

user: test@test.com
pass: test123

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These login data aren't available. Did change the public access ?

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They opened access so everyone with a google account can login. You need a google account though.

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Hi - We created a Python Flask server that uses a simple WP Forms URL redirect with query parameters.

The server runs in the background and WP forms redirects the form input to the server. The server then creates the desired user and adds it to the desired group. You can check out our GitHub repository with HOWTO here: