Picture this: your infrastructure team is staring at rows of backup data and usage metrics sprawled across multiple dashboards. Storage utilization charts in one place, policy audits in another, cost overviews buried three menus deep. Everyone swears they know where the truth lives, but nobody agrees which page to trust. That’s exactly the kind of chaos Acronis Metabase was designed to solve.
At its core, Acronis Metabase is the analytics and reporting layer for Acronis’s cyber protection platform. It consolidates backup records, security events, and endpoint activity into one structured data store that is easy to query. Think of it as the observability surface for Acronis operations. Instead of digging through raw logs or API calls, you use Metabase’s engine to visualize historical data, identify anomalies, and prove compliance.
Acronis handles protection, policies, and recovery. Metabase turns those massive data streams into insight. Together they bridge the gap between protection logic and operational visibility. The result is less time searching for answers and more time maintaining uptime.
Integrating Acronis Metabase into your environment starts with connecting it to your existing identity system, such as Okta or Azure AD, using OIDC. Once authenticated, each user’s queries and dashboards can be scoped to their permissions, giving you role-based control that aligns with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 principles. The data itself can be stored in an AWS RDS instance or similar managed database. Engineers typically automate ingestion with scheduled exports from Acronis APIs, then point Metabase at that dataset to generate recurring dashboards and anomaly alerts.
For admins, the sweet spot is automating credential rotation and access revocation. Map resource groups to Metabase collections, limit visibility of sensitive tables, and sync deletion events from your identity provider so nobody keeps ghost access. A quick RBAC audit once a quarter keeps compliance teams smiling.