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Acme Analytics is a fictional company. The 540 questions, 18 duplicate groups, and 73 stale items are illustrative of what a typical mid-stage SaaS Metabase looks like after 2 years of self-serve growth. Your real X-Ray is generated from your live instance in under 90 seconds — no editing, no curation.

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Acme Analytics (sample) — X-Ray Report

Scanned on April 29, 2026

C+
58/100

Fair — significant issues to address

A
B+
B
C+
C
D
F
540
Questions
47
Core Tables
18
Duplicate Groups
73
Stale Cards
AI Key Finding

Your Metabase has accumulated 540 questions across 47 core tables, but 14% are stale or broken and 18 duplicate groups are eroding trust. The fastest path to an A grade is archiving the 73 unviewed-90-day questions, then merging the 4 largest duplicate groups (18% of total questions). That alone moves the score from C+ to B+ and removes most of the chaos analysts complain about.

Score Breakdown

Documentation coverage12/25

47 core tables identified — 22 have no description. Auto-generate baseline docs from your dbt manifest or schema comments, then ask owners to review.

Stale content8/20

73 stale questions detected. Bulk-archive in Settings → Auto-Archive, or run our quarterly cleanup workflow to surface them in your inbox.

Duplicate detection11/20

18 duplicate groups found. The top 4 groups account for 96 questions — merging them would remove 18% of total clutter.

Query health14/20

73 questions failed last execution. Most reference dropped columns from the user_events_v1 → v2 migration. Bulk-fix or archive.

Naming consistency13/15

Strong overall — only 24 questions have draft/test/copy in their name.

Top Priority Actions

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Archive 73 stale questions

Unviewed in 90+ days, not embedded in any dashboard, not used as a base question for SQL snippets.

+8 health score, removes 14% of clutter

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Merge top 4 duplicate groups

Acme Revenue MoM (12 copies), New User Activation (24), Churn by Plan (31), Top Customers This Quarter (29). Each group has one canonical version with the highest view count.

+6 health score, 96 fewer questions to maintain

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Document 22 undocumented core tables

Tables include orders, subscriptions, accounts, events, customers — the highest-traffic tables in your instance. Use the AI doc-gen or pull from dbt.

+9 health score, dramatic drop in 'is this column right?' questions

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Fix or archive 47 broken queries from the user_events migration

Reference dropped columns: event_payload, event_user_uuid, raw_event. Most can be auto-rewritten against user_events_v2 — the rest should be archived.

+4 health score, eliminates a long tail of red-banner errors in your dashboards

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Set up the quarterly cleanup workflow

MetaLens auto-surfaces new stale and duplicate questions every 90 days into your inbox, so the instance never re-accumulates.

Prevents future regression — keeps the score steady at B+ or higher

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