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InfluxDB
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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SQL-like query language is confusingly similar to SQLUnreviewed
20152026- Three overlapping query languages cause confusion, and mixing them makes it worse2022-01-29
- SQL-like query language is similar enough to SQL to be confusing2021-08-27
- Query language is so abstruse the commenter couldn't get past it2019-01-24
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 22 complaints
- Deprecation notice is unreadable white-on-green and looks like an ad, so users miss it2023-07-10
- Three overlapping query languages cause confusion, and mixing them makes it worse2022-01-29
- SQL-like query language is similar enough to SQL to be confusing2021-08-27
- Changing retention policy can wipe all data and lock the instance for hours2021-08-26
- Couldn't write queries needed to aggregate counter deltas across devices2021-08-26
- Debugging is very hard; cannot print single values, only graphs2021-06-23
- Can't make one notification rule fire for both Critical and OK, must maintain two rules2020-11-11
- Query language can express the bandwidth calculation but returns incorrect results2020-08-30
- High cardinality tags make the OSS version perform so poorly it's nearly unusable2020-05-30
- Found the product too busy and unintuitive to use2020-02-11
- Query language is so abstruse the commenter couldn't get past it2019-01-24
- Can't figure out how to write a query summing packet counts across devices2019-01-24
- Slow and buggy to use, with paradigms changed every other version2019-01-24
- Hard to operate and upgrade, with little community knowledge for tuning and troubleshooting2018-08-16
- Same-named tags and fields silently slow queries 1000x, with no clue why2018-08-15
- Reporting tools like Crystal Reports can't connect, forcing custom nightly scripts to move data2018-01-25
- Learn more button leads to a 404 and a modal blocks the page2016-12-03
- Features were stripped from the admin UI until it was disabled, losing simple graphing and debugging2016-12-03
- Signup dialog appears immediately on landing and can't be dismissed without subscribing2016-12-03
- Mouse scrolling moves only a tiny bit, and a survey pops up on every page load2016-08-23
- Earlier versions used far too much storage and were hard to get working smoothly2016-06-23
- Documentation unclear on how to use tags versus fields2015-06-11