Kibana

Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 16 threads.

People raised many different problems with Kibana, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

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 17 complaints

Hard to tell what went wrong or whether anything did2025-12-21
Query language is unfamiliar, so during outages users must relearn docs to search2025-02-27
Finds the interface very frustrating to use2025-02-26
Slow query response times make filtering logs annoying2024-05-28
Constant switching between query and visualization tools is agonizing and breaks investigation flow2023-01-24
Kibana's search and filtering is often annoying to use2022-12-13
List page loads full message bodies, making it slow despite showing only a few kilobytes2021-09-28
Discover panel is painfully slow to interact with, even on newer hardware2020-12-31
Hard to dig down into logs; exact string searches return fuzzy matches instead2020-01-03
Pressing Enter searches the first autocomplete suggestion instead of the typed text, forcing mouse use2019-03-20
Tailing logs in the web UI is clunky compared with grep and tail2018-12-12
Feels slow to use, attributed to its JavaScript2018-03-21
Kibana 4 interface is confusing, more so than the previous version2016-02-18
Kibana and Elasticsearch are fiddly and need constant devops attention2016-02-01
Kibana 4 lacks basic features like setting graph colors, a step backwards from version 32015-11-09
Kibana's UI feels laggy and slow to respond in brief use2015-04-27
Dashboard never loads with 75,000 records, and is too slow even at 10,0002015-02-06