Loki

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Loki, 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 5 complaints

New query language and counter-intuitive configuration with a long ramp-up time2026-06-20
Promtail configuration is obtuse and not user friendly2024-04-09
Setting up the log tool was a pain and nonintuitive2024-04-09
Engineers must pre-plan labels and wait on slow regex searches; full-text search is hard to use2023-09-18
Query language is awkward and takes time to learn compared to alternatives2022-04-28