Nagios

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Nagios, 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 7 complaints

Found writing alerts really hard and the UI is crappy2023-02-03
Configuration is godawful, and users must edit it manually2014-03-04
UI shows stale state for minutes after logs show the change2014-03-04
Clicking the wrong thing crashes the browser because it dumps huge logs2014-03-04
Nagios has a horrible UI, and alternatives require building your own interface2014-03-04
Monitoring tool is ugly, hard to use, and hard to install2012-12-13
Hard to configure and slow to add or remove monitored items2010-04-07