OpenSearch Dashboards

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenSearch Dashboards, 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 4 complaints

The Kibana-derived dashboard UI is very slow and buggy to use2025-05-07
Wrong SQL shows a blank screen instead of the actual error2024-12-11
Log search misses terms like filenames and the dashboard UX is slow and unpleasant2024-07-12
Basic autocomplete doesn't work and the project feels laggy2023-08-11