Prometheus

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Prometheus, 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 12 complaints

Configuring and driving it is awful; query language is partly broken2024-08-10
Configuring all the scrapers and collectors is overly complicated to deploy2023-09-25
Business users must write PromQL queries to get data, and their BI tools can't read the data2022-12-09
Page stops letting user browse after scrolling during load, and runs sluggishly2022-08-16
Ignores iPad keyboard trackpad scrolling and forces touchscreen use2022-08-16
PromQL is hard to understand and documentation and examples are unhelpful2021-06-08
Prometheus query language is a sharp tool that is easy to mess up and takes getting used to2021-05-05
Concepts feel backwards and hard to grasp at scale2020-07-21
Requires crawling hundreds of broken plugins and can't chart well2020-07-17
Relabeling config is confusing, unreadable and hard to understand2016-07-19
Commenter finds the documentation impossible to navigate on an iPad2015-02-04
Pages with hundreds of graphs are unusable and take experts minutes to interpret2015-02-04