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Splunk
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Splunk, 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 9 complaints
- Default settings send excessive system stats, wasting time diagnosing high ingestion volume2023-09-21
- Interface is hostile to users, hard to use2023-09-21
- Must memorize graph behavior, ambiguous menus, and a click path to reach query language2022-01-20
- Dashboards take over a minute to load and reload on every change2020-07-31
- API documentation covers only a small share of the interface, making programmatic use hard2020-07-17
- Splunk has no CLI and loses jobs, making it harder to use than SSH tooling2020-07-14
- Search language has no grammar; effective use requires memorizing a grab bag of special commands2018-07-11
- Finds it annoying to deploy, needing rsyslog-in-front-of-forwarders workarounds2016-12-20
- Interface is slow to interact with2012-04-19