Syslog

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2011–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Syslog, 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

Inconsistent log formats and dates make parsing tedious and error-prone for developers2021-05-10
PRI number encodes facility and severity in a non-intuitive way that is hard to read at a glance2019-08-05
Log entries lack descriptive format, second-only timestamps, and timezone info, making them hard to interpret2013-07-18
Syslog is hard to configure, and the log files are a mess2013-07-18
Ships with a horrible default config, scattering events randomly across multiple files2011-07-30