13 engineers on Hacker News describe using Kibana first-hand: 4 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“The UX in kibana in 2016 was better than anything else we have now for rapidly searching through a big haystack”
endorse · production · blyry · 2025-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Kibana for example is a pig to self host, at one point it was taking up 25% of our production capacity.”
regret · production · yarekt · 2025-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“4 of those minutes were waiting for Kibana to load.”
regret · production · qeternity · 2024-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“while its dashboards are not quite as fancy or powerful as Kibana, it's as close to zero-configuration as you can hope.”
endorse · production · piaste · 2021-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Kibana has no qualms sending requests to Elastic that will happily kill your node instead of applying sensible paging / query timeouts.”
regret · production · jrudolph · 2020-01-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) quite heavily for this at my company. It works, and it works well. It's expensive.”
mixed · production · zenexer · 2018-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I find Kibana for more useful probably because we have a lower level of traffic than big boys but still produce an atrocious amount of logging.”
endorse · production · agentgt · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using kibana setup with logstash for allowing us to easily track things we want to track/graph”
endorse · production · j0rd · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an Elasticsearch cluster for logs (also 60d, about 30TB cluster) with Kibana on top.”
neutral · production · lawrjone · 2020-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have kibana to visualize and easily query.”
neutral · production · aprdm · 2018-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For my own small company we use Kibana (the old one that doesn't require NodeJS), Grafana, and Jenkins.”
neutral · production · agentgt · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last site I worked on consisted of nginx, elasticsearch, logstash, kibana, postgresql, celery, redis”
neutral · production · markbnj · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The container exposes the redis and es/kibana ports”
neutral · personal · markbnj · 2014-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?