# Kibana

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Kibana and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Kibana as a strong UI for inspecting logs, with fast saved searches and a feature set that rivals Splunk.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong UI for inspecting logs (2 comments): "Absolutely my favorite UI tool for trying to figure out what went wrong" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347637)) "All what I need for inspecting logs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347340))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana Loki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/loki.md): 19 recommend
- [ELK stack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elk.md): 15 recommend
- [VictoriaLogs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/victorialogs.md): 8 recommend
- [Splunk](https://hackerapproved.com/p/splunk.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Kibana", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kibana/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).