Kibana
Ranked 5 of 5 log analytics platforms by recommenders
People recommend Kibana as a strong UI for inspecting logs, with fast saved searches and a feature set that rivals Splunk.
People recommend Kibana as a strong UI for inspecting logs, with fast saved searches and a feature set that rivals Splunk.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong UI for inspecting logs
“Absolutely my favorite UI tool for trying to figure out what went wrong”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Logging sucks” “All what I need for inspecting logs.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Logging sucks”
Other log analytics platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other log analytics platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana Loki | 19 | 7 | 73% | 8 | — | Approved |
| ELK stack | 15 | 7 | 68% | 8 | — | Approved |
| VictoriaLogs | 8 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| Splunk | 7 | 20 | 26% | 6 | — | — |
| KibanaThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I don't know what Splunk offers from a UI/features perspective that Kibana couldn't do.”
“it hit Kibana hard enough for RCE back in 2019”
“A saved Kibana search is faster, and more importantly, deterministic.”
“Kibana did extremely aggressive down-sampling to the point that it was averaging out the actual extremes in the data that I needed to see.”
“Absolutely my favorite UI tool for trying to figure out what went wrong”
“All what I need for inspecting logs.”
“The UX in kibana in 2016 was better than anything else we have now”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.