Pain point · UI & usability · Blocks work
Ad hoc data exploration in Grafana feels cramped versus Datadog
2 source threads · first seen 2023-06 · last seen 2025-11
Summary
A user used to Datadog finds it hard to throw ad hoc data on screen and test a hypothesis in Grafana or New Relic. Everything feels harder in ways they struggle to articulate.
- Affects
- engineer used to Datadog
Evidence
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“Using Grafana or New Relic feels like going from a 30" screen to a 14" laptop”
“The Grafana UI was built by the enemy and explorations are incredibly annoying”