I'm also seriously considering dropping Grafana for good for the same reasons stated in the post. Every year I need to rebuild a dashboard, reconfigure alerts, use the shiny new toy, etc etc. I'm tired.
I just want the thing to alert me when something's down, and ideally if the check doesn't change and the datasource and metric don't change, the dashboard definition and the alert definition should be the same for the last and the next 10 years.
The UI used to have the most 4-5 important links in the sidebar, now it's 10 menus with submenus of submenus, and I never know where to find the basics: Dashboards and Alerts. When something goes off I don't have time to re-learn the UI I look at maybe once a month.
I just want the thing to alert me when something's down, and ideally if the check doesn't change and the datasource and metric don't change, the dashboard definition and the alert definition should be the same for the last and the next 10 years.
The UI used to have the most 4-5 important links in the sidebar, now it's 10 menus with submenus of submenus, and I never know where to find the basics: Dashboards and Alerts. When something goes off I don't have time to re-learn the UI I look at maybe once a month.