I get onboarded to new projects sometimes with a bunch of local unstructured logs already set up. They come from different parts of the application at different layers - many without syntax highlighting. It's hard to make sense of things.
In contrast, something like your browser's dev console allows filtering, highlighting, and inspection of "unstructured" logs. I wanted something like that for any kind of terminal output.
There are some tools with a similar goal. I hope to make considerable UX improvements over those. I have a custom query language, a command palette, automatic syntax highlighting over unstructured code, and some basic chunking heuristics to combine certain logs if they're close together. It's the combination of the view and the search features that I think really makes it a helpful tool.
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