For this specific use case there are log view tools that allow you to navigate logs and can automatically format json, xml etc when inside a log line. For examp

For this specific use case there are log view tools that allow you to navigate logs and can automatically format json, xml etc when inside a log line. For example lnav: https://lnav.org/features#pretty-print-view https://lnav.org/features#pretty-print-view