I feel like this is a huge anti-pattern. Use a hosted service that does all of this for you, and then have a whole query language, build alerts, graphs, etc bas

I feel like this is a huge anti-pattern. Use a hosted service that does all of this for you, and then have a whole query language, build alerts, graphs, etc based on these results. It's not super cheap, but it's 10x cheaper than wasting dev time in the terminal. (Sumologic, splunk are the two I can vouch for)