That's great if everything you're running plays nice with journald or generates logs in the same structured format, but the problem I always run into with produ

That's great if everything you're running plays nice with journald or generates logs in the same structured format, but the problem I always run into with production systems is the mess of various formats coming out of each piece of a running app... I find myself just wanting a folder full of plain text files I can grep/cut/awk my way through, however imperfect that may be. At this point I've used many different proprietary web based cloud log viewer apps that are slow, glitchy, and each have their own special query syntax. Theoretically I can leverage them for super powerful queries against structured logs, but instead I find myself using different ones frequently enough that I never master the syntax and have to read through the docs to do silly basic searches.