Well, I guess you are also against SQL databases, aren't you ;). grep, head, tail, etc. work great when you have a small amount of logs. But if you have a prod

Well, I guess you are also against SQL databases, aren't you ;). grep, head, tail, etc. work great when you have a small amount of logs. But if you have a production system with lots of logging data, processing plain text can become too slow and/or icky parsing-wise.