jPOS Log Viewer: structured operational logs
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Most log viewers are built around the assumption that logs are lines of text. Search is grep. Filtering is awk. Correlation is copy-pasting timestamps and hoping for the best. The infrastructure to make that tolerable — log shippers, ingestion pipelines, index clusters — adds cost and complexity, and the result is still a flat text interface.
jPOS' Log Viewer takes a different approach, and it can do so because jPOS's logging is different at the source.
