Comment by dannyfreeman
3 days ago
Do you really loose the ability to grep? You can still search for json fragments `grep '"uid": "user-123"' application.log`
If the json logged isn't pretty printed everything should still be on one line. You can also grep with the `--context` flag to get more surrounding lines.
It's not even that bad.
As long as it's actual json, it doesn't matter if it's pretty-printed or not, since `jq` can fold and unfold it at will.
I frequently fold logs into single lines, grep for something, then unfold them again