Being a text stream, you'd also have to reparse that text stream, and hope that the text stream never changes. Which is at odds with how I usually use logs (as places to dump information for humans).
Nowadays using something like elasticsearch is common for this and then you don't have to reparse it. It's already indexed and you can search for what you want.
If you're going back to the raw text files, then you're right. But I'm not sure why anyone would do that these days.
If you're going back to the raw text files, then you're right. But I'm not sure why anyone would do that these days.