[odonnellryan]

Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff.

Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.

[0des]

When your logs are big enough python doesn't really compare in terms of speed but maybe in terms of speed to write the thing you need to query them if you don't know how to use the aforementioned tools