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by wruza 1434 days ago
I was thinking of something that could categorize parts of these strings into a “language”, so there is no non-matching strings. It’s hard to specify in a formal way, but by looking at these strings you may see that e.g. […] is a static syntactic element, and a number follows it, and time precedes it. This would be nice to have to browse logs (which these strings are obviously a part of) but instead of scrolling through thousands of rows, see all of the patterns that occur among them at once, and then dig down into a pattern to inspect what happened and when to improve on “health” of a conpkex system. Of course if you know all of them in advance, it’s easy to filter by each. But lots of software/apis do not document their output in such detail.