[pastage]

I Love using this in streams of data, but there is a lot to be said about the pit falls. Some of them; first you might want to filter with grep first and that leads to missing metadata, second error handling is a good thing but people tend to ignore errors and then not handle them. This is basically what filebeat/logstash from Elastic does, which is a beast at parsing (and impossible to use from command line).

The power of plain text pipes is that you do not interpret them and that makes them fast, that is usefull because you handle both 100 bytes, 1MB and 1TB as input. You choose what you parse keeping it simple, fast and usually error free. This tool miss the, fast, simple and human readable part of debugging pipes. Which is fine!