I think I really only use GUIs if I am learning something new and trying to understand the process/concepts or if I'm doing something I know is too small to automate. Generally once I understand a problem/tool at a deeper level, GUIs start to feel restrictive.

Notable exceptions are mostly focused around observability (Grafana, new relic, DataDog, etc) or just in github. I've used gh-dash before but the web ui is just more practical for day to day use.

For context, I'm in SRE. I feel like +90% of my day is spent in kubernetes, terraform, or ci/cd pipelines. My coworkers tend to use Lens but I'm almost exclusively in kubectl or the occasional k9s.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Searching a log file? I want less. Searching all log files? I want log aggregation lol.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One log file, or all, I want grep or awk, maybe with find in front, possibly throw some jq on top if something is logging big json blobs.

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That's a lot slower at scale than something like Loki.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I feel you. The problem with a lot of Elastic style document search engines is that they don't ever let you search by very explicit terms because of how the index is built. I believe the pros outweigh the cons but I often wish I could "drop into" grep, less, and others from within the log aggregation tool.

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