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@Hypolite Petovan Just - how are there that many different ways to view logs. In the log viewer project.

And why do they all cost *a lot* of money to actually do the viewing
@silverwizard Because of vendor lock-in, which is the main business drive of AWS as a whole?
@silverwizard I don't understand the criticism, it looks plenty serious to me. Unless it doesn't do what it is advertised to do, I don't find it particularly unserious.
@Hypolite Petovan If you look at the article, you can see that CloudWatch wont let you, by default, read a flat logroll

This is literally a log aggregator that wont let you mass aggregate logs!
@silverwizard What about subscription filters? Aren't you just disappointed you can't tail a CloudWatch Log?
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@Hypolite Petovan I am annoyed I can't, for example , ask for all logs from Timestamp to Timestamp across a series of log groups, or, even a collection.

I can't look at a single log stream chronologically.

I can't pivot to all errors in a collection.

These aren't things that are hard - these are things that are impossible
@silverwizard None of these can be done with CloudWatch Logs Insights?
@Hypolite Petovan I have never found a way to do it without knowing what I will need to see before I need to see it