Just migrated a team's deployment logs into iboss. The search feels like a step back.
Need to find a specific error hash across last week's deployments.
* In grep: `grep -r "abc123" ./deploy_logs/`
* In iboss: `log_source="deployment" AND message CONTAINS "abc123" AND timestamp LAST 7 DAYS`
The iboss syntax is verbose for simple lookups. The `CONTAINS` operator feels unnecessary. Why not just treat the field as text?
* Need multiple `AND`s for basic filters.
* No easy way to do case-insensitive search without a specific operator.
* The time range syntax is clunky compared to using `find` with `-mtime`.
It's powerful for saved queries and dashboards, but for quick, ad-hoc debugging, I'm still opening a terminal to grep the raw logs.
Ship fast, review slower