Thanks, I added a comment to that thread.

On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 12:05:54 PM UTC+3, Jochen Schalanda wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> currently that's not possible with Graylog, but there's a feature request 
> for that on GitHub at 
> https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-web-interface/issues/150.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jochen
>
> On Friday, 29 May 2015 08:30:32 UTC+2, [email protected] 
> <javascript:> wrote:
>>
>>
>> When reading logs the old-fashioned way on a unix terminal with text 
>> search, my frequent practice is to search / grep to zero in on an event of 
>> interest, then read messages above and below to see what was happening just 
>> before and after the event.  But I haven't found a way to replicate this 
>> practice in the graylog web interface.  I can do the first part -- search 
>> to find the event of interest -- but then I cannot easily request display 
>> of messages not necessarily matching the entire search but closely spaced 
>> in time from the found target.
>>
>> Ideally, there would be a button in the detail panel for the message 
>> saying "search around this time", which then autofills the search time 
>> portion with some range around the time of the chosen message, and the 
>> search term portion with your existing search (which you can then cut down, 
>> for example to just select the source in question).
>>
>> Even better would be to have a third "time selection mode" in addition to 
>> relative and absolute start/end, which is "relative to a point in time". 
>>  The point in time could be entered or prefilled from clicking the detail 
>> panel, and then sliders or relative time dropdowns for before/after specify 
>> the range.
>>
>> But is there already a way to do this stuff easily that I'm just missing?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>

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