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. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "graylog2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
