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Solr
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General missing features
Solr is currently missing the following general features: Per-doc/query analyzer chain Support for nested documents Support for multiple document types per schema Ability to modify document scores with custom scripts Equivalent to Elasticsearch's percolation
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Customizablity
A key differentiator of Solr is the level of customizability the SearchComponent feature provides. SearchComponent provides the developer astonishing flexibility in the way search queries are assembled and executed. At the time of writing, there does not appear to be a ElasticSearch equivalent of SearchComponent. source Whilst ElasticSearch has a number of plugin-points there doesn't appear to be an equivalent of Solr's SearchComponent that enables you to modify the workflow of existing API endpoints.
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Missing some useful features for cloud distribution
Solr is currently missing the following features that are useful when managing a distributed system: Automatic shard rebalancing Ability to re-locate shards and replicas on demand Ability to change the schema without restarting the server Ability to search across multiple indexes.
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Open source
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Stats component
Solr allows to view average, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, sum of squares of a particular numeric field. It also allows faceting of that numeric field based on the value(s) of other fields.
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Results grouping
Solr allows you to group search results. Results can be grouped by: Field Value Query Function Query You can also collapse multiple results with the same field value down to a single result.
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Decision tree faceting
Solr has a faceting feature called pivot facets or 'decision tree facets'. Pivot facets enable you to calculate facets inside a parents facet, for example pivoting on 'size' than 'color' returns 'color' facet counts for each 'size' facet
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Local params
Solr has a great feature that enables you to use LocalParams to perform more advanced faceting. They provide a way to "localize" information about a specific argument that is being sent to Solr. In other words, LocalParams provide a way to add meta-data to certain argument types such as query strings. From the Solr Wiki: LocalParams are expressed as prefixes to arguments to be sent to Solr. For example: Assume we have the existing query parameter q=solr rocks We can prefix this query string with LocalParams to provide more information to the query parser, for example changing the default operator type to "AND" and the default field to "title" for the lucene query parser: q={!q.op=AND df=title}solr rocks
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Hosting support
The following services will host Solr for you. The great thing about these services is that they abstract away some of the difficulty of scaling Solr: WebSolr SolrHQ
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SpellChecker
Solr allows has the functionality to check and correct spelling mistakes in search queries. The three main implementations are: IndexBasedSpellChecker WordBreadkSolrSpellChecker DirectSolrSpellChecker
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Ambar
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Simple Interaction
User-friendly web interface with realtime statistics, intuitive administrative tools and REST API. Integrate with any system without reading endless manuals.
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Instant Search
Language-analyzed full-text search including fuzzy queries, phrases and metadata search. Done in milliseconds, no matter how many documents indexed or how complexed query is.
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Reliable Engine
Multi-source document collection and deduplication. Smart document content retrieval and indexing for any file type. Horizontally scalable to petabytes of data and billions of documents.
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Algolia
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Commercial
There is a Free tier limited to 10k records that can only do 100k operations.
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Very fast and reliable
API replies in few milliseconds and they have datacenters all around the world.
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As a hosted service it reduces required maintenance work
Algolia provides worldwide hosting, meaning you can scale up search worldwide at the click of a button.
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Optimized UX for autocomplete and find-as-you-type results
Their InstantSearch.js library and accompanying native mobile UX tools make it easy to build beautiful search experiences.
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Free Hacker Plan: 10K records and 100K monthly operations
In addition to their 14-day free trial, Algolia supports their Community with a free plan as well as discounts for non-profits, students and the open source community.
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Search-as-you-type is built-in
Designed to natively search for prefixes (enables auto-complete menu search OOTB).
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Very easy to configure
The configuration is based on tie breaks which makes reasoning about the search easier.
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100% customizable
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Language-agnostic & typo tolerance
Algolia's engine has been built in such a way that you can index and search any language, or even several languages at the same time. The engine is also typo tolerant, and will allow for up to two typos in each words of the search query. This typo tolerance feature is also language agnostic, as it relies on optimized data structures and "fuzzy" tree traversals (implementing a Damarau-Levenshtein distance algorithm) instead of using dictionaries.
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Unique ranking formula combining full-text and business relevance
Their Tie-Breaking Algorithm gives you powerful relevance from day one that you can customize as much as you want by integrating the business metrics that matter most.
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Sajari
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Great customer support
I regularly get to chat with the Sajari team when I have a question - they're very technically minded and I always leave happy!
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The best page indexing
Their indexing platform with their crawler can index all of our new and updated pages automatically, without waiting for recrawls
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Advanced customization options
We were able to build a custom search interface with their SDKs. This was tailored to our website, and goes well beyond what we were originally expecting
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Searchify (Hosted IndexTank)
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No free tier
Searchify has no free tier. It starts at $59/month for 50000 documents or $25/month if using the Heroku addon.
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"Did you mean?" suggestions
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Field weights
Option to give one field, such as "title", a higher weight than another field for relevance ranking.
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True real-time updates
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Autocomplete / suggest
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Geolocation search
Sorting and filtering by distance
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Works without provided libraries
The API consists of REST calls that can be made through HTTP which enables Searchify to be used even without one of the provided libraries.
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Multiple libraries
Searchify has libraries in Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, Node.js and more.
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Swiftype
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Commercial
Price starts at $300/month.
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Easy & fast deployment
To set up, paste a Javascript snippet, the crawler will create a search engine in minutes.
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Real-Time Analytics
Built-in search analytics give you live insight into what your users are looking for.
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Custom result ranking
Drag-and-drop default results to re-order them. Changes are instantly reflected on website.
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Android & iOS support
Swiftype offers full integration with both Android and iOS SDK's
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Third Party Compatibility
Swiftype integrates with all major third party platforms, offering a Shopify App, Magento Extension, and WordPress Plugin, with more to come. Swiftype also provides tutorials for adding Swiftype to Tumblr, Jimdo, Heroku, Weebly, Tumblr, CloudFlare, WebStarts and Desk.com. They also have questions dealing with fixes for WooCommerce, how to add Swiftype to any CMS (such as Drupal or Jekyll) and searching across content types (like WordPress using GoDaddy Shopping Cart)
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WordPress plugin
Swiftype offers a WordPress plugin for easy integration.
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Multiple client libraries
Swiftype has client libraries for Python, Ruby, node.JS, Java, PHP, a search and a separate autocomplete library for jQuery, an iOS SDK, and an Android SDK.
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Log fusion
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Filtering
Filter and hide lines that are not of interest.
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Row highlighting
Can match strings and regular expressions.
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Auto scroll
Support for streaming log files
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Logentries
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Real-time alerts
Alerts can be created based on tags or by setting criteria via the intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries. To not flood notifications it's possible to specify limitations for alerts, such as how many times an hour an event has to happen for it to trigger a notification. Notifications can be sent by email, mobile messaging or via webhooks (webhooks are sent server in real-time, so there's no need for polling for changes).
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Confusing interface
The interface is packed with features and options, many of them I'm not sure what they do at all.
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Supports a diverse set of programming languages
Including Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, node.js, Python.
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Character limit for each log entry
Currently log entries are limited to 8192 characters, if your log entry runs over this amount then it will be truncated where the excess log will be a new entry in the UI. This can easily cause a problem JSON structure with java stacktraces.
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Free up to 5 GB
Logentries free product allows uploading up to 5 GB of logs a month and has a 7-day retention period. The free product is available after the 30-day trial ends.
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Limited search capabilites
Compared to Elasticsearch and other competitors, search syntax has few features, apart from regexp and NOT/AND/OR combining. E.g. has no syntax to determine if a field is absent.
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Works with multiple PaaS and IaaS
Logentries works with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, AppFog, Engine Yard and other platform as a service (PaaS) providers, along with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure and other infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers.
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Expensive
The average plan is over $1.5 per GB, which can get very expensive for any sort of reasonable volume.
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Event and search updates can be viewed in real-time
In Live Tail mode events and searches update in real-time. Live Tail mode can be used in Aggregate View, that allows selecting a combination of logfiles to be viewed together, and with any log groups created. These events are supplemented with tags to allows getting an overview of current events quickly at a glance.
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Short retention
The retention is very short (14 - 30 days).
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Supports the most popular programming frameworks
Supports the most popular programming frameworks, including Ruby and node.js.
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There's a limit of 100 logs per server
Should you have a webserver that hosts many sites, you'll hit this undocumented limit. The token-based alternative solution is inconvenient to set up and maintain.
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Offers an easy way of visualizing data via graphs
LogEntries allows each logfile to have a separate dashboard of various graphs & widgets put together for visualizing data. A dashboard is put together by dragging & dropping graphs and widgets into place. Graphs and widgets include charts, tables, gauges, event counts among other forms of data visualization.
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Can't track the source of errors in 3rd party libraries
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Real-time tagging makes reading logs easier
Colored indicators can be set that highlight events in a log in real-time based on given criteria. Criteria are set via intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries.
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Insufficiently secure web client logger
No progress since this was reported in September 2013.
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Easy to set up
Logentries can be set up quickly and with relative ease.
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Grouping is unsorted and limited
Eg. you can't really check what browsers people use, because the report is limited to 40 unique strings.
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Great search
LogEntries has human readable, intuitive and powerful search with support for logical expressions, comparison expressions, regular expressions and ability to search based on field, group based on approximations over time, use functions such as count, sum, average and unique as well as save searches.
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Blocked by ad blockers by default
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt includes logentries
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Timestamps are displayed in the local time zone
Unlike Loggly, LogEntries displays timestamps in your timezone. You don't even have to configure anything.
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No specialized reporting for JavaScript
No stack trace, or XHR recording. Compare with UserSnap or Rollbar or TrackJS.
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Excellent documentation
LogEntries has comprehensive documentation that's easy to read and understand and includes lots of screenshots and examples.
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Signing up requires phone number
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Good technical support
Answer incidents pretty quickly.
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No CDN for the web client logger
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Prepared viewlets
Easy to get information fast with integrated dashboards. Also I can change as I want easy by rewriting query
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TypeErrors (X is not a function) are not tracked
Loggly catches them by default. LogEntries doesn't seem to catch them even if catchall is set to true. See the GitHub issue.
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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aggregation & monitoring
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Android / GoLang / JavaScript/HTML5 / iOS / Java / .NET / .NET Serilog / PHP Logging / Python
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Cloud hosted
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Graylog2
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Free and open source
Graylog2 is licensed under GNU GPL v3.
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Limited logging protocols support
Graylog2 only has support for syslog and GELF.
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Easy setup
Graylog2 can be quickly installed on any Linux machine running Java 7 via an executable that allows installing and configuring remote dependencies and graylog2 itself via a web interface.
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Self hosted. Difficult to maintain.
Maintenance is very difficult because of the high volume nature of logs.
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Real-time
Information and statistics displayed update in real time.
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Slow
Takes multiple servers even for smaller deployments
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Great interface
Easy to overview, intuitive and full of explainers.
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Interface is hard to use
The interface is hard to use, loaded with data, and difficult to understand.
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Little maintenance
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Streams allow identifying events in real-time and perform actions
Stream allow filtering events in real time and perform action such as issue alerts or forward messages.
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Server-side functionality can be extended via plug-ins
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Works well with just about any type of logging
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Platforms:
Linux, Docker
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Aggregation & Monitoring
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Java
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Amazon CloudSearch
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No AutoComplete/Suggest
Does not have the functionality to either autocomplete the users search query or suggest an alternative query ("Did you mean?").
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Easy to Integrate and Manage
The primary differentiator of CloudSearch is how simple it makes the lives of the developers using it. Not only does it automatically scale, developers can change search parameters, fine tune search relevance, and apply new settings at any time without having to upload the data again and can do so from a simple dashboard. CloudSearch also automatically takes care of: Hardware provisioning Data partitioning, Software patches.
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No 'More like this'
CloudSearch doesn't support the 'More like this' or 'Find similar' features.
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Scalability
CloudSearch dynamically scales as the amount of searchable data increases or as the query rate changes. The search system utilizes well-understood and automated sharding and replication to scale. CloudSearch will automatically add search instances and index partitions as required as well as add and remove replicas to respond to changes in search request traffic.
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Propriety Tech
While ElasticSearch and Solr both have active open-source communities propelling the technology forward, CloudSearch is closed. This has multiple disadvantages such as: Constrained by what Amazon allows you to modify/customize. No transparency behind new feature development. Potentially slower development of new features. No way to modify/extend the search algorithms. No existing language specific API to call the Cloudsearch and process the response into objects.
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Search features
CloudSearch lets you add the the following features: Faceted search Free text search Boolean search expressions Customized relevance ranking Field-based sorting and searching Text processing options such as stopwords, synonyms, and stemming.
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No Geolocation search
No way to sort and filter by distance.
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Results Ranking
CloudSearch does out-of-the-box ranking of search results with simple controls to let developers tweak the ranking. You can add stopwords, perform stemming, and add synonyms.
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Searx
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Extremely customisable
Since you have access to all the .yaml files, you can easily modify it to your needs.
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Not very mobile friendly
Needs WSL2 for windows, and works natively on macOS and Linux But no support for Android or iOS
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Can add many search engines
Have a vast choice for choosing search engines
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Can use a proxy
Using a proxy called Morty hides the IP address of the user
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Most Private Search engine
Since it can be hosted on your own server/ computer, it is very private, nothing leaves your computer. No cookies or ads too
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Very fast
Since it is a Python program with a web interface, it's very very fast even on a poor internet connection
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Supports instant answers
Uses Google and Bing, and hence has the 'quick answers' feature of both the search engines.
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Visual Studio Code with Log Syntax Highlighting
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Log syntax highlighting
Highlight log syntax for easy viewing.
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No filtering
It's essentially a text editor, so that's a feature that won't be available, but the search function is powerful enough.
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Can open large file relatively fast
Visual Studio Code can open a large file rather quickly.
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