Show surrounding logs

[tj]

It should be easy to show the logs before and after a particular event.

This might be a bit awkward, for example you have error and app = "api" to show API errors, then you want to display the surrounding events, you'd likely want to retain app = "api", so it's unclear which portion of the query can be omitted.

• Maybe have it be part of the menu for a particular event field, retaining that field value in the filter
• Maybe provide a few menu items for showing N minutes around the event
• Highlight the original

[danielsharvey]

Also:

• Maybe provide a few menu items for showing N log entries around the event

[ForbesLindesay]

One way to do it would be to have a menu item on each log entry with:

• show surrounding logs
• show surrounding logs matching: app = "api"
• show surrounding logs matching: error
• ...etc. for each clause within the current search query...

I think for showing "N" entries around the event, you could just pick an arbitrary value for N as long as there's a "show more" button above and below.