View Journal - Add custom date range filter.

[shoulders]

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The issue

I am looking for a particular email in the logs for Jamie

• I know what date the email was received.
• the email address is my main one that gets lots of emails.
• I can only search by the email address
• I can set arbitrary times in the since drop down but this is not specific enough as it will bring back many results

I need finer grain date filtering.

The result I am looking for is on the 1st of February and is nearly 12 days ago. So I can use the 30 day since option but I will have to show 3000 lines and scroll through a lot of entries to find the relevant records. There is no 14 days, the filter goes straight from 7 to 30 (I think I mentioned a 14 day filter was useful 😄 )

The request

I know you have done a lot on the journal and I thought I would just request this.

• Add a custom date range filter option to the View Journal page as this would allow fine grain date searching.
• Maybe add in the 14 day filter option.

I am aware I could probably do this in the CLI manually, but it defeats the object of the View Journal page.

Related links

• View Journal - Ability to add context #1174

Thanks as ever for looking

[iliaross]

Thanks, that might be a useful feature.

It’s not yet clear how to make it simple from a UI perspective.

Also, what about regular log files, not just the journal?

[shoulders]

Thanks, that might be a useful feature.

cool

It’s not yet clear how to make it simple from a UI perspective.

Without knowing the actual CLI command,

• Since could have an extra option called Custom date, when selected a button would appear next to since and when clicked would bring up a date selector in a modal.
• There would also be a drop down like since but called Until, I am not sure of what options should be in here, but at least custom date and blank for obvious reaons, again when this is selected the date selector button would appear.

The date does not need to be displayed at the the button as it will be shown in the command being built above.

Also, what about regular log files, not just the journal?

this would be useful. I am running Ubuntu so I think most of my stuff runs through journal but I do have a couple of file entries in the journal page, so would these not be covered by proxy, or is there an separate behind the scenes mechanism for files. Either way I think it would be a good thing.