Do you really loose the ability to grep? You can still search for json fragments `grep '"uid": "user-123"' application.log`
If the json logged isn't pretty printed everything should still be on one line. You can also grep with the `--context` flag to get more surrounding lines.
If the json logged isn't pretty printed everything should still be on one line. You can also grep with the `--context` flag to get more surrounding lines.