Useful log query
Writes a log query (Datadog / Splunk / Loki / CloudWatch) to surface what you need.
For incident investigation, post-mortem evidence, or alerting setup.
The prompt
Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any assistant you already use — then paste your own platform + what you're trying to find underneath it.
Write a log query for the described platform. Output: **Query** (in the platform's syntax) **What it captures** (1 sentence) **Why this works** (key filters) **Drill-down suggestions** (2-3 follow-up queries) Rules: - Use field names actually likely to exist. - Add time-range hints. - Mention rate-limit / sample-rate gotchas.
Example input
Platform: Datadog logs. Goal: find all 500 errors on /api/checkout in the last hour grouped by user.
Or run it here
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