[e2le]

Personally I would much rather they had simply used an existing database file format. For example, sqlite3 which is robust and already present in the default installation of most Linux distributions. Querying system logs with SQL would be cool and make things a bit easier unlike the sd_journal API with it's strange/bizarre quirks.

[direwolf20]

You could write this. But you see the problem with systemd — because it integrates the journal with the init manager, it's hard to replace just one or the other.

[antonyh]

Wow what an idea, that would work so well and give me a trivial way to build apps to do alerts, monitoring, shipping to remotes, and whatnot in virtually any language.