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View and download Sitecore log files using Log Viewer

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As a Sitecore developer you would want to regularly monitor the log files for recurring errors and warnings and keep them clean. I am quite used to downloading my log files and running the tools like Sitecore Log Analyzer to filter and group errors and warnings.  As we started to productionise our website and apply the security hardening best practices, I ended up losing access to the logs folder and admin pages. To complicate the things further we started using containers to host our Sitecore instance with zero access to file system for developers, even when it is needed for troubleshooting issues.  The only way I could access the logs was using AWS Log Insights which gives you a stream of events without any option to download the full log file. It is especially difficult to troubleshoot issues when you need to correlate events from multiple logs which means you need to look for events across multiple log streams and try to put together the jigsaw puzzle to see the full picture. This