10 Minutes to Find One Log. Five Portals. I Built a Search Bar in a Weekend.

Ten minutes. That is how long it took to find one error log. Click through Azure portal. Find the right resource. Filter by time. Scroll. Scroll more. Copy. Paste. Ten minutes. Every. Single. Time. eShop client. Support team drowning. Every bug report meant the same ritual - open five portals, cross-reference timestamps, pray you find the right log. Developers could not access logs themselves, so they filed tickets. And waited. I did not ask permission. I just built it. One weekend: Python web app, Elasticsearch under the hood for full-text search, Docker containers so it deploys anywhere. One search bar. Type the error. Hit enter. Thirty seconds. Done. Before: ten minutes, five portals, only ops had access. After: thirty seconds, one search bar, anyone on the team. I showed it Monday morning. They went crazy. The support lead actually hugged me. Not joking. Support tickets dropped significantly because developers could finally find their own errors. One weekend project. Months of saved time. Zero permission asked. The best projects are the ones nobody asked for. If you see your team struggling with something every single day - do not file a feature request. Build the fix. Show…