pq - parse and query log files as time series

I often find myself staring at Nginx or Envoy access logs flooding my screens with real-time data. My only wish at such moments is to be able to aggregate these lines somehow and analyze the output at a slower pace, ideally, with some familiar and concise query language. And to my surprise, I haven't met a tool satisfying all my requirements yet. Well, I should be honest here - I haven't done thorough research. But if there would be a tool as widely known as jq for JSON, I wouldn't miss it probably.

So, here we go - my attempt to write a full-fledged parsing and query engine and master Rust at the same time. Yes, I know, it's a bad idea. But who has time for good ones?

First things first - a usage preview:

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