Anvil currently lets you narrow down logs, events, and errors through facet checkboxes — level, controller, driver, status, and so on. Search would add free-text content search on top of that, so you can find events containing a specific word or phrase rather than only the ones matching a known field.

The same search bar handles both. Type and it filters by field — the same as clicking the facet, just expressed as text. Type and it looks through the message content for that word. You can mix them: shows ERROR-level logs whose message contains "timeout". Clicking facets updates the query in the bar, and editing the bar updates the facets, so however you prefer to work, the other side stays in sync.

Searches live in the URL, so anything you find is shareable — paste the link into chat or into a ticket and whoever opens it lands on the same filtered view. Autocomplete suggests field names and recent values as you type, so the syntax is discoverable without having to memorise it. Searching events or errors follows through into their associated logs, so a query for a word in a log message surfaces the event or error that log belongs to.