SHOW INNODB STATUS includes a date/time stamp, so if comparing two complete files, and then looking at these subset of lines, a time comparison is possible (but not trival with date/time in human format).

I’ve modified all my logging these days for key scripts to always include epoch_secs for this exact reason.

Interesting, maybe it could be made smart enough to recognize timestamps at the beginning of lines, and/or if the output of a command is being piped to it in real time it can time the arrival of each line.

That said, in the scenario described in the post, it’s almost certainly just reading from a static text file, so there’s no available source of timing information. And that’s probably be the most common use case for this tool.

While that means the output changes, if you are looking at the 4 lines in isolation in your example, you don’t know if that’s a minute,hour,or day of processing.