I've been using FileAppenders for aeons and want to move my apps (web and
headless server apps) to use the DBAppender, but I can't figure out how to
view them easily other than hand crafting queries, which is just not
sustainable.

I looked at the Lilith project and from what I can tell I have to tell my
apps to send logs to it, rather than it reading logs already created. Is
this correct? I can't add use Lilith to receive logs because I don't want it
running all the time just to browse through once a week.

What solutions are there for browsing logs stored via a DBAppender?

Thanks

Chris