The dblog was ported from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 following some general guidelines, but in general is far to be as extensible and object oriented like other Drupal 8 modules from core.
There are several front of actions to modernize this module. The plan is to have at least a set of this changes ready to include in 8.4.x.
dblog.admin.inc has only a few functions that could be part of another class.
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Deprecate dblog_filters
Postponed
_dblog_get_message_types could be deprecated too (Part of
#2458191: Provide a storage backend for dblog module →
)Additionally to this there are some ideas to convert the logs into entities
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Make dblog entities
Postponed
. This makes sense to get better integration with views and if a module swap the logger.dblog service could have immediate views support. That issue also points to have a custom service for "fast writing", I think we already have that in Drupal\dblog\Logger\DbLog::log.
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dblog_filters and _dblog_get_message_types deprecated.Maybe a rename of the watchdog table.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to add my suggestion, but it'd be great to have some filter/search capacity out of the box. Say,
* Filter by date range
* Search for text (I understand that this is complicated given the way log messages are translated, but I'm just thinking aloud).