It would make sense. It's a friggin' sick syslog analyzer. Expensive
as hell, but awesome.
And a basic front-end and your in business!!
Prototypical "useless use of cat" 
Decent frontend... hmm...
grep --color
Monies please!
or "cat /var/log/router.log | egrep -v 'term1|term2|term3' | less"
Surely you mean
egrep -v 'term1|term2|term3' /var/log/router.log | less