In some cases this turns the problem up right away, the search function is useful. Sometimes it is trickier and I might run a tool like jq against the file or load the JSON into a Python REPL and process the file there.
Common situations for me are: (1) I have two responses, one that works with the client, one that doesn't and I want to find the significant difference and (2) graph-like structures, for instance a map of objects keyed by id where objects refer to other objects with ids.
What I'd really like is a GUI tool that feels like looking at the JSON file in the IDE but is smarter about browsing and would let me do some of the things I might do with jq or python. Is there anything like that out there?