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# Live Tail

Live Tail streams Live Logs in real time so you can watch activity as it happens.

## Where to Find It

Under **Monitoring** in the left navigation, select **Live Tail**.

## How It Works

* **Live / Pause toggle** - Switch between streaming logs and pausing the feed.
* **Backlog** - Displays how many events are queued behind the live stream.
* **Agents filter** - Narrow the stream to one or more agents.
* **Sessions / Messages tabs** - Switch between session-level and message-level views.

Use Live Tail during testing and incident response to see logs without waiting for a full query to run.


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