# 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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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.contextual.io/documentation-and-resources/tenants/monitoring/live-tail.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.
