What is Log Live Tail?
Log Live Tail is a feature that streams live log data as they are generated from log sources such as devices and applications within your IT infrastructure.
This allows immediate visibility into systems activities and events as they occur, thus facilitating real-time monitoring, timely actions, and troubleshooting.
Benefits of Log Live Tail with Motadata ObserveOps
1. Proactive Problem Identification:
Live Tail enables users to identify potential issues and anomalous incidents as they occur, enabling proactive troubleshooting.
2. Real-Time Monitoring and Debugging:
Users can monitor log data in real-time to quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues, enhancing debugging efficiency.
3. Improved Incident Response Times:
Identifying issues quickly lead to quicker response times, minimizing downtime and maintaining system reliability.
4. Enhanced Security Posture:
Real-Time log monitoring helps to identify suspicious activity and potential security threats as they occur, this empowering security measures.
5. Streamlined Log Management Workflows:
Live tail improves the log management processes for an organisation through continuous monitoring and analysis of log events.
How Motadata ObserveOps Log Live Tail Works
Real-Time Log Ingestion and Streaming: Motadata ObserveOps ingests and displays log data as it is generated, providing a continuous stream of log events.
Filtering and Focusing on Specific Logs: Users can filter the live log stream to focus on specific devices, applications, or log types based on their needs.
Customizable Views: Users can customize the live tail display to enable themselves to view the log events as they prefer.
Highlighting Keywords: Users can enter specific keywords to highlight within the live tail. This makes it easier to spot important log events as they occur in real time.
Searching Keywords: Users can search for specific keywords in the live tail. The live tail will only display log events that contain the specified keywords, allowing for focused monitoring.
Auto-Scroll and Split Screen: The live tail feature includes options for auto-scrolling to keep up with the latest log events and split screen to view logs from multiple sources simultaneously
Use Cases and Customer Stories
One of our clients, a major IT firm providing critical application services to their clients used Motadata’s Log Live Tail to identify a performance bottleneck in real-time as it happened, allowing immediate investigation and resolution. This proactive approach helped to prevent potential downtime and improved system performance.
Another customer leveraged Motadata’s Live Tail to detect a potential security breach by monitoring network logs for suspicious activity in real time. This early detection enabled swift action to mitigate the threat and secure their infrastructure.