Using Livetail
IBM® Cloud Logs provides a Livetail view where you can view the data that is ingested by IBM Cloud Logs as the data is received.
Accessing Livetail
To access Livetail:
-
In the console, click the Navigation Menu icon
> Resource list.
-
Select your instance of IBM Cloud Logs.
-
In the IBM Cloud Logs navigation, click the Livetail icon
.
Livetail options
The following options are available when you are interacting with Livetail.
Option | Usage |
---|---|
Start | Click to start the display of Livetail data. When selected, Livetail data starts being displayed and the option changes to Pause. |
Pause | Pauses running Livetail data. When selected, the Livetail data pauses being is displayed and the option changes to Start. |
Clear | Deletes the displayed data to the point when Clear is clicked. If Clear is clicked when the Livetail is still running, new data is displayed as it is ingested. |
Prettify | Structures the displayed data as formatted objects. When selected the option changes to Unprettify. |
Unprettify | Structures the displayed data as raw data lines. When selected the option changes to Prettify. |
Choose fields | Limits the displayed data to the specified fields. One or more fields can be specified. |
All Applications | Limits the displayed data to the selected application names. |
All Subsystems | Limits the displayed data to the selected subsystem names. |
Querying data
You can use grep, exact text, or a regex expressions to search for specific data within the Livetail.
The following example shows how text and regex searches can be combined. First, a case-insensitive regex search of mydata.io
is done. The search results are then filtered with an exact text search of schemas
. Finally,
a case-insensitive search of TimE
is applied to the filtered results.
| grep -i mydata\.io | grep "schemas" | grep -i TimE