How to start a live trail?
Overview
The live trail feature enables you to access all your log events in real-time from any source in your infrastructure that is sending the logs to Motadata.
Live trail can be used to check if a new deployment in your environment went smoothly.
Use this feature to see a real-time feed of log events associated with a source. Live trail shows the real time log events in white text visible very clearly over black background making the logs very easy to read.
Navigation
Go to Menu, Select Log Explorer 
. After that, Select Start Live Trail 
from the top right corner. The live trail screen is now displayed.
Enter the following details on the Live Trail screen:
| Source | Select the source of the log for which you want to view the live trail. | |
|---|---|---|
| Search Terms | Enter the keyword(s) that you wish to search for from the live trail. Once you have entered a search term, the live trail will only display the log events that have the keyword(s) you specified | |
| Highlight keywords | Enter the keyword(s) you wish to highlight from the live trail. The keyword(s) will be highlighted as shown in the diagram below. |
Options On The Live Tail Screen
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Auto Scroll | Select the check-box to enable auto scrolling of the live trail of log events. |
| Start streaming/Stop streaming | - Select - Select |
| Clear Logs | Select this button to clear all the logs that have been generated on the screen via live trail. |
| More Actions | Select the - Preferences - Split Screen - View Full Screen - Create Log Parser Plugin : Select this button to start creating a custom log parser. |
to start the live trail.
to stop the live trail.
button to display the following options: 
: Select this button to change the text size and line spacing of the log events in the live trail.
: Select this button to view live trail of two log sources at once in the screen.
: Select this button to view the live trail of log events in a full screen.