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Tail Logs

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Tail Logs is your Salesforce version of tail -f app.log command. For selected user, it streams new logs and updates views continuously with auto-trace enabling and disabling when tailing is paused.

To tail for a user,

  1. Go to Manage Logs,
  2. Select a User
  3. Click Tail Logs.

This opens a dedicated tail tab like Log Tail: <User>.

It contains various actions.

  • Pause/Resume: It will pause the tailing or resumes. When it is paused, it will disable the tracing.
  • Clear: Clears the logs
  • Log Levels: Allows you to change the log level. If you change the log levels, you do not have to pause/resume the tailing. It will automatically

Tail View Tabs​

Tail view has:

  • Log: raw text rolling output.
  • Execution Units: aggregated unit view from tailed logs.

Notes​

  • Tailing enables/disables tracing for the target user in session flow.
  • Tail monitor auto-stops after safety limit or when paused/stopped.