Changelog: Live tail presets & Explain with AI

Better Stack Team
Updated on March 28, 2025

We’ve upgraded your log browsing experience — see log and error spikes at glance, easily filter logs with Live tail presets, and explain your logs with AI in an all-new Live tail design.

Want to save time when investigating issues? Read on to learn how to easily find relevant logs and use AI to diagnose the underlying issue.

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View log and error spikes at a glance

Looking for unusual behavior in your logs? Spot when your apps started behaving differently — check the amount of errors, warnings, and other log levels using the histogram in Live tail.

Quickly find the right logs with Live tail presets

Need to find the relevant log lines in your logs? View HTTP requests, database queries, and errors in your logs with one click using built-in Live tail presets.

Find all presets in Live tail under Presets in top-left corner.

Are you often searching for the same logs? Create your own preset for any search query you commonly use.

Go to Live tail and click PresetsNew to save current search query and selected sources as preset.

No more copy-pasting errors to LLMs — use AI directly in Live tail

Make sense of any log format and interpret standard error messages with AI. Get an AI explanation for any log line with a single click.

Explain your logs with AI in Live tail.


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