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| author | Costa Tsaousis <costa@netdata.cloud> | 2023-10-07 23:02:44 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-10-07 23:02:44 +0300 |
| commit | 8011e5d701c79a16a9a1e200e5cbf5d46e8c7c1d (patch) | |
| tree | 07e1b4e3cfe9b029f8fe0f8bdf56bf848382f183 /collectors | |
| parent | 9dd31d5287e811a864f506ce3ea42798f0c3bf2c (diff) | |
Update README.md
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| -rw-r--r-- | collectors/systemd-journal.plugin/README.md | 6 |
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diff --git a/collectors/systemd-journal.plugin/README.md b/collectors/systemd-journal.plugin/README.md index 4eebfc550c..910dfd583d 100644 --- a/collectors/systemd-journal.plugin/README.md +++ b/collectors/systemd-journal.plugin/README.md @@ -175,8 +175,10 @@ The histogram presented by the plugin is interactive: ## PLAY mode The plugin supports PLAY mode, to continuously update the screen with new log entries found in the journal files. +Just hit the "play" button at the top of the Netdata dashboard screen. -On centralized log servers, this provides a unified view of all the logs encountered across the entire infrastructure. +On centralized log servers, PLAY mode provides a unified view of all the new logs encountered across the entire infrastructure, +from all hosts sending logs to the central logs server via `systemd-remote`. ## Full-text search @@ -184,6 +186,8 @@ The plugin supports searching for any text on all fields of the log entries. Full text search is combined with the selected filters. +The text box accepts asterisks `*` as wildcards. So, `a*b*c` means match anything that contains `a`, then `b` and then `c` with anything between them. + ## Query performance Journal files are designed to be accessed by multiple readers and one writer, concurrently. |