Follow mode watches a local file for new content and brings appended rows into the same heatmap, search, text, and timeline workflow. It is designed for active logs that grow while LogoRRR remains open.
Start following
Open a writable log and select Follow. The live-tail bar shows the connection state plus new source-line and visible-after-filter counts.
You can also configure a file to start following whenever it opens. Follow all starts eligible open sources together.
Understand live states
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Live | The view is tracking the newest source content |
| Paused | Ingestion continues, but rendering is temporarily frozen |
| Behind | You moved away from the newest content |
| Waiting | LogoRRR is waiting for more source data |
| Reconnecting | The source is temporarily unavailable and recovery is in progress |
| Reloading | A changed source generation is being rebuilt |
| Error | The source cannot currently be followed safely |
Pause, resume, and jump
Pause freezes visual updates while source lifecycle detection and ingestion continue. This is useful when you need to read a stable region during a burst.
Resume renders pending work but preserves your current viewport. Use Jump to live when you are ready to return to the newest row. If you navigate away manually, the state becomes Behind and later updates preserve the first visible source-line anchor instead of pulling the view downward.
The all-open controls can pause, resume, jump, or stop every active session together.
Clear from the current point
The clear/trash action resets the visible projection at the current source position. Follow remains active, and only later source data appears. This behaves like starting a focused tail -f session without truncating or editing the source file.
The existing source content stays on disk. LogoRRR simply starts the live projection from the current position.
Use search and time filters while following
Active Literal and Regex terms apply to newly appended content. Unclassified and time-range filters continue to control which accepted rows are visible. Counts distinguish new source lines from rows remaining after filters.
Pausing rendering does not disable source monitoring. When work resumes, LogoRRR coalesces pending updates rather than replaying an unstable sequence of intermediate frames.
Rotation, truncation, and temporary loss
LogoRRR detects truncation, rotation, replacement, encoding changes, and source recreation. A new source generation replaces the visible projection rather than mixing old and new file identities.
If the source disappears temporarily, LogoRRR keeps the last visible evidence while reporting recovery state. Use Retry when automatic recovery cannot proceed, or Stop to end the live session without closing the file.