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Blog > Click-to-Search: Teaching an Old Log New Tricks

Click-to-Search: Teaching an Old Log New Tricks

Posted by By Ryan Heath on February 2, 2017

Wouldn’t it be great if you could drill down into your logs just by clicking? Today, we’re excited to release a feature that lets you do exactly that. We call it click-to-search.

Here are a few examples of how this will make life easier:

  • Web access logs: Each line in your access log contains an IP address. To click the address to see other lines containing the same address, enable “IP Addresses”.
  • Custom app logs: Your custom application logs contain User IDs with the format “user_id=1234”. Creating a custom clickable element with the regular expression user_id=d+ would make the string “user_id=1234” clickable.

Papertrail offers the following clickable elements out of the box:

  • IP addresses (enabled by default)
  • Email addresses
  • GUID / UUID
  • Period separated words (domains, file names, etc)

For these items, just click a checkbox to activate the elements that apply to your logs.

Since all logs are different, we’ve made it simple to create your own custom clickable elements:

Click-to-search will improve troubleshooting flow and make log filtering easier.
We hope you find it useful, and we always welcome feedback on how to make it better. Enjoy!