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id: live-tail-highlighting
title: Live Tail Highlighting
description: Highlight keywords that appear in your running Live Tail.
slug: /help/docs/search/live-tail/live-tail-highlighting/
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/search/live-tail/live-tail-highlighting/
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Your searches may lead you to focus on particular keywords in your log, and you can highlight these words in a running Live Tail session to make them more visible.

To highlight keywords in Live Tail:

1. Click the **A** button.
1. In the dialog that displays, enter a term to highlight. You can use single keywords or multi-term keywords separated by spaces.

<img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/livetail/livetail-highlighting-open.png')} alt="Live Tail highlighting" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="800" />

The different keywords are then highlighted using different colors so that they are easy to find on the screen. You can highlight up to eight keywords.

<img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/livetail/livetail-highlighting.png')} alt="Live Tail Highlighting" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="800" />