---
title: "How to Monitor Logs With Retrace"
slug: "monitors-log-queries"
description: "Easily configure log query monitors in Retrace dashboard. Receive alerts for query matches and ensure optimal log monitoring and analysis."
updated: 2019-03-21T21:25:57Z
published: 2019-03-21T21:25:57Z
---

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# How to Monitor Your Logs

Navigate the Retrace dashboard and click on the **Monitoring Tab**. Click **Log Queries**. ![Log Queries](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Log%20Queries.png)

In the [Log Queries screen](https://s1.stackify.com/Monitoring/Resources/Logs), you can set up monitors for your [Saved Log Searches](/docs/logs-filters-and-fields). Here is a step-by-step process in configuring and implementing log query monitors.

## Add a New Monitor

Upon clicking **Log Queries**, you will then be directed to the next page. To set up a new Log Query, click the **Add New** button as shown below:

![Add New](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Add%20New.png)

## Configure Monitor Settings

There are two ways to monitor a log query: Search Query and Saved Query. For Search Query, you may use the search query box and enters strings of keywords.

![Search Query](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Search%20Query.png)

If in case you already created some queries, these are all saved and can be searched in the [Logs Dashboard](/docs/logs-dashboard). If you want to monitor it, just select it from the drop-down list as shown below. Do not forget to create a name for the monitor. Also, you can assign a search time frame. This will determine the time span that query matches are checked.

![Saved Query](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Saved%20Query.png)

## Add Alerts to the Monitor

Once you are done with adding a log query monitor, you have the option to configure receiving alerts for query matches.

To configure, click on the left angle bracket as shown below: ![Log Query](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Log%20Query.png)

The expanded page will lead you to this: ![Query Matches](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/Query%20Matches.png)

Click on the **Query Matches** and you will be directed to the page below. Select the **Configuration** tab and click on **Error Monitor**.

![configurations](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/configurations.png)

For example, this log monitor is configured to trigger a warning alert when 20 or more query matches occur within a 5-minute time span. You can also configure specific parameters for critical and outage alerts based on your application’s needs. ![logs](https://cdn.document360.io/3fcaf473-a1ef-4778-aa2c-fd28411c2b01/Images/Documentation/logs.png)

To see more information on setting up monitors in Retrace, be sure to check out [Configuring Your First Monitors](/docs/monitors-overview-and-configure).