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## PLAY mode
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The plugin supports PLAY mode, to continuously update the screen with new log entries found in the journal files.
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+Just hit the "play" button at the top of the Netdata dashboard screen.
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-On centralized log servers, this provides a unified view of all the logs encountered across the entire infrastructure.
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+On centralized log servers, PLAY mode provides a unified view of all the new logs encountered across the entire infrastructure,
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+from all hosts sending logs to the central logs server via `systemd-remote`.
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## Full-text search
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Full text search is combined with the selected filters.
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+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.
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## Query performance
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Journal files are designed to be accessed by multiple readers and one writer, concurrently.