# Tailed

Running a script that will take several hours to complete? Want to monitor it from your phone so you're not anchored to your laptop? Or do you want to share the output from a log file or console with your team?

**Tailed** is a low-ceremony way of achieving all this for free!

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{% hint style="warning" %}
Tailed is built to cater to a specific niche. It's *not* a replacement for fuller-featured log management software. No logs are retained or indexed and there's no search or alerts. Please **don't** use the Tailed server for long-term, verbose monitoring.
{% endhint %}

You can send data to Tailed in one of three ways:

1. By using the Zero-Install online tailer.
2. By monitoring log files using the Tailed command line tool.
3. By using the in-process Tailed libraries for .NET or Node. These will send a copy of any content destined for the console, stdout or stderr to the Tailed web site.

Tailed is run as a project by [Chris Wood](https://chriswood.me/) at his own personal expense. Please use Tailed respectfully. If you'd like to run your own server, the source code is available in the [Tailed repo on GitHub](https://github.com/cpwood/tailed).


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.tailed.live/tailed.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.