# Watch your stream on Live

Check stream status, control the alert queue and see what your flows just did.

Updated 28 September 2026

## Open Live during a stream

Choose **Run → Live** in your channel's sidebar. Live keeps the sidebar available so you can move to Flows, Overlays or other pages while you stream. The activity feed updates as flows run and catches up after a connection interruption.

The status area shows whether your stream is **Online** or **Offline**, the current giveaway, the number of songs waiting and the Nuke tool. Open a status item to work with it. If a giveaway is open, you can **Draw** from Live; its winners and claim time appear there too.

For example, start a giveaway with a flow, then open Live. The giveaway item shows its title and entry count. When you draw, any winners and their remaining claim time appear in the same place.

## Manage the alert queue

The **Alerts queue** panel shows what is playing, what is up next and whether the queue is paused or waiting for an overlay in OBS. Use **Skip** to move past the current item, **Pause** or **Resume** to control playback, **Replay** to play the last item again, and **Clear** to remove waiting items. The buttons become available when there is something they can act on.

![The Alerts queue on Live: a test raid playing, five alerts up next, and Pause, Skip, Replay and Clear controls.](https://bloopbot.com/docs/screenshots/alerts-live-card.jpg)

_The Alerts panel on Live shows the item playing, what is up next and the queue controls._

An alert test sent with **Test on stream…** enters this same queue and can reach viewers. A flow editor's **Test fire** is simulated and does not play an alert on stream. [Test alerts and check OBS delivery](https://bloopbot.com/docs/alerts-in-obs) explains when to use each test.

## Read recent activity

**Activity** lists flow runs across your channel. **Recent** shows the latest runs; **This stream** filters those runs to the current broadcast. The feed loads up to 100 recent runs when opened and adds new runs as they happen. If you are offline, This stream is empty and Recent still shows earlier activity. Each row names the flow, how the run ended, what triggered it and when it happened. Open a flow's name to inspect or change it. Choose **Problems only** to find runs that need attention, then **Everything** to return to the full feed.

A flow set to **Any chat message** gets one running tally in Recent. Its checked and acted counts begin when you open Live, so a busy chat does not fill the feed with quiet checks. A run that acts or has a problem still appears as its own row.

> **If Live says Reconnecting updates…**
>
> The live connection is being restored. Recent activity reloads when it reconnects. If the feed says it could not load, press **Try again**.