Live change monitoring

Live monitoring keeps the table you are viewing in sync with writes made by other clients — another app, a teammate, a background job — so you do not have to keep refreshing.

Turn it on

In the Data Studio, press Mod+Shift+M or click the activity icon in the toolbar to open the live-monitor popover. From there you can:

• toggle monitoring on or off,
• choose which change types to watch — inserts, updates, deletes,
• set the poll interval (default 5 seconds).

The status bar shows when the table was last checked and how many changes were detected, color-coded by type.

How it works

• PostgreSQL uses LISTEN/NOTIFY. Dora installs a notification trigger the first time you start monitoring, so changes surface almost instantly. If the trigger cannot be installed, Dora falls back to polling.
• SQLite and libSQL are polled: Dora re-reads the table every interval.

Monitoring follows the table you are viewing — switch tables and the monitor applies to the new one.