First question: is setup working right now?
The feed should make it immediately obvious that requests are arriving. Operators should not have to guess whether the worker install succeeded or whether data is delayed.
That means recency matters more than depth in the default view.
Second question: which bots actually showed up?
A useful free feed shows the bot mix at a glance. Teams need to see whether activity is mostly search crawlers, AI crawlers, or user-agent-only claims that still need more confidence.
The point is not a perfect investigation. The point is quick orientation.
Third question: how much of this can I trust?
Verification status belongs directly in the feed. The difference between an IP-verified request and a user-agent-only claim changes how a team interprets the traffic.
That trust signal is more important than adding filters too early.
When the free feed should hand off to paid views
Once a team wants to investigate one bot across time or one URL across multiple bots, the free feed has done its job. That is the handoff point to upgraded BOT or URL analysis.
The free view answers what happened recently. The paid views answer why a specific domain deserves investigation.
The bottom line
A 7-day live feed should feel like an operator console, not a report builder. It proves health, recent activity, and verification confidence before the user asks for anything deeper.