# Configure Highlighting

Task-oriented recipes. Each section assumes you already have `splam` installed and running. See the [Tutorial](tutorial-getting-started.md) if not.


# Add a custom highlight keyword

Click **Configure** in the sidebar, scroll to **Highlight keyword**, enter a **Keyword or phrase**, choose a category under **Highlight as** (Error/red, Warning/amber, OK-success/cyan, Action tag/pink), and click **Save keyword**.

The new keyword takes effect immediately on the Status, Logs, and Audit Trail tabs, with no redeploy needed. It's matched as a whole word (or exact phrase), case-insensitively, the same way the built-in keywords are.

Saved keywords are stored in `highlight_overrides.json` in the app's data directory (override the location with `SPLAM_HIGHLIGHT_OVERRIDES`).