# Monitoring Policy Management Overview

You can set a statistics baseline and use the show command to display your policy configuration and monitor policy statistics. When you set baseline statistics, you can retrieve statistics beginning at the time when the baselining is set. The policy log rule provides a way to monitor a packet flow by capturing a sample of the packets that satisfy the classification of the rule in the system log. See JunosE System Event Logging Reference Guide for information about logging.

| Note: You can use the output filtering feature of the show command to include or exclude lines of output based on a text string you specify. See chapter Command Line Interface in JunosE System Basics Configuration Guide for details.