How to monitor a windows log file in real time? [closed]

I've been using BareTailPro for awhile, and have been very pleased. It hasn't been updated in awhile, but it still meets my needs. There's also a free version.

Here's some of the features:

• View files of any size (> 2GB)
• Configurable highlighting
• Monitor multiple files simultaneously
• High-performance search algorithm
• Regular expression text search
• Filter tail mode (include or exclude lines)

There's also an equivalent to "tail -f" under Windows, if you have PowerShell installed:

type -wait

I use Notepad++ as my default text editor on all my systems, and it has the nice bonus of having this built-in - just go Plugins -> Document Monitor -> Start to monitor. You can also use File -> Reload from disk to manually reload it.

You don't mention which platform you're using, but on Unix-like systems the tail command does this:

tail -f /var/log/messages

In fact there are implementations of tail for Windows also (eg. unxutils).

Actually, Log-Expert does what you want, plus a lot of nice feature