Open rolling log file while being written to

Can anyone point 开发者_运维知识库me at an application to display/view a rolling log file as it is being written to?

I know there are apps out there, but googling just gives me questions about writing to/creating the logs. [This is Windows, not Unix]

Baretail.

There is a free version if you don't mind a small delay while it displays the splash screen or you can pay $25 to remove the delay or $35 for BaretailPro which also allows you to search the log files.

I use BaretailPro on my own machine and the free version of Baretail if I am working on a customer's computer.

You could try the tail tool, with follow option.

tail -f /path/to/log 

will show the last 10 or so lines of the log and then show you any new lines written to the log as they are written

Log4View can do that but it is commercial. Another idea would be to configure a UDP appender, then you can use log2console.

In Notepad++, there is a View -> Monitoring (tail -f) option that will continuously update the file for you.