Spoiler alert, it’s the latter. The tool in question is called tail. With tail, you can view a Linux log file as the system writes to it in real time.

One of our engineers, Mike Smathers, wrote an excellent log monitoring tool that enables streaming log files to your web browser. This is particularly useful if you have services spread across ...

Windows 10's built-in network packet sniffer Pktmon has been updated with real-time monitoring and PCAPNG capture file format support with today's release of Windows 10 2004.