Powershell - Tail Windows Event Log? Is it possible?

I've done this on occasion:

$idx = (get-eventlog -LogName System -Newest 1).Indexwhile ($true){  start-sleep -Seconds 1  $idx2  = (Get-EventLog -LogName System -newest 1).index  get-eventlog -logname system -newest ($idx2 - $idx) |  sort index  $idx = $idx2  }

Per MSDN docs:

Get-WinEvent is designed to replace the Get-EventLog cmdlet on computers running Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. Get-EventLog gets events only in classic event logs. Get-EventLog is retained in Windows PowerShell for backward compatibility.

And spurred on by my own need to tail a non-classic event log (would that be an event log nouveau perchance?) here is the wonderfully concise code of @mjolinor repurposed to use Get-WinEvent:

Set-PSDebug -Strictfunction Get-WinEventTail($LogName, $ShowExisting=10) {    if ($ShowExisting -gt 0) {        $data = Get-WinEvent -provider $LogName -max $ShowExisting        $data | sort RecordId        $idx = $data[0].RecordId    }    else {        $idx = (Get-WinEvent -provider $LogName -max 1).RecordId    }    while ($true)    {        start-sleep -Seconds 1        $idx2  = (Get-WinEvent -provider $LogName -max 1).RecordId        if ($idx2 -gt $idx) {            Get-WinEvent -provider $LogName -max ($idx2 - $idx) | sort RecordId        }        $idx = $idx2        # Any key to terminate; does NOT work in PowerShell ISE!        if ($Host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable) { return; }    }}

I added in a few bells and whistles for convenience:

• By default it shows the last 10 lines of the log initially, then concatenates new entries as they occur--you can adjust that to any number via the ShowExisting parameter.
• It sorts records with oldest first (contrary to Get-WinEvent's default) due to the natural order that tail requires.
• You can press any key to terminate (but not in PowerShellISE).

First, thank you Michael!

Slight refinement for my use case that includes showing the entire multi-line message value.

    function Get-WinEventTail($Provider="JobRequestQueueConsumerBackgroundService", $ShowExisting=10) {    $formatProperty = @{ expression={$_.TimeCreated}; label="TimeCreated"},                       @{ expression={$_.Message}; label="Message"; width=100}    if ($ShowExisting -gt 0) {        $data = Get-WinEvent -ProviderName $Provider -max $ShowExisting        if ($data) {             $data | sort RecordId | Format-Table -Property $formatProperty -Wrap            $idx = $data[0].RecordId        }    }    else {        $idx = (Get-WinEvent -ProviderName $Provider -max 1).RecordId    }    while ($true)    {        start-sleep -Seconds 1        $idx2  = (Get-WinEvent -ProviderName $Provider -max 1).RecordId        if ($idx2 -gt $idx) {            Get-WinEvent -ProviderName $Provider -max ($idx2 - $idx) | sort RecordId | Format-Table -Property $formatProperty -Wrap        }        $idx = $idx2        # Any key to terminate; does NOT work in PowerShell ISE!        if ($Host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable) { return; }    }}Get-WinEventTail

The -Wrap option was necessary to show a multi-line message, otherwise ellipsis would truncate the message at the end of the first line. Setting the column width did NOT help.