in the current stable version you can follow a search and keep it self reloading all X sec/min - I guess that something like this is what they want.
Should the developers do not like the way the logfiles are displayed, they can use the API to get the streams content.
With the upcoming version 3.0 the look and feel of the search - and the way you can customize the search view - will change and might be then more what your devs are looking for.