Tail and Filter Windows Firewall Log (like tail -f ... | awk)

tail-windows-firewall-defender-log.ps1

Get-Content -Head 5 C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Filrewall\pfirewall.log

Get-Content -Wait -Tail 5 C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Filrewall\pfirewall.log | % {
    do { 
        $a=$_.split(' ')

        # DROP or ACCEPT (the only values AFAIK)
        #
        if ($a[2] -ne 'DROP') {continue}

        # Aims to drop common multicast addresses (no CIDR easily available)
        #
        # if ($a[4] -like '^(239|224)\.') {continue}

        # Direction
        #
        # if ($a[16] -eq 'SEND') {continue}

        # Port number
        #
        if ($a[7] -in @(137, 135, 1900, 5353, 7680)) {continue}

        #Fields: date time action protocol src-ip dst-ip src-port dst-port size tcpflags tcpsyn tcpack tcpwin icmptype icmpcode info path
        #        0    1    2      3        4      5      6        7        8    9        10     11     12      13       14      15   16
        #
        # Unfortunately you don't seem to be able to pass $a (an array) to -f, nor can you splat it.
        #
        # You could just use   write-host $a   but I'm just wanting to align a subset of records.
        #
        write-host ("{0} {1} {2,-5} {3,-4} {4,-15} {5,-15} {6,5} {7,5} {8} {9} {10} {11}" -f `
            $a[0], $a[1],    # date time
            $a[2], $a[3],    # action protocol
            $a[4], $a[5],    # src-ip dst-ip
            $a[6], $a[7],    # src-port dst-port
            $a[9],           # tcpflags
            $a[13], $a[14],  # icmptype icmpcode
            $a[16]           # path
            )

    } while($false)
}