Can vim monitor realtime changes to a file

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You can :set autoread so that vim reads the file when it changes. However (depending on your platform), you have to give it focus.

From the help:

When a file has been detected to have
been changed outside of Vim and it
has not been changed inside of Vim,
automatically read it again. When the
file has been deleted this is not
done.

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