diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/cli.py b/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/cli.py
index 6b10e1d..16d9d1a 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/cli.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/cli.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 )
 @click.option("--format", "format_", type=str, required=False, help="Select output format. Default: log / jsonl")
 @click.option("--follow", "-f", is_flag=True, required=False, help="Follow new records added, by polling the table")
+@click.option("--interval", "-i", type=float, required=False, help="When following the tail, poll each N seconds. Default: 0.1")
 @click.option("--verbose", is_flag=True, required=False, help="Turn on logging")
 @click.option("--debug", is_flag=True, required=False, help="Turn on logging with debug level")
 @click.argument("resource", nargs=-1, type=click.UNPROCESSED)
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ def cli(
     lines: int,
     format_: str,
     follow: bool,
+    interval: float,
     verbose: bool,
     debug: bool,
 ):
@@ -48,5 +50,5 @@ def cli(
     # TODO: Tail multiple tables.
     if len(resource) > 1:
         raise NotImplementedError("`ctk tail` currently implements tailing a single table only")
-    tt = TableTailer(db=adapter, resource=TableAddress.from_string(resource[0]), format=format_)
+    tt = TableTailer(db=adapter, resource=TableAddress.from_string(resource[0]), interval=interval, format=format_)
     tt.start(lines=lines, follow=follow)
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/main.py b/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/main.py
index 081620c..f7fd9e7 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/main.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/cmd/tail/main.py
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ class TableTailer:
 
     def __attrs_post_init__(self):
         self.db.internal = True
+        if self.interval is None:
+            self.interval = 0.1
         if not self.format:
             if self.resource.fullname == "sys.jobs_log":
                 self.format = "log"
@@ -131,4 +133,4 @@ def start(self, lines: int = 10, follow: bool = False):
             if not follow:
                 return result
             offset += len(result)
-            time.sleep(self.interval)
+            time.sleep(t.cast(float, self.interval))