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System Notifications

Published: March 13, 2025 06:09

TL;DR: Seq 2025.1 supports connecting system notifications to an output app instance to proactively receive notifications.The Seq UI displays notifications when system events are detected, such as this notification that authentication is disabled.System…

Faster Percentile

Published: March 3, 2025 23:34

TL;DR: Dashboards, alerts and queries that include percentile calculations will run faster and more efficiently with Seq 2025.1, in exchange for a small reduction in precision. A percentile, or quantile, is the value below which a fraction of values occur.…

Introducing the Seq Command Palette

Published: February 19, 2025 21:35

TL;DR: ever wanted to reset the Seq events screen quickly, deselecting active signals, clearing the filter box, and resetting the date range? In Seq 2025.1, now in preview, that's Ctrl `, followed by c. You can learn about this shortcut and others by…

Seq 2025.1 Preview 1

Published: January 29, 2025 22:40

It's time to take the wraps off the next big Seq update! The 2025.1 preview MSIs are now on the Seq download page and datalust/seq:preview is ready to pull from Docker Hub.The Seq 2025.1 Light ThemeSeq is the private, secure, self-hosted server

Persistent logs and traces for the .NET Aspire Dashboard

Published: May 22, 2024 03:52

This post continues on from a previous post, Enhancing .NET Aspire Observability with Seq. Since that post was published, a Seq component has been included in .NET Aspire, making it even easier to include Seq in your .NET Aspire solution.The built-in…

Space-efficient indexing for immutable log data

Published: May 8, 2024 04:54

This post describes our approach to implementing a disk-backed hashmap in Rust for indexing high-cardinality predicates in our diagnostics product, Seq. If you've ever wondered how a hashmap works, or what makes a disk-backed datastructure different from…

Announcing Seq 2024.3

Published: May 3, 2024 04:41

TL;DR: With Seq 2024.3, Seq gains user-defined high-cardinality indexes, its first new index type since the introduction of signal indexes back in 2018! If you're eager to skip to the binaries and dig around for yourself, you can get MSIs at…

Faster searches with property indexes

Published: April 30, 2024 02:07

Now in preview, Seq 2024.3 introduces a new index type on event properties, known as expression indexes. Under the right circumstances, expression indexes reduce search time from minutes to milliseconds.Expression indexes are created using the context menu…

Seq 2024.2 released 🎉

Published: March 27, 2024 02:18

TL;DR: for the latest UX and performance improvements, pull datalust/seq:latest from Docker Hub, or grab the MSI from datalust.co/download.Seq 2024.2 is ready to go! Few releases come together as smoothly as this one has. We allocated some time after the…

Improved and updated email notifications

Published: February 29, 2024 23:15

Introducing the new Seq.App.Mail.* packages for SMTP and Microsoft365 email.A lot has changed since the first email notification plugin was written for Seq! SMTP is alive and well, but .NET's SmtpClient is all but dead and gone. Services like Amazon SES…