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Seq
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The self-hosted search, analysis, and alerting server
built for structured logs and traces. Also available at https://social.datalust.co/@seq.
What are we working on, now? 👀 datalust.co/blog/what-ar...
What are we working on, now?
datalust.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reposted by Seq
👏 A big thank you to Seq for coming on board as a Silver Sponsor for DDD Brisbane 2025!

Community events like DDD Brisbane wouldn’t be possible without the support of sponsors who believe in building and strengthening the local developer community.
September 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Seq
Huge thanks to @datalust.co, makers of Seq, for continuing to support DDD events. One of only two tech companies that came to the table for our crazy outback experiment. 🙇🙇🙇 Check out Seq at datalust.co
August 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Seq Forwarder has moved!

Seq's own handy little store-and-forward ingestion proxy has been rewritten as the `seqcli forwarder` command group:

github.com/datalust/seq...

The original Seq Forwarder repository has been archived, but past releases will remain available there.
July 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Superpower 3.1.0 is a maintenance release with updated TFMs, index/range support on TextSpan, and a new Text() combinator for character parsers:

github.com/datalust/sup...
Release v3.1.0 · datalust/superpower
#140 - target .NET 6 (@KodrAus) #143 - remove Gitter link (@liammclennan) #144 - remove unnecessary zero-length array allocation (@sq735) #149 - fix divide operator in example parser (@randomC0der)...
github.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Seq 2025.2 🎉

blog.datalust.co/seq-2025-2-r...

If you automate Seq deployments in your organization: we've tightened up initialization of new instances, so be sure to read the release notes this time around! ☺️
Seq 2025.2 Release
TL;DR: Seq 2025.2 is ready on datalust.co and as datalust/seq in your Docker container registry of choice. A number of improvements were in-flight during the recent Seq 2025.1 release, but came in ...
blog.datalust.co
June 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Seq 2025.2 is on its way later today!

This patch includes a few changes that missed the cut-off for inclusion in 2025.1; you can check out what's coming in: github.com/datalust/seq...
datalust/seq-tickets
Issues, design discussions and feature roadmap for the Seq log server - datalust/seq-tickets
github.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Analyzing the distribution of elapsed time and other telemetry metrics: a primer on averages, percentiles, histograms and heatmaps 🔥

blog.datalust.co/analyzing-th...
Analyzing the distribution of elapsed time and other telemetry metrics
Telemetry data often includes numeric values that change over time. This is roughly the definition of an observability 'metric'. It is difficult to infer anything useful by looking at the values of a...
blog.datalust.co
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Today's tiny quality-of-life improvement:

If you regularly use the "From now" date range option, grab the latest 2025.1 patch and try Ctrl+Space N 💡

github.com/datalust/seq...
June 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Fans of the "classic" light theme, we hear you! ❤️

The latest 2025.1 build brings this back; update, jump into your user preferences, and select "Classic Light" from the theme drop-down 😊
May 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The nifty color palette we adopted here is based on Matteo Niccoli's perceptual rainbow palette, mycartablog.com/2013/02/21/p...
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Introducing heatmaps: Seq now implements this popular visualization for three-dimensional data sets 😎

blog.datalust.co/introducing-...
Introducing Heatmaps
TL;DR: Heatmaps are a great way to visualize timing data over time. The canonical visualization of two dimensional data is the bar chart. The following screenshot shows a count of events at each logg...
blog.datalust.co
May 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Data Replication in Seq Clusters - a new post on our engineering blog:

blog.datalust.co/data-replica...
Data Replication in Seq Clusters
Now that we've seen how Seq clusters coordinate the leader and follower roles, let's look one layer further down the stack. Log events and traces reach the cluster nodes via HTTP, and internally thes...
blog.datalust.co
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We've just pushed a tiny 2025.1 patch that fixes indexing on single-core machines/containers 😅

Multi-core boxes are unaffected and can ignore this one.

github.com/datalust/seq...
2025.1 Patch 1 Milestone · datalust/seq-tickets
Issues, design discussions and feature roadmap for the Seq log server - 2025.1 Patch 1 Milestone · datalust/seq-tickets
github.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Self-hosting's "moment" is set to be a long one.

We saw the privacy advantages a decade ago, and the momentum is only getting stronger.
May 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A peek into the delicate machinery that adapts a running Seq node to its role in the cluster: blog.datalust.co/leader-elect...
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The first of a short series digging into how Seq 2025.1 implements HA and scale-out:

blog.datalust.co/leader-elect...
Leader Election in Seq Clusters
We spent the past 12 months making Seq HA-capable and able to scale work out across multiple nodes. This post is the first of three that dig into how clustering is implemented. It's not so much about ...
blog.datalust.co
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ctrl-K, or Cmd-K on macOS, puts a stack of Seq features in reach without picking up a mouse ✨

This is a Seq update not to miss! Check all of the details at blog.datalust.co/announcing-s...
May 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today's the day! Seq 2025.1 is ready at datalust.co/download, and on Docker Hub/ECR 😎

Find out what's new in the release announcement 👉 blog.datalust.co/announcing-s...
Seq — centralized structured logs
Seq is the self-hosted search, analysis, and alerting server built for structured log data.
datalust.co
May 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We're proud to sit alongside these great companies supporting #NDCMelbourne 2025!

Hope you're having a blast, Melburnians! 👋
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Today's the day to catch Liam McLennan's epic Nokia Composer rebuild at #NDCMelbourne! 😎 ndcmelbourne.com/slots/a-c-no...
A C# Nokia Composer Emulator From First Principles - NDC Melbourne 2025 | Conference for Software Developers
NDC Melbourne is a 3-day event taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 29 April - 1 May 2025
ndcmelbourne.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It's time to prepare for Seq Clustering! 😎 All the details: blog.datalust.co/seq-clusteri...
It's time to prepare for Seq Clustering!
Now in preview, Seq 2025.1 introduces high availability (HA), scale-out clustering in the Datacenter subscription tier. * Seq 2025.1 clusters continue ingesting data and serving queries even when on...
blog.datalust.co
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hello, world! 👋
April 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM