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The self-hosted search, analysis, and alerting server built for structured logs and traces. Also available at social.datalust.co/@seq. 🇦🇺

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Seq @datalust.co · 10/09/2026
We've migrated seqcli's internal data pipeline (ingest, search, tail) from piggy-backing awkwardly on Serilog, to a lean System.Text.Json-based model in the latest release 🎉 If you spot any regressions we've missed in our testing, please let us know 🙏😅 github.com/datalust/seq...
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Release v2026.1.02645 · datalust/seqcli
What's Changed Don't truncate traces at span depth 4 by @nblumhardt-ro in #493 Add arm64 support for Windows by @KodrAus in #495 Migrate data handling from Serilog's LogEvent across to System.Text...
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Seq @datalust.co · 21/07/2026
Metrics support is officially ready! Download the Seq 2026.1 MSI, or pull datalust/seq:latest to upgrade. Read the release announcement at: datalust.co/blog/seq-202...
Seq 2026.1 Metrics screen: a grid of metric charts showing the OpenTelemetry demo data set. Two of the charts are "pinned" to the top of the grid. Charts are grouped by resource and scope. Tool windows show an editor for the current view, and a list of metric dimensions.
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Seq @datalust.co · 17/07/2026
Identical log/trace data sets in Seq 2025.2 and 2026.1, 64% lower on-disk footprint thanks to an all-new compression implementation! RTM in just a few days, now... 😁
Seq 2025.2 showing 1716 MB combined buffered and indexed events.Seq 2026.1 showing 671 MB combined buffered and indexed events.
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Seq @datalust.co · 11/06/2026
A tiny update for today; if you have log and trace data in Seq that you'd like to mirror to an SIEM, alerting system, or another monitoring back-end, Seq.App.OpenTelemetry is the new thing to reach for: www.nuget.org/packages/seq...
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Seq.App.OpenTelemetry 1.0.0-dev-00101
Package Description
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Seq @datalust.co · 11/06/2026
A nice little write-up showing logging to Seq from #golang, using slog: robinsiep.com/blog/posts/g...
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Telling the story right: efficient logging in Go
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Seq @datalust.co · 08/06/2026
Seq.App.Slack now includes more alert detail inline 😎 Update to v2.0.1 of the package (or later) in Settings > Apps.
A screenshot of an alert notification "Health Check Failures" in Slack. The notification includes "Explore detected results and contributing events in Seq", a "Results" block with target URL, status code, and count, and a "Contributing Events" heading with two HTTP error log entries shown.
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Seq @datalust.co · 28/05/2026
Seq 2026.1 previews are rolling out! Today's fresh build includes percentiles over metric histograms, `ContributingEventsUrl` in alert notifications, and a bunch of other updates. datalust/seq:preview, or datalust.co/download 😎
A screenshot of a line chart for Npgsql db.client.connection.npgsql.create_time.
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Seq @datalust.co · 19/05/2026
Seq 2026.1 previews are now shipping weekly! These add support for OpenTelemetry metrics ✨ and a completely new metrics discovery and visualization UI. Check out this post for how to get started: datalust.co/blog/metrics...
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Seq 2026.1 preview builds now available
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Seq @datalust.co · 06/03/2026
New blog post! A first look at interactive metrics debugging with Seq: datalust.co/blog/seq-met...
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A first look at interactive metrics debugging with Seq
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Seq @datalust.co · 30/01/2026
Tip of the day: sleuthing for slow spans? Combine the @Elapsed built-in with duration expressions and 💥!
The Seq Events screen showing the search expression @Elapsed > 1m.
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Seq @datalust.co · 27/01/2026
January update! datalust.co/blog/jan-eng...
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January Engineering Update
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Seq @datalust.co · 27/01/2026
Seq's "What's New?" page has been cumulative since 2020.1. If you've skipped a release or two, it's a fantastic way to catch up quickly on anything you might have missed 🙂 datalust.co/docs/whats-new
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What's New in 2025.2?
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Seq @datalust.co · 17/12/2025
This year we've been in the lucky intersection of features most requested by Seq users, and deeply interesting new tech to design and build. Heading into 2026 we have a lot to unpack! @liammclennan.bsky.social started with an overview of column stores at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social this month.
Attendees and presenter in front of a slide titled "Column Oriented Database Internals"
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Seq @datalust.co · 16/12/2025
The Seq team rounded out 2025 at DDD Adelaide and then DDD Brisbane a month later, both fantastic community-oriented conferences. Here's Ashley Mannix sharing his experiences shepherding Seq's high-performance #rustlang codebase through back-to-back years of rapid growth.
Photograph of a busy lecture theater at DDD Brisbane with the presenter gesturing towards overhead slide projection.
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Seq @datalust.co · 05/12/2025
December Engineering Update: datalust.co/blog/decembe...
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December Engineering Update
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DDD Adelaide @dddadelaide.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Have you ever thought about having unit tests for your unit tests? 🤔 If so, decent chance your testing isn't catching the bugs you need and is just slowing you down ⏱️ @Ashley Mannix at #DDDAdelaide 2025 shows how to test complex software, challenging what a test is 🧪
At DDD Adelaide 2025 Ashley Mannix will be presenting Industrial Strength Testing for Complex Software
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David Gardiner @david.gardiner.net.au · 09/11/2025
Hey that's @liammclennan.bsky.social from @datalust.co speaking at @dddadelaide.bsky.social ! Head over to dddadelaide.com to find out more and buy your ticket before they're all gone. Less than two weeks to go.
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DDD Adelaide | 22nd November 2025
DDD Adelaide is an inclusive non-profit conference for the Adelaide software community.
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Seq @datalust.co · 04/11/2025
What are we working on, now? 👀 datalust.co/blog/what-ar...
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What are we working on, now?
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DDD Brisbane @dddbrisbane.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👏 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.
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DDD Brisbane @dddbrisbane.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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
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Seq @datalust.co · 24/07/2025
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.
A screenshot of the archived datalust/seq-forwarder repository on GitHub.
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Seq @datalust.co · 18/06/2025
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...
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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)...
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Seq @datalust.co · 18/06/2025
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! ☺️
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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 ...
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Seq @datalust.co · 18/06/2025
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...
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datalust/seq-tickets
Issues, design discussions and feature roadmap for the Seq log server - datalust/seq-tickets
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Seq @datalust.co · 04/06/2025
Analyzing the distribution of elapsed time and other telemetry metrics: a primer on averages, percentiles, histograms and heatmaps 🔥 blog.datalust.co/analyzing-th...
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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...
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Seq @datalust.co · 02/06/2025
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...
The Seq command palette, with "ran" typed in the filter box. The list shows the Custom Range, From Now, Next Range, Previous Range, and To Now shortcuts.
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Seq @datalust.co · 30/05/2025
Work Sharing in Seq Clusters ✨ blog.datalust.co/work-sharing...
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Work Sharing in Seq Clusters
We've reviewed leader election and replication in Seq clusters. While these are tricky to get right, and involve nontrivial code, they're dwarfed in complexity by work sharing, which is the basis of S...
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Seq @datalust.co · 29/05/2025
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 😊
The Seq 2025.1 Events screen, in the "classic" light theme.
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Seq @datalust.co · 28/05/2025
The nifty color palette we adopted here is based on Matteo Niccoli's perceptual rainbow palette, mycartablog.com/2013/02/21/p...
A Seq screenshot showing a heatmap of row counts over time.
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Seq @datalust.co · 28/05/2025
Introducing heatmaps: Seq now implements this popular visualization for three-dimensional data sets 😎 blog.datalust.co/introducing-...
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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...
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Seq @datalust.co · 28/05/2025
Data Replication in Seq Clusters - a new post on our engineering blog: blog.datalust.co/data-replica...
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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...
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Seq @datalust.co · 27/05/2025
What's new in `seqcli`? blog.datalust.co/whats-new-in...
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What's new in seqcli?
It's been a while since we posted an update on Seq's hard-working command-line client, seqcli. The 2025.1 build has just been released, but I'll include some favorites here from the 2024.x series as ...
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Seq @datalust.co · 22/05/2025
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...
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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
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Seq @datalust.co · 21/05/2025
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.
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Seq @datalust.co · 21/05/2025
A peek into the delicate machinery that adapts a running Seq node to its role in the cluster: blog.datalust.co/leader-elect...
The components responsible for tracking node state and orchestrating transitions. A consensus module interacts with the external cluster state database, feeding triggers into the node state machine. Simultaneously, a clock component fires triggers in the state machine too. The state machine sends commands to a command queue, which is observed by a command queue monitor. The command dispatcher pulls commands from the queue, and orchestrates the storage engine and application components.
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Seq @datalust.co · 21/05/2025
The first of a short series digging into how Seq 2025.1 implements HA and scale-out: blog.datalust.co/leader-elect...
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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 ...
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Seq @datalust.co · 21/05/2025
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...
The Seq Events screen, showing the command palette dialog as an overlay. The dialog comprises a search box and a list of matching commands. The search box has been filled with the word "signal", and the command list shows matches including "Add to Signal", "Clear All", "Exclude", "Save", and "Signals", each with help text. Beside the matching command names are the shortcut key sequences for each command, for example Add to Signal is Ctrl Space, A.
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Seq @datalust.co · 20/05/2025
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...
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Seq — centralized structured logs
Seq is the self-hosted search, analysis, and alerting server built for structured log data.
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Seq @datalust.co · 30/04/2025
We're proud to sit alongside these great companies supporting #NDCMelbourne 2025! Hope you're having a blast, Melburnians! 👋
Sponsor logos on a poster at the event: Auth0, Bunnings Warehouse, Elastic, Particular Software, REA Group, SafeStack, Seq, TinaCMS, YakShaver
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Seq @datalust.co · 29/04/2025
Today's the day to catch Liam McLennan's epic Nokia Composer rebuild at #NDCMelbourne! 😎 ndcmelbourne.com/slots/a-c-no...
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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
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Seq @datalust.co · 24/04/2025
It's time to prepare for Seq Clustering! 😎 All the details: blog.datalust.co/seq-clusteri...
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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...
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Seq @datalust.co · 24/04/2025
Hello, world! 👋
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