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Seq is the intelligent search, analysis, and alerting server built for modern structured logs and traces.

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News and announcements

Seq 2025.2 Release

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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 too late for the final cut-off date. Today's release, Seq 2025.

Analyzing the distribution of elapsed time and other telemetry metrics

Wednesday, 04 June 2025

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 metric over time. People are good at detecting patterns in sounds and images, but not

Work Sharing in Seq Clusters

Friday, 30 May 2025

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 Seq's scale-out functionality.

Seq clusters ingest data at

New from Datalust

On .NET Live - Application logs and diagnostics with Serilog

Nicholas Blumhardt talks application diagnostics with Cecil Phillip in On .NET Live.

.NET Rocks! #1647 - Rust and C# with Ashley Mannix

Ashley Mannix talks with Carl and Richard about the combination of Rust and C# used at Datalust.

C# and Rust: Combining Managed and Unmanaged Code Without Sacrificing Safety, NDC Oslo 2019

Ashley Mannix explores the tools that .NET and Rust give us to design and build safe and robust hybrid applications.

Parsing in C# from First Principles, NDC Sydney 2018

Nicholas Blumhardt talks about Superpower, the library we built for parsing SQL queries in Seq, and the foundational principles behind it.

Open Source and the Future of Seq

Brendan Richards interviews Nicholas Blumhardt about Open Source, Rust, Seq, Serilog, and more, in this AMA from NDC Sydney 2018.

Using Structured Logging for Production Insight

Microsoft's Damian Brady and Nicholas Blumhardt talk structured logging in this episode of The DevOps Lab.

.NET Rocks! #1466 - The Evolution of Serilog

Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin, and Nicholas Blumhardt talk all things logging, diagnostics, and monitoring in this .NET Rocks! episode recorded at NDC Oslo 2017.

Serilog: Instrumentation that Works for You, NDC Oslo 2017

Nicholas Blumhardt presents a complete walk-through of Serilog and modern structured logging at NDC Oslo 2017.