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Occasionally, in our browser based application, we have a javascript error that is intercepted and sent to our servers to log. There is a lot of detail captured in these log entries (basically a giant string), and when we view them in seq, they don't honor any line breaks that have been put into them. This makes them difficult to read. Is there a way to log a string with line breaks to make them easier to read?
Posted by John about a year ago
Hi all! Love Seq. We occasionally get ourselves into a situation with our non-prod Seq server where we're not as attentive as we should be to what's being ingested, and get a low disk warning on our servers. We're looking into setting retention policies for certain signals, etc. but in the interim, I'm wondering if there's a happy path prior to shutting down Seq and losing one or more whole Extents of data. If we were to run a deletion process across a large portion of events using the manual deletion functionality, is there any way to force or encourage Seq to kick off a compaction process, so that we can reclaim some of that space sooner than later? Thanks!
Posted by Sean Killeen about a year ago
We have some apps logging to SEQ through serilog in .NET and java code and there are a few apps that are seeing 401 on every seq event they attempt to send. double checking the config we have never required API auth for events so I am not sure why anyone logging to seq would get an unauthorized response. How can we track down why this may be happening to some of our apps?
Posted by Digital about a year ago
Context: helm version version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.0.2", GitCommit:"19e47ee3283ae98139d98460de796c1be1e3975f", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.13.5"} Hi everyone, We are trying to use the helm chart but are running into the following issues: ╰─ helm install seq stable/seq --version 1.0.3 ─╯ Error: failed to download "stable/seq" (hint: running `helm repo update` may help) ╰─ helm install seq stable/seq ─╯ Error: failed to download "stable/seq" (hint: running `helm repo update` may help) I didn't see any documentation on adding the helm repo but I was able to find the chart but unable to install this: ╰─ helm repo add seq https://hub.helm.sh/charts/stable/seq ─╯ Error: looks like "https://hub.helm.sh/charts/stable/seq" is not a valid chart repository or cannot be reached: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 8: mapping values are not allowed in this context
Posted by josh smith about a year ago
Hello, I am running the Seq 5.1 Docker image, but after restarting the container I get the following error: "Seq is unavailable. Failed to initialize storage: Flare native storage failed (InternalError), error attempting to checkpoint a metadata store. caused by: failed to checkpoint the store caused by: could not delete file at: "/data/Extents/2020-01-22_2020-01-29/extent.0.metadata" caused by: Device or resource busy (os error 16)" The Seq /data directory is mapped to a persistent volume as recommended in the documentation. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!
Posted by Chris S about a year ago
Hi Team, I have created the URL required to access it publicly but still not able to access it. Please let me know if I am missing anything. The dashboard is shared. http://<ServerName>:5341/#/dashboards?dashboardId=dashboard-835&range=2h&group=5m&refresh=5m&apikey=x&theme=dark-theme&maximized
Posted by Sarfraz Khan about a year ago
Hi, Our docker host went down due to malconfiguration in Seq. Since then we can not reach the host anymore using port 80. It seems that the service is not started with the Seq.json from the /data folder but with a limited version where SEQ does not listens to other ports. If I connect with bash on the docker host, I can not use the config [email protected]:/bin/seq-server# ./Seq config [16:26:52 FTL] Could not "list" config System.IO.IOException: Not a directory at Interop.ThrowExceptionForIoErrno(ErrorInfo errorInfo, String path, Boolean isDirectory, Func`2 errorRewriter) at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.Open(String path, OpenFlags flags, Int32 mode) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options) at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor(String path, Encoding encoding, Boolean detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, Int32 bufferSize) at System.IO.File.InternalReadAllText(String path, Encoding encoding) at System.IO.File.ReadAllText(String path) at Seq.Server.Config.SeqConfig.Read(String filename) at Seq.Server.Cli.ConfigCommand.Run(TextWriter cout) at Seq.Server.Program.Main(String[] args) Aborted (core dumped) How can I verify & make sure that Seq docker is running fine in docker?
Posted by Damiaan about a year ago
Hi! Love Seq. Just a quick suggestion: It would be great if you maintained an official Chocolatey package so that I can quickly update Seq via the command line. Octopus Deploy does this and it saves us time maintaining our local Octopus instance.
Posted by Jason Hess about a year ago
``` var found = signals.Find(entity => entity.Title == existing.Title); if (found) await connection.Signals.UpdateAsync(found); ``` is throwing **Attempted to process an empty URI template**. ``` at Seq.Api.Model.Link.GetUri(IDictionary`2 parameters) at Seq.Api.Client.SeqApiClient.ResolveLink(ILinked entity, String link, IDictionary`2 parameters) at Seq.Api.Client.SeqApiClient.<PutAsync>d__19`1.MoveNext() at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConfiguredTaskAwaitable.ConfiguredTaskAwaiter.GetResult() at Seq.Api.ResourceGroups.SignalsResourceGroup.<UpdateAsync>d__6.MoveNext() at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.GetResult() ``` Please could you tell me how I can work around this error? Many thanks!
Posted by Yoshi about a year ago
I put 2 charts in the dashboard that render the same query one as Pie and one as line. Is there any way to get the colors correlate by key? I tried ordering the results by the grouping key or by count but the colors seem to be picked at random. Also it would be nice if you put an order by in the query that the legend is sorted with that order by or at least an option to do so.
Posted by Jan Eggers about a year ago
Hello, one day last week and today we had an unusal high CPU-Load on our Seq-Server (nearly 100% for multiple hours). A "normal" load for us would be 20%. I noticed a lot of log entries in the ingestion log like this: ``` {"@t":"2020-01-21T04:23:46.0650812Z","@mt":"Exception raised when writing to event storage","@l":"Debug","@x":"Flare.FlareCapacityException: The FLARE extent 2020-01-15T00:00:00.0000000Z is temporarily read-only.\r\n at Flare.Storage.Native.FlareStorageExtent.AcquireWriteLock()\r\n at Flare.Storage.Native.FlareStorageExtent.Add(StructuredEvent[] events, Boolean lazyFlush)\r\n at Flare.Events.EventStore.Add(StorageEventCreationData[] eventsCreationData, Boolean lazyFlush)\r\n at Flare.Queries.DataStore.Add(StorageEventCreationData[] eventsCreationData, Boolean lazyFlush)\r\n at Seq.Server.Web.Api.RawEventsController.Ingest()","SourceContext":"Seq.Server.Web.Api.EventsController"} ``` I will provide the full logs via E-Mail. I am suspecting maybe our VM-Backup-Solution to try to make a backup, but I am not sure. Could it be something else? After some hours, the server went back to normal operation without any intervention from us. Thank you for your help.
Posted by Sebastian Segerer about a year ago
I have a new Seq instance (totally unconfigured) and trying to configure AAD auth using Seq API. When adding AAD auth to Seq manually using the GUI, it requires you to enter Tenant ID, Client ID, Client Key and an initial user, which I have. When I try to add an initial user: ``` var connection = new SeqConnection(serverUrl, apiKey); await connection.Users.AddAsync(initialUser); ``` This throws **400 - A password is required.** And when I do: ``` await connection.Settings.UpdateAsync(/*AzureADTenantId setting*/); await connection.Settings.UpdateAsync(/*AzureADClientId setting*/); await connection.Settings.UpdateAsync(/*AzureADClientKey setting*/); await connection.Settings.UpdateAsync(/*IsActiveDirectoryAuthentication setting*/); ``` This updates these settings OK. Seq will ask me to log in, however I will not have the initial user created at this point and therefore am unable to do so. How can I setup AAD auth and add the initial user at the same time using the API (just like the GUI does)? Many thanks!
Posted by Yoshi about a year ago
Hello, I'm using Serilog on FW 4.7.1 but unable to get logging ingress to Seq server working. Works great with .net core. It works perfectly when using programmatic config but does not work with json config ''' { "Logging": { "IncludeScopes": false, "LogLevel": { "Default": "Warning" } }, "Serilog": { "MinimumLevel": { "Default": "Information", "Override": { "Microsoft": "Warning", "System": "Warning" } }, "WriteTo": [ { "Name": "Seq", "Args": { "serverUrl": "http://localhost:5341/" } } ] } } ''' Self logging shows the following error: ** 2020-01-20T16:07:30.1011678Z Unable to find a method called Seq. Candidate methods are: Serilog.LoggerConfiguration Sink(Serilog.Configuration.LoggerSinkConfiguration, Serilog.Core.ILogEventSink, Serilog.Events.LogEventLevel, Serilog.Core.LoggingLevelSwitch) Serilog.LoggerConfiguration Logger(Serilog.Configuration.LoggerSinkConfiguration, System.Action`1[Serilog.LoggerConfiguration], Serilog.Events.LogEventLevel, Serilog.Core.LoggingLevelSwitch) ** ***This does NOT work*** ''' var builder = new Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilder(); builder.AddJsonFile(logCfgFileName, optional: false, reloadOnChange: true); var config = builder.Build(); mLogger = new LoggerConfiguration() .ReadFrom.Configuration(config) .CreateLogger(); ''' ***This works*** ''' mLogger = new LoggerConfiguration() .MinimumLevel.Debug() .WriteTo.Seq(@"http://localhost:5341/") .CreateLogger(); ''' What am I missing?? Thanks
Posted by Brian Brzozowski about a year ago
Hi I am getting following error in logs. "Failed to apply retention policy {RetentionPolicyId}","@l":"Error","@x":"Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.EsentDatabaseDirtyShutdownException: Database was not shutdown cleanly. Recovery must first be run to properly complete database operations for the previous shutdown.\r\n at Flare.Storage.Esent.Data.EsentDBSession..ctor(Instance instance, String path, Action notifyDisposed)\r\n at Flare.Storage.Esent.Data.EsentDB.BeginSession(Action notifyDisposed, String tag)\r\n at Flare.Storage.Esent.EsentStorageExtent.BeginSession(String tag)\r\n at Flare.Storage.Esent.EsentStorageExtent.<LazyDelete>d__18.MoveNext()\r\n at Flare.Events.EventStore.Delete(EventStoreRange range, CancellationToken cancel)\r\n at Flare.Queries.DataStore.Delete(EventStoreRange range, CancellationToken cancel)\r\n at Seq.Server.Features.Retention.RetentionPolicyApplier.ApplyPolicy(RetentionPolicyState retentionPolicy, Dictionary`2 associatedSignals, HashSet`1 retained, CancellationToken cancel)\r\n at Seq.Server.Features.Retention.RetentionPolicyApplier.Apply(CancellationToken cancel)","RetentionPolicyId":"retentionpolicy-15","SourceContext":"Seq.Server.Features.Retention.RetentionPolicyApplier"} I'm not able to delete events manually also.
Posted by Binil Prasad about a year ago