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Hi, We face a scenario when a QA engineer wants to save and transfer part of the log to developer machine for analysis . Another similar scenario is a customer that required to send his log to support team to analyze. currently the only method is to save to CSV, which makes it very difficult to analyze, as we miss the great filtering capabilities of Seq. What is your recommended approach for such cases? do yo plan to add some feature to better support such cases in the upcoming features? Thanks, Oren.
Posted by Oren Keinan about a year ago
What is the HTTP web request format for the API? You list the api uri's but not the attributes or json format for the body. I'm trying to login via a web request with. POST https://{seq server}/api/users/login x-www-form-urlencoded Username: {myusername} Password: {plaintextpassword} It's returns: "Error": "An unhandled error occurred while serving the request (token: ...)." header is: Accept: application/vnd.datalust.seq.v7+json Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded X-Seq-ApiKey: {mykey} Tried Content-Type: application/json { "Username":"username", "Password":"password" }
Posted by Tony Thompson about a year ago
I'm wondering if anyone has tried hosting Seq using Azure Container Instances? I'm assuming the fact they don't have a true hard drive and that they use "Azure Files" for storage would cause performance to be too slow to be of much use (if it could even work at all)?
Posted by Shane Courtrille about a year ago
Hello, we are trying to automatically provision users by using System --> "Automatically provision user-level access". New users get provisioned, if we do not specify "Automatic provisioning group". Since we do not want to grant access to everyone, we want to use the group setting.However, when specified, new users are not created and recieve a "Authentication failed" message, when trying to login. We are currently investigating, but it seems, that nested groups are not honoured. Our active directory group (group type: domain-local, security) only contains other groups (group type: universal, security). Did I do something wrong or is group nesting an unsupported scenario? We are using Seq 5.1.3118. Log: {"@t":"2019-06-11T09:17:29.8678290Z","@mt":"User {Username} successfully authenticated, but is not in the group specified for automatic provisioning","Username":"USER","Principal":{"Id":"principal-public","OnBehalfOfUserId":null},"ActionId":"2a071f44-8f0a-483d-ab88-97f6188972e2","ActionName":"Seq.Server.Web.UI.WindowsAuthenticationController.SignOnWindowsUser (Seq)","RequestId":"800072ca-0000-d200-b63f-84710c7967bb","RequestPath":"/integrated","CorrelationId":null} Thank you very much
Posted by Sebastian Segerer about a year ago
Using the search to find shared signals is a little annoying because I can't always guess what they might be called. Also, sometimes I just want to discover what other people on my team have shared without specifically knowing what I'm looking for. Right now I use the old search for all the vowels trick.
Posted by Kevin Berridge about a year ago
Hi, When I try to enable SSO in SEQ I get the following error: "Could not saving authentication details The server responded with HTTP status code 403 (Forbidden)." I am logged to SEQ using basic auth as a user with Admin permissions. Am I missing something?
Posted by Joshua Kelly about a year ago
Hi. We are trying to move our Seq instance from a Windows VM (service installation) to Kubernetes (using the latest v. 5.x image from docker). In this process we need to install a custom Seq app from our own Nuget feed (using Myget). When adding this app in a Seq instance using docker, we keep getting errors. I'm including stack traces below. Installing the same app on a Seq instance running on a local machine as a Windows service (exact same Seq version), works perfectly. Stacktraces: Without providing a version (which states it defaults to latest): ``` Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object ) at System.Dynamic.UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecute1[T0,TRet](CallSite site, T0 arg0) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.NuGet.PackageRepositoryV3.FindLatestVersionAsync(String packageId, Boolean allowPrereleaseVersions, Boolean allowUnlisted) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageStore.GetOrInstallAsync(NuGetFeed feed, String packageId, String version, Boolean force) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageInstaller.DownloadAndInterrogateAsync(String nuGetFeedId, String packageId, String version, Boolean force) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageInstaller.InstallPackageAsync(String nuGetFeedId, String packageId, String version) at Seq.Server.Web.Api.AppsController.InstallPackage(String feedId, String packageId, String version) ``` With an exact version: ``` Unable to install package "SeqToAzureQueue" v"2.0.0" from "nugetfeed-16" Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0. at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseValue() at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader.ReadForType(JsonContract contract, Boolean hasConverter) at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalReader.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, Boolean checkAdditionalContent) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeInternal(JsonReader reader, Type objectType) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(String value, Type type, JsonSerializerSettings settings) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject[T](String value, JsonSerializerSettings settings) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.NuGet.PackageRepositoryV3.<>c.<<JsonAsync>b__5_0>d.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.NuGet.PackageRepositoryV3.RequestAsync[T](HttpMethod method, String path, Func`2 withResponse) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.NuGet.PackageRepositoryV3.JsonAsync(HttpMethod method, String path) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.NuGet.PackageRepositoryV3.FindPackageAsync(String packageId, SemVersion version) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageStore.GetOrInstallAsync(NuGetFeed feed, String packageId, String version, Boolean force) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageInstaller.DownloadAndInterrogateAsync(String nuGetFeedId, String packageId, String version, Boolean force) at Seq.Server.Features.Installation.AppPackageInstaller.InstallPackageAsync(String nuGetFeedId, String packageId, String version) at Seq.Server.Web.Api.AppsController.InstallPackage(String feedId, String packageId, String version) ```
Posted by Kristian Johannessen about a year ago
I know how to configure the SEQ server to retain events until some constant amount of time has passed. Is it possible to customize this further? As an example, suppose both events from staging and production went to the same server. I can easily distinguish these events by enriching them with an environment key (with value "staging" or "production" respectively). Is it possible for me to configure a shorter retentions for the events from staging and a longer retention for the events from production?
Posted by Tyson Williams about a year ago
Hi, Could you please clarify how to use Serilog + Seq in the AWS Lambda Function. I've done configuration: private static void ConfigureLogger() { var levelSwitch = new LoggingLevelSwitch(); Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration() .MinimumLevel.ControlledBy(levelSwitch) .WriteTo.Seq(seq_url, apiKey: seq_apiKey, controlLevelSwitch: levelSwitch) .CreateLogger(); } Also tried to call Log.CloseAndFlush() at the end of my func and still no results.
Posted by Taras about a year ago
We have a number of different projects feeding into our server so generally start our search with something like `ProjectId="ABC"`, then find the property value we're looking for e.g. `UserName` -which is appended to all events. Selecting it clears the filter bar and replaces it with just `UserName="xyz"` which is ok but it would be better if you were further refining the current filter rather than resetting it i.e. it would be `ProjectId="ABC" && UserName="xyz"`
Posted by Tim Gaunt about a year ago
Love the new "Search FROM timestamp" and "Search TO timestamp" -it's really handy when trying to timebox a set of issues but it would be better if it only updated the relevant date field (at the moment it clears the other one i.e. "FROM" clears "TO"). Scenario: 1. I filter the rough time period from/to to the nearest hour I know the issue was 2. I find the last message I'm interested in after scrolling down so select "Search TO timestamp" -the "FROM" clears 3. I re-input "FROM" and find the start of the time period so set the "Search FROM timestamp" and the TO is cleared
Posted by Tim Gaunt about a year ago
A lot of the time when looking through logs for something else you spot something you'd like to send to a dev (or while discussing an issue). It would be great if you could "Copy link to clipboard" -similar to the "Find just this" or "Permalink" but they don't hit the mark: "Find just this" - updates the current view which is a pain while you're investigating things "Permalink" - means the event is around forever which you may not want
Posted by Tim Gaunt about a year ago