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We had an infra failure, backed up seq, installed on a new host, everything ran smoothly (which was really pleasant BTW!) except the graphs on the dashboard didn't seem to pick up data anymore. If I click on the title and get the query, the messages popped up, but not in the graph. Making a new graph with exactly the same query did work.
Posted by Jan-Pieter Zoutewelle 3 years ago
I'm attempting to store log data to a mounted SMB 3 fileshare. However on install SEQ notifies me that "Could not install the service: Seq requires a local (or SAN) storage location; network shares are not supported" What is the reason for not supporting network shares?
Posted by Luke Ryan 3 years ago
Our team is currently evaluating Seq for use in a few of our environments. So far the product has worked really well, but one potential pain point would be user management. Is it possible to grant access to the dashboard based on AD group membership? We already have a group that matches up nicely with the users we'd want to have access to the dashboard, so it would be much more convenient to manage mostly on the AD side.
Posted by Brian Potocki 3 years ago
Is it possible to assign a specific API key in Seq? The use case is several developers on the team, each with their own local instance of Seq. We'd like to be able to set a single "Development" environment API key in configuration so that each dev doesn't have to override with the API key generated by their instance of Seq.
Posted by Marty Tippin 3 years ago
Trying to evaluate Seq for use with SeriLog. I find that if the Seq server becomes unavailable, there are dozens of exceptions thrown related to Serilog trying to connect to the server. I further find that Serilog never reconnects after re-starting the Seq server. Clearly this won't work in a production environment where any number of issues could cause a temporary interruption of connectivity between the application and Seq. Any suggestions at to what's going on and whether it can be remedied?
Posted by Marty Tippin 3 years ago
I have several log events with collection properties holding a single element. The exact JSON for that property is: { "Name": "DisposedObjectTypeNames", "Value": [ "LcmpContext" ] } I thought the following filter would create a match, since one item in the collection meets the criteria: DisposedObjectTypeNames[?] == "LcmpContext" This did not return any results, but the all (*) wildcard produced the results I was looking for: DisposedObjectTypeNames[*] == "LcmpContext" I would expect the "all" wildcard to find these events, but I'm confused why the "any" version didn't pick up the results. I'm new to Seq/Serilog, so I hope I'm not missing something obvious.
Posted by Brian Potocki 3 years ago
3.3.10pre My original filter was: Environment = "ProdTest" && (@Level = "Error" || @Level = "Fatal") and I wanted to change to: Environment = "ProdTest" and (@Level = "Error" or @Level = "Fatal") changing the && -> and then the ||->or and either clicking the Ok button or hitting enter returned the text back to the original text Delete most of the line and only have: Environment = "ProdTest" [enter] works and changes the filter Now add in ... and (@Level = "Error" or @Level = "Fatal") [enter] Now this works and changes the filter
Posted by Tony Thompson 3 years ago
It seems you can not use an Azure Virtual IP as a listenUris member in seq.json. You have to use the machine url and not its VIP. I would like to use the VIP and not the url as one of the ingestion addresses. When I add an Azure "http://[myvip]:5341/", entry to the list and restart seq it fails to start. Remove this line and it starts just fine. The VIP is the address assigned to the Seq Windows VM; which is a Windows 2012 R2 server. Note: this is only for ingestion. The UI is accessed by SSL port 443. This occurs when if the VIP is the only uri in the list. "http://13.73.xxx.yyy:5341/", Seq log: System.Net.HttpListenerException (0x80004005): The format of the specified network name is invalid at System.Net.HttpListener.AddAllPrefixes() at System.Net.HttpListener.Start() at Nancy.Hosting.Self.NancyHost.TryStartListener() at Nancy.Hosting.Self.NancyHost.StartListener() at Nancy.Hosting.Self.NancyHost.Start() at Seq.Server.ServiceProcess.ServerService.Start()
Posted by Tony Thompson 3 years ago
Hello Seq, I was wondering if it's possible (meanwhile there's no a fault-tollerant solution) to have a master/slave replication of Seq db (even a bulk file copy) to have a backup in case of server fault. Is this possible? how? Thanks in advance
Posted by Paolo Ponzano 3 years ago
We are in the process from upgrading from version 3.1.17 to version 3.2.16. On our test server the logging seems to be working fine, the problem is when we assign a log to another user. When the user goes to their dash the assigned box spins and never loads anything. Is there a way to resolve this?
Posted by Kevin Owens 3 years ago
We are seeing the following error in our logfiles: 2016-08-09 15:53:12.302 +02:00 [Error] Failed to apply retention policy "retentionpolicy-39" Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.EsentObjectNotFoundException: No such table or object at Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.Table..ctor(JET_SESID sesid, JET_DBID dbid, String name, OpenTableGrbit grbit) at Seq.Storage.Isam.EventStoreExtent..ctor(SeqDBSession session) at Seq.Storage.Events.EventStore.Delete(StorageRange range, CancellationToken cancel) at Seq.Server.Features.Retention.RetentionPolicyApplier.ApplyPolicy(RetentionPolicyState retentionPolicy, Signal signal, IEnumerable`1 retained, CancellationToken cancel) at Seq.Server.Features.Retention.RetentionPolicyApplier.Apply(CancellationToken cancel)
Posted by Søren Bjørn-Fallesen 3 years ago
Hi Nick, I love Seq, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I've struggled with the Tags feature. I totally misunderstood what you intended "Tags" to do. In spite of the prominent *"TAGS: Use the tick-mark beside property names to show them as top-level tags."* label, I was convinced that I __must__ need to convert a filter expression or a Signal into a Tag. The help page has no mention of the Tags feature, but I eventually figured out that you "Tag" specific properties to force rows that include that property to display their value within the row summary using a distinct background color per Tag. Nice. Let me make the case for a different feature then. For now let's call it "Flag". I'd like to be able to turn any filter or query that I've defined into a "Flag". This filter expression would then be used to identify matching rows and annotate them with the Flag name(s) and/or use a distinct style to visually highlight them. Tags are shown as colored [myTag] blocks inserted into the row. Flags could be similar, or perhaps they could alter the row styles in some way? e.g. change the background color of matching rows. Although that would be messy for rows with multiple Flags, it would be ideal for visualizing interactions between multiple source systems. There would then be choices to "move to Signal" and "move to Flag". It would be really nice to be able to edit them to choose whether they should act as Filters or Flags. I was worried you were running out of things to do... Tom
Posted by Tom Grant 3 years ago
Microsoft will do a Key rollover for Azure AD. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/upcoming-azure-active-directory-certificate-rollover-august-15-2016/ Does SEQ Support auto Signing Key Rollover, or will it be a manual process? Thanks Stefan
Posted by Stefan von Arx 3 years ago
Currently we have projects that install some of the Seq dependencies to the GAC. The versions of the dependencies aren't the same which result in Seq using the wrong version of the dependencies in the GAC causing it to throw an exception where some methods aren't available in the version registered in the GAC.
Posted by Pieter Roux 3 years ago