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I'm running Seq on an Azure instance (Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter) and logging with Serilog from a console application running on my local workstation. I have 3 sinks configured - File, Console and Seq. I'm also running on dnxcore50 (just in case you were thinking my setup wasn't dodgy enough). All my events are showing up in console and the file 100% of the time. Seq is only capturing event about 1 in 5 runs, that is it will either capture all the events for the run or none of them. I've set up SelfLog.Out on the loggers, but that logs nothing at all. Has anyone seen anything similar? Is this something I should expect pushing log events across the public web (i.e. would it work reliably if I hosted Seq on my local network)? Or is this probably something to do with Serilog, and I should be asking over there? Thanks.
Posted by [email protected] 3 years ago
I understand .Net 5 has just hit RC1, but are there any plans for a cross-platform version of Seq? I've been starting to work with the 2.0 branch of Serilog and sometimes I like to work on my Mac. It would be nice to not have to run an Azure instance and be able to log to localhost for development.
Posted by [email protected] 3 years ago
Hi! We are using Serilog with Seq sink, latest versions from Nuget The sink is configured to use buffer file and batch limit is 10 For the most part this worked OK, but for a couple of apps I see that sending events to Seq is not happening. For the apps that work we usually see a .bookmark file and 1-2 buffer .json files. For the misbehaving apps though, there are like two dozen buffer files now and the bookmark file is stuck at 10/23 (today is 1/12 already) I do not see any invalid payloads coming in and I have tried rebooting the application pools to no avail. Thankfully, only test environment is affected so far Is there something I can do to fix this problem? Thanks
Posted by Vitalii Biliienko 3 years ago
We're running Seq on a server alongside some other applications but it's consuming almost all the available RAM. We already have a 30-day retention policy set up. Is there some way to set an upper limit on Seq's RAM utilization?
Posted by Michael Carr 3 years ago
We are looking into SeriLog and Seq, and it looks very interesting. But we have a concern about how we must use the SeriLog format in our code. To get full value from SeriLog, we should use their string formatting like: Log.Info("Hello World {@Object}", object) Maybe the string formatting should be extracted to a separate package so that this is easier be used to format the text in another framework? Having it in a separate package will make it easier for us to at least keep the formatting if another logging framework is more convenient. Now we feel that we are adapting the SeriLog way of doing it all around our source code. It might be that we want to use SeriLog and Seq even if we have to use this format around our code since the benfits of Seq apparently are huge. Do you have any thoughts about this concern?
Posted by Svein Wang Dybvik 3 years ago
Hi, Currently, on the dashboard (as of v2.3.4) , the only "granularity" options are : - day by hour - week by day - month by day - year by month Is there any way we can achieve : "week by hour" ? We would like to be able to detect patterns of errors occurring at specific times repeatedly every day (for instance database overload occurring every day at "rush hour") , and that would be useful . Can you think of a way of getting that kind of information through another way , with some advanced queries, maybe ?
Posted by Thibaud Desodt 3 years ago
While testing API Keys, I created a property "api-key" which is applied when an API key is used. The problem is that the property name "api-key" doesn't appear to behave correctly when used with filters such as Has(), such as `Has(api-key)`. Is there an escape syntax (such as [] in SQL) which will allow this to work?
Posted by Gerard Escalante 3 years ago
I have Seq Server 2.3.4 installed in an Azure VM and I noticed it's becoming slower and slower everyday. VM CPU is around 20% and Memory 50% so it's not lack of resources. But it's worth mentioning that Seq is using that 20% CPU and 1GB of memory. Is here a way to optimize the entries ? Or delete the older ones? I don't mind losing old entries.
Posted by Emzero 3 years ago
Really loving this logging system, from a standing start at lunchtime we've got one of our apps logging with various properties and a load of signals set up. Do you have example code to post errors from JavaScript this way we can have our client and server side errors in one bucket?
Posted by Neil McQuillan 3 years ago
SEQ seems to package it's own web server, ideally we want to lock down access to the `error viewer` via Windows Authentication so our technical team can view errors. We'd be happy to login twice, but we trust Windows Auth to stop people being able to `get in`. Can we lock down the error reporting end point in the same way? We think your product looks awesome, but we're concerned the built in web server might be a significant security issue which we cannot manage properly.
Posted by Neil McQuillan 3 years ago
We've started using SEQ quite extensively and have started prefixing our signals so the sorting will keep them grouped together, e.g.{Applications}, [Alerts], (User Events), etc. Allowing a signal to be assigned to a 'group' would make managing different signal types easier.
Posted by Jeremy Smith 3 years ago
Hi, I'm trying to install Seq.App.EmailPlus. This seems to work fine on my dev PC. I also want to install it on the Seq server we use it production but installation is failing. After clicking the 'Install' button the UI waits for 20 seconds and then shows the error message : "Could not install app An error occurred while loading packages from'https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/': Unable to connect to the remote server'". I checked Seq's log and can see an error around the same time, which starts with the line: "System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred while loading packages from'https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/': Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 191.236.146.247:443" Our production server requires a proxy server for outbound connections. Is it possible that Seq can't do the install because it's having problems connecting through the proxy? Is there another way of installing that doesn't pull the package directly from nuget? Thanks, Simon.
Posted by Simon Chester 3 years ago
Nick, I was wondering if you had any advice on a best approach on using durable log shipping in an Azure Cloud Service, specifically related to local disk access. Microsoft makes it difficult (which is a good thing) to write a local file without either jumping through hoops, etc... Have you found a proven, reliable method that is not subject to all of the disk related issues (i.e. possibility of drive letter shift between restarts)? Thanks, Jim
Posted by James Legan 3 years ago