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TL;DR: for the latest UX and performance improvements, pull datalust/seq:latest from Docker Hub, or grab the MSI from datalust.co/download. Seq 2024. »

Introducing the new Seq.App.Mail.* packages for SMTP and Microsoft365 email. A lot has changed since the first email notification plugin was written for Seq! »

Seq 2024.1 introduced a change to the default display of nested event properties. Previous versions of Seq rendered collapsed nested structures that could be expanded »

Distributed tracing makes Seq even better for monitoring and troubleshooting the behavior and performance of complex distributed systems. The emerging standard for logging and tracing is »

.NET Aspire is a toolkit for development and deployment of microservice applications. It is a local orchestrator with support for deployment to production-grade orchestrators like Azure »

OpenTelemetry has emerged as an important standard for generating observability data. It provides a consistent model across all environments and reduces vendor lock-in. As such, we »

Seq uses the OpenTelemetry service.name attribute, or Serilog-style Application property, to determine which color should be used for the spans belonging to a service. This »

Seq 2024.1 is here! 🎉 Get the Windows MSI at datalust.co/download, or pull datalust/seq:latest from Docker Hub. Distributed, hierarchical tracing Traces track »

Seq 2024.1 RC is ready for you to try! 🎉 * Seq-2024.1.*-pre at downloads.datalust.co * datalust/seq:preview on Docker Hub * datalust/seq:preview »

TL;DR: Seq 2024.1 will fully support distributed tracing, including OpenTelemetry trace ingestion, trace indexing, and hierarchical trace visualization. The datalust/seq:preview container images »