Seq
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Seq, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Seq's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | Free | 1 user · community support · 50 GB storage · up to 100 million metric samples · $0 /year |
| Team | $1,090 a year | up to 10 users · priority email support · 100 GB storage · up to 1 billion metric samples · 1 server install · $1,090 /year |
| Standard | $2,990 a year | unlimited users · priority email support · unlimited storage · unlimited metric samples · up to 3 server installs · $2,990 /year |
| Datacenter | $10,990 a year | unlimited users · priority email support · unlimited storage · unlimited metric samples · unlimited server installs · clustering · auditing · assisted onboarding · $10,990 /year |
The facts
Each one read from Seq's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI agents
- Seq supports agent integration through its command-line client and MCP server.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI and agent access
- Seq's product page says agents can integrate through its CLI or MCP for live debugging or alert triage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Air-gap use
- Seq is designed to work with hardware and network isolation, and outbound connectivity for update checks or telemetry is opt-in.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Alerts
- Users can define custom alert conditions and send notifications to Slack, Teams and email.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CLI forwarder
- seqcli includes a store-and-forward ingestion proxy for intermittently connected systems.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Command-line client
- seqcli can log, search, tail, query and ingest JSON or plain-text files from any operating system.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance deployment
- Datalust says Seq can run entirely on customer servers without external cloud services, supporting secured GDPR, DORA, HIPAA or PCI environments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- C# SDK
- The Seq.Api NuGet package provides C# representations and helpers for the server API.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dashboards
- Seq includes saved queries and dashboards without imposing limits on their number.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- Seq stores log data on the machine or cloud infrastructure hosting it, and the pricing FAQ says log and trace data is never sent to or shared with Datalust.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Seq is self-hosted and supported on Windows or under Docker/Linux, and can be deployed on-premises or in a public cloud.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers ingestion, querying, dashboards, alerting, authentication, storage, backups, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, clustering, APIs and troubleshooting.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Seq plug-in input and output apps can be written in C# or other languages.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented ingestion options include Serilog, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, OpenTelemetry, Node.js libraries, HTTP, GELF, syslog, RabbitMQ, Docker and Kubernetes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- The license agreement identifies the maker as Datalust Pty Ltd.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- Seq is proprietary subscription software; its agreement grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable internal-use license and forbids copying, resale and source-code derivation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License limits
- The Individual license permits one person to access a Seq web interface, while more than one user of an instance requires a multi-user subscription.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Light workload hardware
- For a light workload, documentation recommends at least 2 CPU cores, 3.5 GB RAM and 50 GB SSD storage.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: ecosystem focus
- Toolradar lists .NET and Windows focus, per-user pricing and a learning curve among Seq’s drawbacks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: forwarder security
- The seqcli forwarder does not authenticate incoming requests by default and can expose disk-exhaustion risk if reachable by untrusted clients.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Datalust was founded in Australia in 2013 by Nicholas and Susan Blumhardt.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2013checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Datalust lists Level 1, 240 Queen Street, Brisbane 4000, Australia.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Limit: cloud cost
- A GitHub discussion reported that running Seq in Azure with premium storage was expensive relative to other services.checked 15 Oct 2026
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