Seq Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Seq hosting gives you a self-hosted structured log server on your own domain: search logs and traces, build alerts and ingest over HTTPS. Deploy Seq 2025.2 as one pinned container with a generated administrator password, a persistent data volume and API-key-only ingestion, published in minutes, with ingestion limited to clients holding a key. Installing it accepts the Datalust Seq EULA, because Seq is proprietary.

Deploy your Seq

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What is Seq?

Seq is a self-hosted, centralized logging tool for structured logs, with search, analysis and alerting for logs and traces. Upstream describes filtering and pivoting on structured events, diagnosing slow requests through traces, live metrics, and alerts that notify Slack, Teams and email. A self-hosted Seq is an alternative to hosted log management for teams that want events on their own infrastructure. It is proprietary software under the Datalust EULA, not open source.

On xCloud it is Seq 2025.2 from the official image, pinned by digest, as one container with events, indexes, users and API keys on the seq_data volume. xCloud generates the first-run admin password, requires authentication for HTTP ingestion and serves the app over HTTPS. Installing it accepts the Datalust EULA.

From Sign-Up to a Live Seq In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Seq install needs the server, a data volume, a first-run administrator, ingestion that is not open to the world, a domain and a certificate before the first event arrives. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Seq from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and a server with at least 2 CPU cores and 3.5 GB of RAM; the install form has no fields.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start datalust/seq:2025.2, pinned by digest, mount seq_data at /data, generate the first-run admin password, require authentication for HTTP ingestion and publish it over HTTPS. Installing accepts the Datalust Seq EULA.
Step 03
Sign In And Create An API Key
Sign in as admin with the generated password and choose a new one when Seq asks. Then create an API key under Settings, API Keys and point log clients at your HTTPS URL with the key.

Centralized Logs And Traces: Seq On Your Own Server

Seq runs here as one authenticated server, with events and indexes on a volume you control.

Structured Log Search
Filter and pivot on structured log events to find the one that matters among the noise, from the web interface.
Traces
Diagnose slow requests and discover service dependencies using trace data stored alongside your logs.
Metrics
Upstream also shows live application and infrastructure metrics in the same place as logs and traces.
Alerts
Define custom alert conditions with notifications to Slack, Teams and email. Email and other outputs are Seq Apps you install from the UI.
API-Key Ingestion
Clients send events to your HTTPS URL with an API key. Anonymous and invalid-key ingestion is refused with 401.
CLI And MCP Access
Upstream lists access through Seq's command line and MCP, so scripts and agents can query the server.

Everything You Need To Run Your Log Server 24/7

Managed hosting for Seq, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Seq 2025.2 deployed instantly
Image pinned by digest
Admin password generated
Authenticated ingestion required
Free SSL certificate
Events and indexes on a persistent volume
Server backups and snapshots
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Seq

Search structured logs from your apps
Send application events with properties and filter them by field instead of grepping text files.
Alert the team when an error pattern appears
Define a condition and route a notification to Slack, Teams or email once you install the matching Seq App.
Follow a slow request across services
Use traces to see where time goes between services and which dependency is slow.
Keep log data on your own infrastructure
Hold events on a server you control, with no subprocessors involved on the Seq side, per the product page.

Seq vs Alternatives

Hosted log management: As a self-hosted alternative to hosted log management, Seq holds your events, indexes and API keys on a Cloud VPS dedicated to you. It is proprietary, so read the EULA.
Graylog: Graylog has its own OneClick page. In a Seq vs Graylog comparison, both centralise logs you host yourself, so compare ingestion formats, licensing and the resources each one needs.
Loki: Loki has its own OneClick page. It is another log store to compare when choosing where logs and traces will live.
SigNoz: SigNoz has its own OneClick page. It is an observability platform covering logs, traces and metrics, so compare scope and licence with Seq.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Seq hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Below the template's own manifest floor.

24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Room for higher event volume and longer retention.

84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

Get started

Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Seq is proprietary software under the Datalust EULA.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Log Server?

Seq on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your events, your keys, your domain.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Seq open source?

No. Seq is proprietary software governed by the Datalust Seq EULA, and installing it through this template accepts that EULA. Check that it covers your use, which is internal hosting on your own infrastructure, not resale. This is a Seq cloud of your own, not a service you resell.

Can you self-host Seq with Docker?

Yes. Datalust publishes an official image, and this template is Seq Docker hosting without the setup: the 2025.2 image pinned by digest, a data volume, a generated administrator password and HTTPS on your own domain.

How much RAM does Seq need?

The manifest asks for 3584 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk, following Datalust's guidance of about 3.5 GB for a light workload. Datalust documents much more for loaded production, and this page sells the 16 GB plan.

What is the Seq admin password?

There is no preset password. Each install generates a 32-character password for the admin account, shown in the credentials, and Seq makes you choose a new one at first login. Later changes happen under Settings, Users.

How do I send logs to Seq?

Create an API key under Settings, API Keys, then point your clients at your HTTPS URL with the X-Seq-ApiKey header or an apiKey query parameter. The dedicated ingestion port is not published; ingestion uses the same URL.

Can anyone send logs to my Seq server?

No. The template sets authentication for HTTP ingestion, so anonymous and invalid-key requests are refused with 401. Without that setting anyone on the internet could write events to the server, so keep API keys private and rotate any that leak.

Does Seq send alerts by email?

Not on install. Alerts can notify Slack, Teams and email, but outbound integrations such as SMTP are Seq Apps that you install and configure from the UI, such as the SMTP mail app. They are not container environment variables.

Does Live Tail work through Cloudflare?

It was not confirmed. The event list and queries work over standard HTTPS, but Live Tail over WebSockets through a Cloudflare-proxied domain was not verified, so test it on your own domain before you rely on it.

How do I back up Seq?

Back up the seq_data volume, which holds events, indexes, users, API keys and Seq's configuration. Stop Seq before a filesystem snapshot so the copy is consistent, restore on the same image series, then confirm login and a query.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Seq?

The install stays on its pinned 2025.2 image until you adopt a newer template version. Back up seq_data first and read Datalust's release notes. Nothing upgrades automatically, and disk use grows with retention, so plan storage for the logs you keep.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.