Add command to delete/clear events

[redoz]

It would be nice if it was possible to automate the deleting of all events from the command line.

[nblumhardt]

Thanks for the suggestion, we'll give this some thought.

[redoz]

Especially useful for those offline scenarios when you use seqcli to ingest log files:

1. acquire files (outside the scope of seqcli)
2. clean seq
3. ingest files

And thinking about it, it could even be a flag on "ingest": seqcli ingest --truncate --input=C:\temp\logs\* --server=http://localhost:7357/ --json

[notes2c]

Are there any plans implementing this feature ?

And it would also be nice if events could be delete based on a query.

[nblumhardt]

We'll revisit this again, thanks for the nudge :+1:

[nblumhardt]

We've reviewed this again and decided we'd rather not implement this. Manual event deletion is not intended to be a general feature in Seq, they're very much for emergency removal of accidentally-ingested data. Retention policies are almost always the better choice in production scenarios.

For local development scenarios, stopping Seq and removing the Stream/ folder under Seq's storage root is a suitable alternative for truncation.

Thanks again for all the input and feedback, though.