Move API key from one installation to another

[rzurlo]

Hi,
We have migrated our SEQ Server from our network to an Azure App Service.
The database migration was successful, but now we need to move the settings and API keys. Our customers' configurations still use the old API keys, and updating the settings for all customers would be burdensome.

Do you have any suggestions?

[KodrAus]

Hi @rzurlo 👋 To migrate your Seq server and keep its documents, you can follow the backup and restore docs. The most important thing here is that the secret key is the same between the old and new servers. In a managed container environment you can run the restore part of the process in an init script.

Note that Azure App Service is not a supported deployment target for Seq. You can run Seq in Azure Container Instances though. These services are very similar but subtly different; app service can start overlapping instances of your container which can lead to data corruptions, but container instances won't.