Feedback and our own experiences working with this feature suggest that it's great for some types of data, and inappropriate for others.
Alongside the personal user preference "Flatten the event properties view" which toggles the default display globally, Seq 2024.2 will allow any object to be switched between flat and nested display directly in the event properties view:
Seq 2024.1 introduced a new "flattened" view for embedded structured data in log events.
Feedback and our own experiences working with this feature suggest that it's great for some types of data, and inappropriate for others.
Alongside the personal user preference "Flatten the event properties view" which toggles the default display globally, Seq 2024.2 will allow any object to be switched between flat and nested display directly in the event properties view:
See also #2087, #2094, #2085, #2091