Axiom Blog
Articles, engineering notes, and company updates from Axiom.
Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets
Lessons in shaping MCP responses to be useful, predictable, and small by default.
Haydex: From Zero to 178,600,000,000 rows a second in 30 days
This is the story of how we turned a failed filter prototype into a production system running at 178.6B rows/sec in 30 days.
Your agents are only as good as their context. Give them everything with Axiom MCP
Connect your AI agents directly to your organization’s event data with Axiom’s MCP server, turning hours of debugging into seconds of automated investigation.
Understand your event data in seconds with Spotlight
Use Spotlight to dig deeper into your query results, helping you diagnose issues faster.
What building AI features taught us about the future of observability
We built 3 production-ready AI features in one week—and learned what it really takes to ship AI with confidence. Discover how Axiom is rethinking observability for the AI era.
Axiom’s new JS logging libraries: Flexible, powerful, framework-agnostic
A new suite of libraries designed from the ground up to be flexible, powerful, and framework-agnostic.
Monitoring at Axiom
Learn about monitors and how they can help solve observability problems from one of the engineers working on monitoring at Axiom.
Events, logging, and compliance
In today’s regulatory landscape, logs are both asset and liability.
Introducing Flow: Redefining event data processing
Axiom launches Flow, a game-changing feature that empowers organizations to filter, transform, and route their event data with unprecedented flexibility and efficiency.
Connect Axiom’s monitors to your favorite services
Use custom webhooks to connect Axiom monitors to your favorite services.
Introducing our new documentation
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve transitioned our documentation to a new platform.
Introducing annotations
Get started with annotations to enrich your charts with contextual insights.
Introducing Axiom Terraform Provider
Check out Axiom Terraform Provider to provision and manage Axiom resources such as datasets and monitors with Terraform.
Freedom from limits
Every product we tried had built-in limits. We designed Axiom from the ground up not to have them.
Why Axiom + your S3 may be the solution
Compliance. AI training. API for apps. Pair Axiom’s SaaS with your AWS storage to meet your needs.
Bring Your Own Bucket: A look under the hood
Enterprise customers don’t have to choose between data locality and Axiom’s full benefits.
Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story
From insight to implementation of adaptive time compression in Axiom’s columnar database.
Introducing BYOB: Bring Your Own Bucket
Reap all the benefits of Axiom while keeping your data on your own AWS S3.
How to Enrich OPNsense Events with Threat Intel
Axiom eliminates cost worries at scale, so go ahead and enrich your data sources to provide additional insights.
How to Use Axiom with OPNsense logs
Axiom lets you decide whether to parse fields in firewall data up front or wait until query time as fits your needs.
Why should I even consider OTel?
OpenTelemetry kicks open the door to much greater observability for much less work. Axiom is built to maximize OTel’s potential.
Observability: A brilliant idea whose name has been hijacked
If you don’t have 100% of your logs, metrics, and traces available for analysis, you don’t have Observability.
Distributed Tracing adds visual instrumentation for microservices
Trace all events across your infrastructure in a simple, friendly UI.
New Pricing: Axiom starts lower, stays lower
Our next-generation architecture and algorithms let us deliver 100% of your events at petabyte scale and keep them for longer — all for less than you may be paying now.
Upgrade your Grafana experience with the Axiom data source plugin
Grafana dashboards, alerts and Explore tabs now work with Axiom’s hyper-efficient event repository and APL query language.
Monitoring HTTP Requests with Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers provides a serverless execution environment that you can use to rewrite HTML, A/B testing, cache request’s and much more. Today we’re excited to announce that you can now log your HTTP requests directly to Axiom via a Cloudflare Worker.
How We Made the Axiom Vercel Integration Even Better
A look at the recent improvements to the Axiom Vercel integration.
Zero-Config Observability for Netlify
Axioms Netlify integration collects key metrics and logs that provide greater visibility into your Netlify sites, as well as the health and performance of your applications hosted in Netlify
Monitoring AWS Lambda with Axiom
The Axiom Lambda Extension lets you monitor Lambda performance and aggregate system-level metrics for your serverless applications and optimize lambda functions through easy-to-use automatic dashboards.
Get Deep Visibility into CloudFront Logs with Axiom
To ensure you run workloads properly, organizations need deep visibility into the health and performance of their CloudFront workloads at different layers, including the CloudFront origin domain and path.
June Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
This month, the Axiom team shipped tons of product updates, bugs fixes, a lot of performance improvements, and also celebrated the release of **Advanced Observability for Vercel using** Next.js with **`next-axiom`** ## Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom! ### Advanced Observability for Vercel
May Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
This month, the Axiom team shipped tons of product updates, bugs fixes, a lot of performance improvements, new tutorials and also celebrated the release of our **Vercel Integration - zero-configuration dashboards with the most critical observability data.** ## Read on to discover what’s new at Axi
April Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
Hi! This April was all about lots of performance improvements, E2E testing, deployments, bug fixes and we also shipped lots of exciting product updates. ## Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom! ### Cancellable Queries We added the **Cancel** button on Analytics and Data Explorer for you to c
Vercel Integration
### Axiom can now connect with Vercel to provide the best logging platform for Vercel apps! [Axiom’s Vercel integration](https://vercel.com/integrations/axiom) enables you to monitor the health and performance of your Vercel deployments by ingesting all your request, function, and web vitals data
Make Your Logstash Pipeline More Powerful with Axiom
Use Axiom to collect and monitor all your logs in your Logstash pipeline. If your engineering team is running logstash, read on to learn how we can help
February Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
**👋 Hi folks!** This February was all about lots of performance improvements, bug fixes and we also shipped lots of exciting product updates. ### Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom! 🙂 --- ### New icons on Timestamp and Virtual fields to identify the field type You can now view the times
Shipping Filesystem Metrics to Axiom
Metricbeat collects metrics from sources which can be a file system, network, CPU processes, memory, and services. Metricbeat understands how to process your services into a specified format which is later on transmitted and shipped into a destination like **Axiom.** Using Metricbeat, you can colle
November Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
**Hey folks 👋** In November, the Axiom team shipped tons of product updates, bugs fixes, a lot of performance improvements, new tutorials and also celebrated the release of **Repobeats - Stunning insights for your GitHub Repo.** ## Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom. 👇 --- ## Embed analy
Query Logs with Axiom CLI
Monitoring your infrastructure resources is every organization’s need. Every server, backend, Kubernetes resource, and application generates tons of logs every day. Axiom CLI helps you store and query insights from the data collected from various data sources on Axiom. Running queries with Axiom CL
Monitor and Analyze Your Heroku Applications with Axiom
Whether running complex workloads, hosting, or configuring web servers, Axiom provides monitoring tools with a 360-degree view across your Heroku applications.
October Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
**👋 Hi folks!** This October was all about lots of performance improvements, bug fixes and we also shipped lots of exciting product updates. ### Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom! ## Monitoring using Axiom’s Data Explorer This month, we published the latest tutorial on Axiom Data Explore
Monitoring using Axiom’s Data Explorer
As the transforming power of big data expands across business environments, the volume of your data streams also grows to new magnitudes, performance and identifying problems and failures also grow on a very large scale. To discover valuable business insights and answer critical questions and make
September Changelog: What’s New at Axiom
**Hi folks!** In September, the Axiom team shipped lots of exciting product updates, new tutorials and also released Axiom Processing Language (APL), a query language that is perfect for getting deeper insights from your data. ## Read on to discover what’s new at Axiom 👇 # Getting intricate ale
Introducing Axiom Playground
We are excited to announce [Axiom Playground](https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/datasets), a demo environment for you to try out Axiom’s data analytics platform, on real live data. **Axiom Playground provides you with three views:** - Datasets: A query builder for simple data analytics. - Str
Improved Incident Response with Alerts from PagerDuty on Axiom
Whether you’re managing simple or complex services, having visibility into your digital operations, webhook, mobile app, web app, Github, REST API, and knowing what is happening throughout the day is incredibly important for availability, incident management, dynamic notifications, incident details
Observing IBM Kubernetes service
Modern DevOps is becoming more complex to handle manually, therefore monitoring and tracking your resources, container environments, and workload is strenuous. In most cases, you have over a hundred different processes running on your Kubernetes environment maintaining such setup to run smoothly a
Getting the best out of Axiom’s Log Streams
While log analytics can be powerful when you have a great idea of exactly what insights you would like to extract, sometimes you want to get a feel of how a system or deployment is doing live. With Axiom’s live streaming feature, you can quickly view, filter, and extract logs from any data source w
Learn how to setup Monitors and Notifiers
Monitoring your apps and services is key for detecting problems before they widely impact your users. Axiom’s Monitors and Notifiers work hand-in-hand to ensure Axiom is always working in the background to make sure you’re made aware if any faults are detected. **In this guide, I will show you how
Use Axiom and MetricBeat to better understand system performance
Learn to ship data from Metricbeat to Axiom. By correlating complex data, Axiom can show extensive breakdowns of system load metrics and data memory performance
Visualizing log events with Axiom
Axiom’s log analytics allow you to get deep visual representations of your events which can be crucial for monitoring your apps and services. By adding log analytics to your devops tool chest, you will be able to get a more comprehensive overview of your data and how it changes over time. **In thi
Use Axiom and Redis for better performance monitoring
Learn how to use Axiom to sort through the noise, identify key metrics, and quickly identify performance issues. You need a better Redis monitoring tool: Axiom.
Getting Sophisticated alerts from Filebeat on Axiom
Configuring alerts on your FileBeat events is essential to catch issues within your system. Learn how to set up triggers and alerts from your Filebeat events.
Shipping uptime metrics to Axiom
In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor and analyze your heartbeat uptime metrics, health, and performance of your web applications on **Axiom.** [Heartbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/index.html) is a lightweight daemon that you install on your local machine
Monitoring Rancher with Axiom
[Rancher](https://rancher.com/) is an open-source cloud-native platform for Kubernetes management. It allows you to manage and scale workloads consistently across different clusters in any environment, while supporting any certified Kubernetes distribution(GKE, AWS, Azure). By combining [Axiom](ht
How to Analyze Logstash logs on Axiom.
[Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/index.html) is a free and open server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite “stash.” **stash here is Axiom.** In this post, I will show you how to st
Monitor DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service with Axiom
DigitalOcean Kubernetes is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy clusters. Discover how Axiom can help you monitor event logs effectively.
Ingress Log Data from Azure Kubernetes Service to Axiom
In this tutorial, I will show you how to ingress your logs from Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to Axiom. You will be able to stream and analyze your logs. We’ll set up an AKS deployment from scratch and configure it to log directly to Axiom. If you already have a Microsoft AKS deployment
Working with Aggregations
In this article, I will show you how to use Aggregations with queries on [Axiom.](https://www.axiom.co/) ## What are Aggregations? Aggregations a way of grouping and extracting statistics/insights from your data. They run on data you have ingested into Axiom, such as events from log files, events
Working with Dashboards in Axiom
**In this post, I will walk you through creating and using dashboards in Axiom to easily visualize, monitor, and share your data.**  ## Prerequisites For this tutorial, you will need: - Access to [Axiom](https://app.axiom.co/
Introducing the Axiom CLI
**We’re excited to announce the release of Axiom CLI, and we want to highlight some of its awesome features in this post!**  The Axiom team have been working really hard on the first version of the [Axiom CLI](https://github.com/axiomhq/cli), a po
Remote Collaboration tips: microphone
Here at Axiom, we are a 100% remote company, we cover ten timezones and have had to find a way of making collaboration work for us. We have found that a mix of voice/video calls for high-bandwidth communication and text messaging for lower bandwidth has worked wonderfully. However, when transition
Axiom ❤️ Lets Encrypt
**We’re pleased to announce that Axiom is a silver sponsor of Let’s Encrypt, the internet’s free, automated, and open Certificate Authority.** At Axiom, we are huge fans of Let’s Encrypt and the great work they do. Without LetsEncrypt, we wouldn't be able to provide a seamlessly safe and secure pr
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