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Monitoring AWS Lambda with Axiom
AWS Lambda is a compute service that allows you to build applications and run your code at scale without provisioning or maintaining any servers. Serverless is becoming more popular, and the number of applications using Serverless running on AWS Lambda is growing rapidly fast, and monitoring your Se
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Get Deep Visibility into CloudFront Logs with Axiom
AWS CloudFront is a globally distributed network offered by Amazon Web Services, which securely transfers content, such as software, SDKs, and videos, to clients with high transfer speed. To ensure you run workloads properly, organizations need deep visibility into the health and performance of the
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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 A few weeks ago,
July 4, 2022
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 Axiom! Ver
June 1, 2022
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 cancel querie
May 12, 2022
Vercel Integration
Axiom can now connect with Vercel to provide the best logging platform for Vercel apps! Axiom's Vercel integration enables you to monitor the health and performance of your Vercel deployments by ingesting all your request, function, and web vitals data. We’ve crafted our integration with develope
April 26, 2022
Make Your Logstash Pipeline More Powerful with Axiom
For you to maintain the health, visibility, and performance of your applications, you need to monitor Elasticsearch logstash configuration between all of your application's dependencies and events. Logstash pipeline is a centralized data processing config pipeline that lets you read data from var
March 14, 2022
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 timestamp icon on \_t
March 4, 2022
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 collect me
January 20, 2022
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 analytics into your Git
December 2, 2021
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 CLI
November 30, 2021
Monitor and Analyze Your Heroku Applications with Axiom
Heroku is a platform as a service that lets developers build and operate cloud-based applications. Using Heroku log drains, you can transport logs, metrics, api logs, and service app logs from your applications and deployments to Axiom by sending them via HTTPS. Heroku app is a cloud config service
November 16, 2021
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 Explorer. The newly
November 1, 2021
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 d
October 27, 2021
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 alerts from P
October 4, 2021
Introducing Axiom Playground
We are excited to announce Axiom Playground, 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. Stream: A Papertrail-like streaming logs view. Explorer: An
September 30, 2021
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,
September 20, 2021
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 an
August 10, 2021
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 wi
August 2, 2021
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 to
July 14, 2021
Use Axiom and MetricBeat to better understand system performance
Working with Metricbeat and Axiom enables you to collect metrics and create extensive elasticsearch dashboards from different sources, like Apache, Nginx, Xpack, elastic stack, and elasticsearch, into Axiom. With our Metricbeat dashboard experience, you can get a comprehensive breakdown of how your
July 8, 2021
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 this g
July 1, 2021
Use Axiom and Redis for better performance monitoring
Staying on top of your Redis metrics and redis performance latency can be a great way to find Redis metrics errors, hashes, redis performance, pub/sub data, metrics events, total number of Redis performance logs between your RDB Redis integrations, Redis database, Redis cluster, and Redis deployment
June 24, 2021
Getting Sophisticated alerts from Filebeat on Axiom
Configuring alerts on your Elastic search Filebeat events is essential because it’s how you catch issues with your Logstash and Kibana systems immediately. Your organization will know when critical Filebeat functionality changes from elastic stack are occurring, and with this information, you can th
June 3, 2021
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 is a lightweight daemon that you install on your local machine or remote server to frequently check the status of your services and determ
June 1, 2021
Monitoring Rancher with Axiom
Rancher 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 with Rancher, you can monitor
May 18, 2021
How to Analyze Logstash logs on Axiom.
Logstash 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 stream and run aggregations on Logstash logs. Prerequisites Axiom da
May 11, 2021
Monitor DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service with Axiom
What is DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service? Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration platform to run containers at scale. DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy Kubernetes clusters without the complexities of handling the control plane and containerized i
May 6, 2021
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
April 20, 2021
Working with Aggregations
In this article, I will show you how to use Aggregations with queries on Axiom. 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, metrics, or any other form
April 8, 2021
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. Dashboard Prerequisites For this tutorial, you will need: Access to Axiom One or more datasets with log data ingested into Axiom. When to Use Dashboards Dashboards c
March 25, 2021
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! cli The Axiom team have been working really hard on the first version of the Axiom CLI, a powerful way to use Axiom directly from the comfort of your terminal. Here are some of
March 18, 2021
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 transitioni
