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Platform overview

What is Axiom?

Axiom is a data platform designed to efficiently collect, store, and analyze event and telemetry data at massive scale. At its core, Axiom combines a high-performance, proprietary data store with an intelligent Console, helping teams reach actionable insights from their data faster.

Trusted by 30,000+ organizations, from high-growth startups to global enterprises.

Components

Axiom consists of two purpose-built data stores supported by a unified console experience:

EventDB

Robust, cost-effective, and scalable datastore specifically optimized for timestamped event data. Built from the ground up to handle the vast volumes and high velocity of event ingestion, EventDB ensures:

  • Scalable data loading: Events are ingested seamlessly without complex middleware, scaling linearly with no single points of failure.
  • Extreme compression: Tuned storage format compresses data 25-50x, significantly reducing storage costs and ensuring data remains queryable at any time.
  • Serverless querying: Axiom spins up ephemeral, serverless runtimes on-demand to execute queries efficiently, minimizing idle compute resources and costs.

MetricsDB

Dedicated metrics datastore engineered specifically for high-cardinality time-series data. Unlike traditional metrics solutions that penalize you for dimensional complexity, MetricsDB embraces high-cardinality tags as a design principle:

  • High-cardinality native: Store metrics with high-cardinality dimensional tags without performance degradation or cost penalties.
  • Optimized storage: Purpose-built storage format designed for time-series workloads delivers efficient compression and fast aggregations across millions of unique tag combinations.
  • Thoughtful constraints: Design choices prioritize the most common metrics use cases while maintaining exceptional performance.

For more information, see Axiom’s architecture.

Console

Intuitive web app built for exploration, visualization, and monitoring of your data.

  • Real-time exploration: Effortlessly query and visualize data streams in real-time, providing instant clarity on operational and business conditions.
  • Dynamic visualizations: Generate insightful visualizations, from straightforward counts to sophisticated aggregations, tailored specifically to your needs.
  • Robust monitoring: Set up threshold-based and anomaly driven alerts, ensuring proactive visibility into potential issues.

Why choose Axiom?

  • Cost-efficiency: Axiom dramatically lowers data ingestion and storage costs compared to traditional observability and logging solutions.
  • Flexible insights: Real-time query capabilities and an increasingly intelligent UI help pinpoint issues and opportunities without sampling.
  • One platform, many use cases: Use Axiom for observability (logs, metrics, traces), LLM observability, product analytics, and any other machine data workload.

Getting started

  • Learn more about Axiom’s features.
  • Explore the interactive demo playground.
  • Create your own organization.
  • Building with AI agents? Agents can provision their own temporary organization with a single API request.
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