Features

Comprehensive overview of Axiom’s components, features, and capabilities across the platform.

Component	Sub-Component	Feature	Description
Data Platform	Deployment	Axiom Cloud	Axiom hosts and manages all infrastructure in its own cloud.
EventDB	-	-	Foundation of Axiom’s platform for ingesting, storing, and querying timestamped event data at scale.
EventDB	Ingest	-	Ingest pipeline that’s coordination-free, durable by default, and scales linearly without requiring Kafka or other heavy middleware.
EventDB	Storage	-	Custom block-based format on object storage, with extreme compression (average 25×, up to 50× for more structured events) and efficient metadata.
EventDB	Query	-	Serverless ephemeral runtimes that spin up on demand to process queries, powered by the Axiom Processing Language (APL).
EventDB	Query	Axiom Processing Language (APL)	Powerful query language for logs and traces, supporting filtering, aggregations, transformations, and specialized operators.
EventDB	Query	Virtual fields	Ability to derive new values from data in real-time during queries without pre-structuring or transforming data during ingestion.
MetricsDB	-	-	Dedicated metrics datastore purpose-built for high-cardinality time-series data without the cost penalties of traditional metrics systems.
MetricsDB	Ingest	OpenTelemetry Metrics	Native support for OpenTelemetry (gRPC over HTTP) metrics protocol.
MetricsDB	Storage	High-cardinality native	Store metrics with high-cardinality tags without performance degradation.
MetricsDB	Query	Metrics Processing Language (MPL)	Query metrics using Metrics Processing Language (MPL) with support for time-series aggregations, dimensional filtering, and cross-metric correlations.
Console	-	-	Web UI for data management, querying, dashboarding, monitoring, and user administration.
Console	Query	Builder	Guided interface to quickly filter and group data.
Console	Query	Editor	A full text-based query language environment for complex aggregations, transformations, and correlations.
Console	Query	Natural-language querying	Generate valid APL queries from plain English descriptions using AI.
Console	Query	Visualizations	Charts, graphs, and other visual components to make sense of query results.
Console	Query	Trace waterfall	Dedicated interface for analyzing distributed traces.
Console	Query	Saved queries	Save and share queries with team members for easy reuse.
Console	Query	Views	Apply filters and transformations to datasets to create reusable virtual tables with scoped access control.
Console	Stream	Live tailing	Real-time streaming view of incoming logs and events.
Console	Dashboards	-	Combine multiple visual elements (charts, tables, logs, etc.) onto a single page.
Console	Dashboards	AI-powered dashboard generation	Describe requirements in natural language and generate complete dashboards instantly.
Console	Dashboards	Elements	Various chart types, log streams, notes, and more to tailor each dashboard.
Console	Dashboards	Annotations	Mark points in time or highlight events directly in your dashboards.
Console	Monitors	Threshold monitors	Checks if aggregated values exceed or fall below a predefined threshold (for example, error counts > 100).
Console	Monitors	Match monitors	Triggers on specific log patterns or conditions for each event.
Console	Monitors	Anomaly monitors	Learns from historical data to detect unexpected deviations or spikes.
Console	Alerting	Notifiers (Webhooks, Email, Slack, and more)	Sends notifications through various channels including email, chat platforms, incident management systems, and custom webhook integrations.
Console	Governance	Dataset management	Data retention controls, trim functionality, field vacuuming, and dataset sharing capabilities.
Console	Governance	Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)	Fine-grained permissions at the organization and dataset levels.
Console	Governance	Audit logs	Track every change and action taken by users within Axiom.
Intelligence	-	-	AI-powered features that accelerate insights and automate data analysis.
Intelligence	Analysis	Spotlight	Automatically identify differences between selected events and baseline data for root cause analysis and anomaly investigation. Quickly understand key differences with AI-generated summaries.
Intelligence	Agent integration	MCP Server	Model Context Protocol server enabling AI agents to query data, list datasets, and access monitors using APL.
Intelligence	LLM observability	GenAI dashboard and traces	Auto-provisioned GenAI dashboard and waterfall trace view for any dataset containing AI telemetry. Instrument using OpenTelemetry or the Axiom AI SDK.
Integrations	-	-	A wide range of official and community tools to collect logs, metrics, and traces and send them into Axiom.
Integrations	Popular connectors	OpenTelemetry, Vector, Cribl, and more	Common shippers and pipeline tools for bridging data sources to Axiom.
Integrations	AWS	CloudWatch Forwarder, Lambda Extension, Kinesis, S3	Official AWS-based ingestion solutions.
Integrations	Language libraries	Go, Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby, Rust, .NET	SDKs to send logs and metrics directly from applications.
APIs and CLI	-	-	Programmatic and command-line interfaces for ingesting, querying, and managing Axiom resources.
APIs and CLI	REST API	Endpoints	Programmatic interfaces for ingesting data, running queries, retrieving results, and managing annotations and tokens.
APIs and CLI	REST API	API tokens and Personal Access Tokens	Authentication mechanisms for API access with basic and advanced tokens, plus personal tokens.
APIs and CLI	CLI	Auth and dataset management	Create datasets, set tokens, or update config from a shell.
APIs and CLI	CLI	Query from terminal	Execute queries in APL or simpler filters directly in a command-line session.
APIs and CLI	Terraform Provider	-	Terraform provider for programmatically creating and managing Axiom resources including datasets, notifiers, monitors, and users.
Security and Compliance	-	-	Axiom’s data protection measures and compliance with major privacy/security frameworks.
Security and Compliance	Compliance	SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA	Meets industry standards for data handling and privacy.

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