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April 26, 2024

Introducing Axiom Terraform Provider

Check out Axiom Terraform Provider to provision and manage Axiom resources such as datasets and monitors with Terraform.

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April 2, 2024

Feature Recap

A look back on what’s new and noteworthy in Axiom over the last few months including a new fields sidebar, span duration histogram for distributed traces, and a Microsoft Teams notifier.

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March 5, 2024

KubeCon Paris 2024: Drinks, chats, logs and traces with Axiom

KubeCon is almost here. Axiom will be there. Come talk to us about how we’re reinventing logs, traces, and metrics—and how your organization may benefit from our cloud-native approach to observability.

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February 16, 2024

Axiom secures ISO 27001 certification

We’ve met the rigorous international standard to ensure the protection of our customers’ most sensitive information.

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February 9, 2024

Freedom from limits

Every product we tried had built-in limits. We designed Axiom from the ground up not to have them.

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January 26, 2024

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.

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January 24, 2024

Bring Your Own Bucket: A look under the hood

Enterprise customers don’t have to choose between data locality and Axiom’s full benefits.

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January 23, 2024

Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story

From insight to implementation of adaptive time compression in Axiom's columnar database.

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January 19, 2024

Introducing BYOB: Bring Your Own Bucket

Reap all the benefits of Axiom while keeping your data on your own AWS S3.

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January 16, 2024

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.

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December 15, 2023

2023 was a big year for Axiom. 2024 will be even bigger.

New features. New customers. New hires. Big events. A recap of our past year, and a look at what’s coming next.

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December 12, 2023

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.

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November 29, 2023

OTel semantic conventions deep dive

Semantic conventions are an emerging standard for key/value pairs in telemetry data for correlation and consistency across signals and languages.

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November 21, 2023

Join us at re:Invent!

Come to booth 1503 to talk about logs, traces, metrics, and all your event data.

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November 14, 2023

The Right To Be Forgotten vs Audit Trail Mandates: A Tech-Law Expert’s Guidance for Log Management

How do you reconcile regulations that require personal data to be deleted on demand with other mandates to preserve specific data for auditors?

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October 20, 2023

Join us at KubeCon!

KubeCon is almost here. Axiom will be there. Come talk to us about how we’re reinventing logs, traces, and metrics—and how your organization may benefit from our cloud-native approach to observability.

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October 12, 2023

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.

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September 26, 2023

It’s time to stop self-managing your log infrastructure

The costs and hassles of self-managed logging make no sense today, whether on-prem or in the cloud..

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September 19, 2023

Traces are just logs — unify your approach for deeper insights

Axiom lets you treat traces and logs as one, offering much greater agility to observe, troubleshoot and optimize your applications.

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September 1, 2023

Introducing the Axiom Cloudflare Logpush app

We are delighted to introduce our Cloudflare Logpush app to visualize your HTTP and DNS logs in a ready-made, powerful Axiom dashboard.

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August 29, 2023

Introducing New Chart Types for Advanced Logging and Observability in Axiom

We are thrilled to introduce new chart types, enhancing your visualization and analysis experience within Axiom.

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August 4, 2023

Axiom Completes SOC 2 Type II Audit

We are proud to announce that Axiom has completed the SOC 2 Type II Audit! This is a significant milestone for us and demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of our customers data.

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July 13, 2023

Top 5 Takeaways from Monitorama 2023

Two weeks ago Axiom headed to Portland, Oregon as a sponsor of Monitorama — a popular conference for monitoring and observability practitioners now in its 10th year.

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June 29, 2023

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.

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June 26, 2023

Datadog Migration app: go live with Axiom in 5 minutes

Replicate your logging and dashboards on Axiom in minutes from your existing Datadog configuration, as Axiom guides you step by step.

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June 26, 2023

Distributed Tracing adds visual instrumentation for microservices

Trace all events across your infrastructure in a simple, friendly UI.

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June 16, 2023

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.

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June 12, 2023

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.

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May 17, 2023

Cheerio Slack. Hey Discord!

We switched our community from Slack to Discord. It went better than we expected!

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April 13, 2023

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.

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April 4, 2023

How We Made the Axiom Vercel Integration Even Better

A look at the recent improvements to the Axiom Vercel integration.

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March 30, 2023

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

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March 29, 2023

Axiom Completes SOC 2 Type I Audit

We are proud to announce that Axiom has achieved SOC 2 compliance! This is a significant milestone for us and demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of our customers data.

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March 13, 2023

A New Look for Axiom

Today, we’re excited to launch a refreshed look and feel for Axiom, providing the foundation for powerful new features through a design system that will allow our team to build, iterate and ship more quickly.

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March 1, 2023

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.

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October 20, 2022

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.

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July 14, 2022

Saying Hello to Lila!

### **Tell us a little about yourself: Where are you from? Hobbies?** I was born in Belarus. My mom is Belarusian, and my dad is Indian. From childhood I have experienced both of the cultures, and I should say it was fun! ![1.jpeg](/assets/saying-hello-lila/1.jpeg) I moved a lot and lived in 4 d

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July 4, 2022

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

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June 23, 2022

Advanced Observability for Vercel

Last month, we announced the [Axiom Vercel Integration](https://vercel.com/integrations/axiom), providing Vercel users with an in-depth observability experience for their projects and deployments. Today we’re expanding that experience to include a brand new dashboard, full-stack observability of Ne

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June 1, 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 Axi

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May 12, 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 c

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April 26, 2022

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

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March 14, 2022

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

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March 4, 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 times

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January 20, 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 colle

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December 2, 2021

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

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November 30, 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 CL

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November 16, 2021

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.

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November 1, 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 Explore

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October 27, 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

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October 4, 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 ale

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September 30, 2021

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

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September 20, 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

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August 10, 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 a

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August 2, 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 w

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July 14, 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

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July 8, 2021

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

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July 1, 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 thi

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June 24, 2021

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.

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June 3, 2021

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.

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June 1, 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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/index.html) is a lightweight daemon that you install on your local machine

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May 25, 2021

Saying Hello to Lukas!

This week we’re chatting with Lukas! Lukas is a software engineer who has been working part-time while finishing his credentials at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences ## Tell us a little about yourself: Where are you from? Hobbies? I was born and raised in a small v

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May 18, 2021

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

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May 11, 2021

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

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May 6, 2021

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.

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April 26, 2021

Getting to know Ted!

We’re kicking off our employee spotlight, chatting with Ted Gould. Ted is an engineer here at Axiom and was our first employee. ## How did you find out about Axiom? The previous project I was working on was coming to an end, and so I was looking for opportunities. As part of that, I reached out t

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April 20, 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

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April 8, 2021

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

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March 31, 2021

How we played Werewolf via Slack and Discord 🐺

Awoooooo! Can you hear the werewolves howling from a distance? The town of Axiom has been struck again. Tensions amongst the citizens have never been higher. The town has been the target of many werewolf attacks over the last few nights. Who might these werewolves be? The mystery still remains… If

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March 25, 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](/assets/Working-with-Dashboards-in-Axiom/dashboard1.jpeg) ## Prerequisites For this tutorial, you will need: - Access to [Axiom](https://app.axiom.co/

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March 18, 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](/assets/Introducing-the-Axiom-CLI/cli1.gif) The Axiom team have been working really hard on the first version of the [Axiom CLI](https://github.com/axiomhq/cli), a po

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June 10, 2020

Axiom Raises $7M to Cure Data Headaches

Axiom was built to help dev-ops team gain control of their data. Simple to deploy, simple to manage, and incredibly efficient. Axiom is here to solve your data problems. Today we’re excited to announce that Axiom has raised $7M from [Crane Ventures](https://crane.vc/), [Fly Ventures](https://www.f

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June 8, 2020

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

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March 12, 2020

Working Better While Working Apart

Being a fully remote (and global!) growing startup has its challenges. One of the biggest challenges is building a team culture we can be proud of and getting every individual on our team working together in a friendly and productive way. ![Amsterdam](/assets/Working-Better-While-Working-Apart/ams

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