monitoring
Axiom
Observability for logs, traces, events — serverless-first, infinite scale
Structured log + trace + event observability. Built for serverless/edge (Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS Lambda). APL query language (Kusto-inspired). Free 500 GB/month ingest.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Personal (Free) | Free | No credit card. 500 GB/month ingest, 10 GB-hr compute, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention max. |
| Axiom Cloud | $25/mo | $25/month minimum platform fee. Volume-based ingest + query credits. Always-free allowances: 1 TB/mo ingest, 100 GB-hr queries, 100 GB storage. |
| RBAC Add-on | $50/mo | +$50/month for role-based access control. |
| Audit Logs Add-on | $50/mo | +$50/month for audit logs. |
| Directory Sync Add-on | $100/mo | +$100/month for SCIM. |
| SSO Add-on | $100/mo | +$100/month for SAML SSO. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Dedicated cluster option, private connectivity, SLA. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | ingest compression | ~10x typical (JSON → compressed) | Storage efficiency |
| — | no contracts | pay-as-you-go, cancel anytime | Billing terms |
| — | query language | APL (Kusto-inspired) | Query language |
| cloud | free ingest gb month | 1024 GB/month | Cloud — free ingest allowance |
| cloud | free query gb hr | 100 GB-hr/month | Cloud — free query compute |
| cloud | free storage gb | 100 GB | Cloud — free storage |
| cloud | ingest rate | 0.06-0.12 credits/GB (volume-based) | Cloud — ingest pricing |
| cloud | platform fee min | 25 USD/month | Cloud — platform minimum |
| cloud | query rate | 0.08-0.2 credits/GB-hr (volume-based) | Cloud — query pricing |
| cloud | storage rate | $0.030/GB/month (compressed) | Cloud — storage |
| personal | ingest gb month | 500 GB/month | Free — monthly ingest |
| personal | query compute gb hr | 10 GB-hr/month | Free — query compute |
| personal | retention max days | 30 days | Free — retention max |
| personal | storage gb | 25 GB | Free — storage |
Features
- API Tokens — Scoped tokens for ingest or query.
- APL (query language) — Axiom Processing Language — Kusto-inspired pipes (`|`). Fast + expressive. · docs
- AWS Lambda Extension — Native extension to ship Lambda logs + traces.
- Cloudflare Integration — Workers + Pages log drain. Log pull from any Cloudflare zone.
- Dashboards — Visualizations from APL queries: line/bar/pie/heatmap/table.
- Datasets — Logical partitions of data. Schema-free; fields auto-indexed.
- Elastic Bulk API compat — Elasticsearch Bulk API endpoint — drop-in replacement.
- Field Explorer — Auto-detected field stats, histograms, top-values per dataset.
- Monitors (alerts) — Threshold + anomaly-based alerting on APL queries. Route to Slack/PagerDuty/email/webhooks. · docs
- next-axiom — Next.js logger with automatic correlation + Web Vitals capture.
- OpenTelemetry-native — Ingest OTLP/HTTP + gRPC. No proprietary agent.
- Saved Queries — Save + share APL queries as starters.
- Stream (live tail) — Live tail of incoming events with filter bar. · docs
- Traces — OpenTelemetry-native. Distributed tracing across services. · docs
- Vercel Integration — One-click: Vercel logs + Web Vitals → Axiom. · docs
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| cli | Axiom CLI | cli | 0.x |
| sdk-go | axiom-go | sdk | 0.x |
| sdk-node | @axiomhq/js | sdk | 1.x |
| mcp | Axiom MCP | mcp | — |
| sdk-python | axiom-py | sdk | 0.x |
| rest-api | Axiom REST API | rest | v1 |
| sdk-rust | axiom-rs | sdk | 0.x |
| ingest-http | Ingest HTTP endpoint | rest | — |
| sdk-nextjs | next-axiom | sdk | 1.x |
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