Axiom
Axiom provides scalable log and event analytics with real-time querying and visualization for observability and monitoring. · Axiom · Observability
Overview
Axiom's free Personal plan offers 500GB/month data loading compute, 10 GB-hours query compute, and 25GB storage, ideal for individual developers and small projects.
Good fit
Use Axiom for aggregating and analyzing logs or events from apps or infrastructure with fast search and visualization needs.
- log analytics
- real-time monitoring
- small teams
- side projects
Not a fit
Avoid if you need more than 30-day retention, SSO/RBAC, or expect to exceed the free compute and storage allowance regularly.
- need long-term retention
- require enterprise features
- expect high event volume
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign up for a free Axiom account.
- Create a new dataset for your logs.
- Install and configure an Axiom ingestion agent or use API to send logs.
- Verify data is arriving in your dataset.
- Build queries and dashboards to visualize your data.
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