Hosted event store for logs, traces and other event data, queried with the APL language, with dashboards and monitors. Integrates with Vercel, Cloudflare and OpenTelemetry.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Free plan
- 500 GB/mo ingest, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Website
- axiom.co
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Log management checklist
10 of 10 confirmed in Axiom's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Logs.
- Full-text search Yes
- Structured log parsing Yes
- OTLP logs ingest Yes
- Log alerts Yes
- Live tail Yes
- Metrics from logs Yes
- Archive or tiered retention Yes
- Dashboards Yes
- Query language Yes
- Access control Yes
Checked against: axiom.co, axiom.co (2), axiom.co (3), axiom.co (4), axiom.co (5)
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