September 2021 Summaries

Axiom Playground is a newly introduced demo environment that allows users to explore Axiom’s data analytics platform with real-time data. It offers three interactive views: Datasets, which acts as a query builder for simple analytics; Stream, which provides a streaming logs interface similar to Papertrail; and Explorer, for advanced data analysis. Users can perform aggregations across datasets, inspect live events as they are ingested, and execute high-performance queries using the Data Explorer, all of which facilitate direct insight into data. The platform is accessible at play.axiom.co, and additional resources, including documentation and tutorials, are available for users seeking further assistance.

The tutorial by Tola Ore-Aruwaji, a Developer Relations Engineer, provides a detailed guide on enhancing monitoring capabilities by integrating Axiom with PagerDuty. It emphasizes the importance of visibility into digital operations and offers a step-by-step process to set up PagerDuty monitors and notifiers, which enable real-time incident management and alerts. The tutorial explains how to configure queries and thresholds to trigger alerts, and it describes the use of different notification methods such as email and Slack to inform teams about issues. The integration aims to improve the availability and performance of DevOps applications by offering insights into backend and workload activities, ultimately helping organizations address incident management challenges efficiently.