September 2023 Summaries

The evolution of event data and logging infrastructure has highlighted the inefficiencies of traditional self-managed systems, prompting a shift towards cloud-native solutions like Axiom. Axiom is designed to efficiently handle the growing volume and complexity of event data by leveraging modern cloud technologies, such as serverless execution and optimized storage. Unlike legacy systems, which often incur high costs and require significant manual management, Axiom offers a more streamlined approach with automated resource management, reducing both financial and environmental impacts. It supports both structured and unstructured data, allowing for flexible querying with minimal resource usage. Axiom's architecture is built to be truly cloud-native, addressing the challenges faced by earlier cloud-based and on-premises systems, and it offers competitive pricing with no hidden fees, appealing to organizations seeking efficient and sustainable event data management solutions.

Tracing, often seen as a modern approach to understanding application behavior, is closely related to the traditional method of logging, as both aim to capture events detailing an application's journey. By integrating traces into existing logging infrastructures, developers can leverage the power of Axiom Processing Language (APL) to query, filter, and transform trace data similarly to log data. This integration allows for enhanced insights into application performance and health, enabling dynamic filtering of spans, operations, and requests, and facilitating the extraction of valuable data from span attributes at query time without altering the original data format. Axiom supports the capture and transformation of OpenTelemetry data, ensuring raw data fidelity and compatibility with emerging standards, with pricing starting at $25 per month and free options for personal projects.

Arne Bahlo, a team lead, announces the release of a new application that facilitates the transfer of Cloudflare logs to Axiom via Cloudflare Logpush. This app creates an Axiom dataset to receive all logs sent from Cloudflare and includes a dashboard to monitor website performance, allowing users to identify issues early by displaying key HTTP and DNS metrics. Axiom supports a variety of datasets, including zone-scoped and account-scoped logs such as HTTP requests, DNS logs, and Worker Trace Events. Users can filter data by Cloudflare account or zone using smart filters or query data using APL for deeper analysis. The app, which requires a Cloudflare Enterprise plan, is available for installation through Axiom apps, and users can access further support through documentation and a Discord community.