Axiom

Axiom is a centralized logging and monitoring platform designed to simplify application and system-level observability. It was trialed as a solution for all-purpose logging and monitoring, complementing other tools like Sentry, which focuses on frontend error logging.

Previous Benefits of Axiom

• All-Purpose Logging: Provided robust capabilities for both application and system-level logging in a centralized platform.
• Ease of Use: Offered a user-friendly interface and flexible querying capabilities, making it accessible for developers and operations teams.
• Comprehensive Monitoring: Addressed a wide range of use cases, including real-time monitoring, long-term log retention, and advanced analytics.

Reasons for Holding

• Established Alternatives: Tools like Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana provide more mature and widely adopted solutions for logging and monitoring.
• Standardization Goals: We are focusing on standardizing observability tools with providers that offer comprehensive ecosystems and better integration capabilities.
• Feature Overlap: While Axiom held promise, its feature set overlaps with more established tools, which already fulfill our monitoring and logging requirements.

Current Stance at INFO

Axiom has been placed on hold as we prioritize Sentry for frontend error logging and Datadog or Grafana for broader monitoring and observability needs. These tools align better with our long-term goals, offer extensive community support, and provide a more unified approach to monitoring and logging across our systems. Existing setups with Axiom will be maintained, but future observability projects will utilize these established alternatives.

In the space of centralized all-purpose logging and monitoring we are trialling Axiom.

In this same space we do also use Sentry. However Sentry is focused on frontend error logging, while tools such as Axiom fit the need for all-purpose (application and system) logging.

There are many other players in this field, some of which we have used or trialled inclusing Logtail and Datadog but for us Axiom holds the best cards for our needs. We have also found that the centralized logging solution offered by AWS is too cumbersome to use and does not offer the same range of features that tools like Axiom do.