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Axiom
Company blog · axiom.co/blog · on HN as njpatelprogrammingdata
Axiom is the company blog at axiom.co, writing about programming and data. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Show HN: Axiom Log Management and Analytics”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments link Axiom's pages as a logging and observability service, mentioning its free plan, pricing and high-scale use. The linked pages are product pages, not writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The modern machine data platform — Petabyte-scale, schema-less ingest on a fully managed event store, so you keep every byte without the operational cost of running it yourself.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-10
- Show HN: Axiom Log Management and Analytics3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-28
- Cheerio Slack. Hey Discord2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-17
What Hacker News says?
https://axiom.co/
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on “Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret”Submitted Request logging and web vitals for Vercel apps as a story · 96 points
HN discussionAxiom | Senior Design Engineer | REMOTE (UTC-5 to UTC+1) | Full-time Axiom ( https://axiom.co ) is used by thousands of great companies like Asana and Framer for logging and observability. Our underlying tech is best-in-class, but we have a much higher ambition for the craft and quality of our user experience. We’re looking for a brilliant design engineer who cares deeply about UI craft. You’ll be a critical bridge…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)”Submitted Haydex: From Zero to 178.6B rows a second in 30 days as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI've heard good things about Axiom[0], especially for high scale needs. 0: https://axiom.co/
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on “Show HN: A Better Log Service”Submitted Adaptive _time compression – A database hacker story as a story · 31 points
HN discussion> The solution goes - Splunk is too expensive, let's ditch logs altogether and hope we capture some metrics and plot them in nice dashboards. Instead of dumping the logs highly compressed into cheap s3 and running some Snowflake or Spark on it later. I don't usually promote on HN but this is exactly why we built https://axiom.co ! We've been working on this problem for some time, essentially allowing schema-less/ind…
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on “Observability is not only for SREs”Submitted Advanced Observability for Vercel/Next.js (Web Vitals FTW) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIf your app is instrumented with OpenTelemetry, I'd really recommend something like SigNoz ( https://signoz.io/ ) or Axum ( https://axiom.co/ ) (or even https://baselime.io but their application is a mess to work with) 1. Axiom has a generous free plan (not sure if it's self-hostable) 2. SigNoz has an easy to work with self-hosting setup but also cloud solution. If it's just logging, you can still forward your logs…
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on “Ask HN: Hosting on Digital Ocean, any advice for monitoring and deployments?”Submitted Designing MCP servers for wide schemas and large result sets as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWe are familiar with honeycomb and we also have a honeycomb->axiom multiplexer, so you can use their great tools, to forward to use and compare side by side. https://github.com/axiomhq/axiom-honeycomb-proxy It's called proxy but its actually a multiplexer ;) Some things where we are different: * We don't sample if you push to us directly. * Our pricing is different ( https://www.axiom.co/pricing#calculator ) * We ar…
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on “Show HN: Scuba-like observability for non-Facebook engineers”Submitted You’ve got 99 problems, logging shouldn’t be one as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted From burden to asset: reimagining logs at scale (2024) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Axiom Log Management and Analytics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Axiom introduces metrics: High-cardinality without the cost as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Events, Logging, and Compliance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cheerio Slack. Hey Discord as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Look for Axiom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Look for Axiom: with interactive illustrations, micro-interactions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sortable interface: Teaching every column type to sort itself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freedom from Limits (For Logging) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving a Community from Slack to Discord as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Collaboration Tips: Microphone as a story · 1 points
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