Axiom Cost Control

Dashboards, monitors, and waste identification for Axiom usage optimization.

Before You Start

1. Load required skills:

   skill: axiom-sre
   skill: building-dashboards
   

   Building-dashboards provides: dashboard-list, dashboard-get, dashboard-create, dashboard-update, dashboard-delete

2. Find the audit dataset. Try axiom-audit first:

   ['axiom-audit']
   | where _time > ago(1h)
   | summarize count() by action
   | where action in ('usageCalculated', 'runAPLQueryCost')
   

   • If not found → ask user. Common names: axiom-audit-logs-view, audit-logs
   • If found but no usageCalculated events → wrong dataset, ask user

3. Verify axiom-history access (required for Phase 4):

   ['axiom-history'] | where _time > ago(1h) | take 1
   

   If not found, Phase 4 optimization will not work.

4. Confirm with user:

   • Deployment name?
   • Audit dataset name?
   • Contract limit in TB/day? (required for Phase 3 monitors)

5. Replace <deployment> and <audit-dataset> in all commands below.

Tips:

• Run any script with -h for full usage
• Do NOT pipe script output to head or tail, causes SIGPIPE errors
• Requires jq for JSON parsing
• Use axiom-sre's axiom-query for ad-hoc APL, not direct CLI

Which Phases to Run

User request	Run these phases
"reduce costs" / "find waste"	0 → 1 → 4
"set up cost control"	0 → 1 → 2 → 3
"deploy dashboard"	0 → 2
"create monitors"	0 → 3
"check for drift"	0 only

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Phase 0: Check Existing Setup

# Existing dashboard?
dashboard-list <deployment> | grep -i cost

# Existing monitors?
axiom-api <deployment> GET "/v2/monitors" | jq -r '.[] | select(.name | startswith("Cost Control:")) | "\(.id)\t\(.name)"'

If found, fetch with dashboard-get and compare to templates/dashboard.json for drift.

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Phase 1: Discovery