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Long-Term Log Storage Without SIEM Costs: The Axoflow Storage Layer
Store security logs long-term without SIEM costs or vendor lock-in. See how the Axoflow Storage Layer uses open Parquet files on object storage you control.


The Data Floor Sets the AI Ceiling
AI SOC performance is capped by telemetry quality. Learn why vendor-owned normalization, not brittle rule maintenance, sets your AI ceiling.


10x search improvement? Optimize Splunk fields with Axoflow
Indexed fields can make Splunk searches up to 10x faster. See how Axoflow sends payload- and externally-derived metadata to Splunk efficiently.
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Why Use OpenTelemetry gRPC for Log Data Transport
Why switch log transport to OpenTelemetry gRPC? Compare efficiency, reliability, and scale against syslog and HTTP — and when gRPC is the right call.


What is Syslog? The Complete Beginner’s Guide (2026)
Learn what syslog is, how it works, and why it remains the backbone of modern logging. Use cases, benefits, and limitations for beginners.


Comprehensive Guide to Syslog (2026)
The starting point of our comprehensive syslog guide, that starts from the basics and covers every aspect of syslog collection, transport, and scaling


If You Own the Pipeline, You Own the Future of the SOC
Security data pipelines are becoming the SOC's control plane. Key report findings on cost efficiency, data quality, and faster investigations.


Beyond Cutting Cost: Why Data Quality Makes Security Pipelines Strategic
Anton Chuvakin and Tim Peacock interview Balázs Scheidler on why data quality, not just cost cutting, makes security data pipelines strategic.


Top 15 Cybersecurity Voices who Actually Give A Damn
The top 15 cybersecurity voices who actually give a damn: practitioners, thinkers, and builders shaping security. No buzzwords, no vendor hype.


Cutting Storage Costs and Boosting Visibility: How a Leading Healthcare Company Reduced Log Storage Costs by 30% with Axoflow
Learn how a leading U.S. healthcare company used Axoflow to gain log observability, improve syslog-ng monitoring, and cut data costs by 30% in days.


Axoflow’s Storage Strategy: Building the Security Data Layer
Axoflow's storage strategy for the Security Data Layer: edge storage, cost-efficient data lakes, stream processing, and air-gapped deployments.


Splunk .conf25 - The Role of the Pipeline
Splunk .conf25 takeaways: why every SecOps conversation kept coming back to the security data pipeline, and what that means for your SOC.
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