Slightly off-topic but Vercel's docs are really awesome these days. Good job Leerob and co. it has all come a long way in only a few short years. Not much left for me to bitch about ;)
Also feel free to join our slack for more feedback :D
Our goal is to provide some out-of-the-box alerting tuned to Vercel deployments as we learn more about how devs are using Axiom & Vercel!
Couldn't be simpler. Team's great too. Highly recommend
We use Axiom at Prisma for various things and love it. Happy to answer questions if anybody is interested. Either here or on email.
It's a fair point, though...at some point, and with enough TBs of traffic, it could get expensive to provide the log drain support. One thing we've been working on (and more on this in the coming weeks), is putting together a benchmark of log-drain mechanisms to try and work out what would be the most efficient combo of compression/cpu/mem to use for log-drain providers.
Our hope is we can work on making it efficient enough that we can encourage more services to provide log-drains (and therefore allow us to make great experiences around those logs!).
But also, you can sample some of the data within your own VPCs (see Honeycomb's Refinery or Lightstep's Satellites)