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By axiomhq

query-metrics

axiomhq

Explore and query your Axiom metrics with context.

metrics observability

What it does

Queries Axiom MetricsDB and returns discovered datasets, metric metadata, tag values, and metric results.

When to use it

Use it to query metrics, explore metric datasets, check values, or investigate OpenTelemetry metrics.

How to use it

Give it a metrics question; it discovers the relevant metadata, composes an MPL query, executes it, and returns the results.

Uses


Access · 4

This skill

Axiom MetricsDB

Read

Queries your Axiom metrics

MPL query specification

Read

Fetches and follows the MPL spec

~/.axiom.toml

Read

Reads your Axiom configuration

${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/axiom-resolve-url

Write

Caches resolved Axiom URLs

What you need · 4

An Axiom deployment must be configured in ~/.axiom.toml.

The target Axiom MetricsDB dataset must be an OpenTelemetry metrics dataset.

An Axiom account with access to the organization and permission to create a scoped API token is required.

jq must be installed to filter API responses and construct query request bodies.


About this skill

Visibility
Public
Repository
axiomhq/skills
Created
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Files
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