Capture and access massive industrial data volumes at lightning speed.
Organise your data with a powerful asset model for clear process insights.
Create intuitive trends and live dashboards effortlessly using Axiom.
Canary captures and stores time-series data like any historian, but that’s where the similarities mostly end. Instead of just archiving, Canary helps you make sense of your data without changing the source.
It features asset models and virtual views to organise raw data points, smart calculations for real-time KPIs, event tracking to give meaning to your data streams, and the Axiom visualisation tool for building intuitive trends and dashboards.
What also sets Canary apart is its ease of use. It's surprisingly simple to install, configure, and maintain, even with complex industrial setups spanning multiple sites. This makes it a powerful and reliable way to learn from the past, while preparing for the future.
Canary is our go-to historian when our clients need a mature, dedicated solution that can handle massive scale and speed. When we implement it, we know that our clients’ data isn't just sitting in a database. All that valuable information is organised, contextualised, and immediately made available for dashboards, reports, and other analytics.
Canary has been around for decades and focuses on doing one thing right, instead of a bit of everything. It's a high-performance, reliable data backbone that matches our vision of truly connected factories, so we're proud to call ourselves a Certified Partner.
Want to see Canary deliver results in real-world projects? Explore our latest insights and case studies to discover how we use it to capture, structure, and leverage critical time-series data.
For more tips and tricks on starting or mastering Canary, make sure to check out their Help Center. You can talk to the community to ask questions, find solutions, and offer feedback, consult the knowledge base for a fast answer, or get on-demand learnings and webinars from the Canary Academy.
If you're serious about leveraging your time-series data, your historian needs to match your ambitions. Here are the key reasons we recommend Canary:
Industrial operations generate tons of data, so you need a historian that can keep up and lets you access data when you need it most. Luckily, Canary is engineered for performance. It records massive volumes of time-series data reliably and uses advanced compression to keep your storage manageable. It doesn't use function calling like other historians, so you can retrieve years of history almost immediately.
Trying to find the right data using just some cryptic tag names is far from ideal. Instead, Canary's asset model lets you build a logical structure that mirrors your actual plant assets. Tanks, pumps, lines, ... whatever makes sense for your operation. That way, finding the data you need becomes intuitive. With built-in context, building meaningful dashboards and reports becomes much simpler.
Historians can be complex to set up, especially when it comes to enterprise-scale configurations spanning the globe. Canary is refreshingly straightforward by comparison. Installing and configuring it is easy, often running smoothly on just a single server. Maintaining it is just as simple, freeing up valuable time for your team. In other words: you can start getting value from your data much more quickly.
Just like the other parts of connected factories, a historian shouldn't operate in a silo. Canary integrates smoothly with the rest of your tech stack thanks to its open design. Its flexible API and built-in views make it easy to pull data into tools like Power BI or Tableau or connect directly with SCADA systems like Ignition. A great start towards setting up a Unified Namespace!
Canary offers a refreshingly clear approach to licensing. Pricing is determined by the volume of data tags you need to manage, available through either a perpetual purchase or a quarterly subscription. You can also opt for an ODBC connector or additional support. With predictable costs, you can expand your data collection without worrying about extra charges when you add individual users or data collectors.
Canary offers a few straightforward ways to get a feel for the platform. Dive into the interactive demo for Axiom, their visualization tool, and see your data come alive. Prefer a guided tour? Their regular webinars offer a solid overview. Or, if you want specific questions answered, you can chat directly with their team.
Ready to move beyond exploration and implement Canary for robust, reliable data collection in your factory? That’s where we come in.
