What is Dash0?
Dash0 is a modern observability platform built entirely on OpenTelemetry-native standards, designed to make monitoring your applications and infrastructure simple, fast, and cost-transparent. Instead of wrestling with complex setups or vendor lock-in, Dash0 gives developers, SREs, and platform engineers immediate access to logs, metrics, and traces—all unified with rich context and powered by open-source foundations like OTLP, PromQL, and Perses.
The platform cuts through the noise of traditional observability tools by focusing on what matters: actionable insights without months of configuration. With features like AI-assisted analysis (that works quietly in the background), one-click integrations, and keyboard-first navigation, Dash0 helps teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster—often in minutes instead of days.
What are the features of Dash0?
- OpenTelemetry-Native Architecture: Built from the ground up on OpenTelemetry standards for seamless interoperability, no translation layers, and full control over your telemetry pipeline.
- Unified Logs, Metrics & Traces: View correlated data across all three pillars of observability on a single screen, with real-time filtering and semantic context.
- Transparent, Usage-Based Pricing: Pay only for the number of logs, spans, and metric data points you send—not by user seats, gigabytes, or queries—so costs stay predictable.
- AI-Powered Insights Without Hallucinations: Uses LLMs and ML to reduce repetitive tasks (like trace triage) while prioritizing accuracy and safety—no misleading AI guesses.
- Perses-Compatible Dashboards: Build, version, and deploy dashboards as code using the open-source Perses standard, avoiding vendor lock-in.
- Instant Integrations: Get started in seconds with 100+ pre-built integrations for Kubernetes, cloud services, frameworks, and more—no custom setup needed.
- Full PromQL Support: Reuse existing Prometheus alerts and queries, and even run PromQL against traces and logs for familiar, powerful analysis.
What are the use cases of Dash0?
- Quickly debug production incidents by jumping from an error log directly to its distributed trace and related metrics.
- Monitor Kubernetes clusters with zero-config dashboards that auto-detect services and show health, latency, and error rates.
- Replace legacy APM tools with an open, future-proof alternative that supports your entire stack—from frontend to backend to cloud infra.
- Empower every developer (not just SREs) to self-serve observability during development and testing using intuitive search and filtering.
- Control observability costs in high-scale environments by sampling intelligently at the OpenTelemetry Collector level before data reaches Dash0.
- Automate dashboard and alert deployment through GitOps workflows using configuration-as-code with Perses.
How to use Dash0?
- Sign up for a free trial at Dash0’s website—no credit card required.
- Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector (or use auto-instrumentation agents) to send OTLP data directly to Dash0.
- Use built-in dashboards and alerts right away, or import your existing Prometheus rules and Perses dashboards.
- Start exploring with natural-language search or PromQL; filter traces by any attribute instantly.
- Manage all configurations via code (YAML/JSON) and integrate with your CI/CD pipeline for consistent deployments.
- Enable AI-assisted features like trace summarization to speed up root cause analysis—without changing your workflow.
