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Introducing Dash0: Observability, Simplified

At Dash0, we’ve heard your frustrations loud and clear. Many companies face sky-high, unpredictable observability bills, while others struggle with the complexity of piecing together open-source components.

Today, we’re thrilled to unveil a solution that addresses both issues:

Dash0 – Observability, Simplified.

Dash0, powered by OpenTelemetry, results from 15 months of relentless effort and collaboration with some incredible design partners. It’s a platform built from the ground up to simplify observability and bring much-needed clarity to your logs, metrics, and traces.

Why OpenTelemetry?

The core of Dash0 is OpenTelemetry, an open standard that provides APIs, SDKs, and tools to instrument, generate, and export telemetry data.

As applications grow in complexity, so does the volume of telemetry data. However, recent DEJ research reveals that 69% of organizations struggle to turn this data into actionable insights. Dash0 is here to change that.

By building Dash0 on OpenTelemetry, we’re committed to open standards, transparency, and flexibility—eliminating the constraints and proprietary lock-ins that many observability solutions impose. Dash0 brings together high-cardinality metrics, logs, and traces in a centralized data lake, where they can be navigated and connected seamlessly.

A New Approach to Observability: Resource-Centric and Context-Driven

One of Dash0’s most powerful features is Resource as Context. Unlike other platforms, Dash0 places your resources—whether they’re services, servers, pods, containers, or AWS zones—at the heart of your observability data. By aligning with how you see and manage your infrastructure, Dash0 provides a truly resource-centric observability solution.

Through OTel Semantic Conventions, we make it easy to connect metrics, logs, and traces. With Dash0, you can explore your data in a meaningful context, helping you find answers without the guesswork. We’re defining a new category: OpenTelemetry-native Observability.

Logs with Span Context, Affected resources and filters based on semantic convention.

Key Features of Dash0

Dash0 is designed to provide clarity and control across every aspect of observability:

Dependencies and Contextual Insights

Visualize dependencies across your infrastructure and services - and navigate hierarchies effortlessly. Slice and dice data, customize tables, and adapt data views to meet your unique needs.

Powerful Traces

With Dash0, filter and search traces based on high-cardinality keys and values, get full support for Span Links and asynchronous events, and enjoy detailed trace views where events, logs, resources, and metrics are all contextualized.

Logs with Full Context

Instantly search, filter, and customize views for logs, like those from Vercel. Understand exactly where a log was generated and access detailed information on the related resources—turning logs into a context-driven tool.

Flexible Metrics Management

View metrics in flat or hierarchical formats by namespace, control cardinality to manage costs, and create checks, alerts, and dashboards with just one click. Choose between Dash0’s Query Builder or PromQL for advanced users, making metrics management simpler and smarter.

Comprehensive Checks and Alerts

Dash0 integrates over 500+ templates for checks and supports advanced PromQL queries. Go from issue to resolution in a single click and send alerts to your preferred channels—email, Slack, or PagerDuty.

Customizable Dashboards

Built on the Perses platform, Dash0’s dashboards offer a smooth, intuitive experience. Dashboards work seamlessly with metrics, logs, and traces, giving you everything you need in one powerful, customizable view.

Transparent and Fair Pricing

At Dash0, we believe in transparent and fair pricing. Our pricing model is straightforward:

1M Logs, Spans, or Span Events for $0.60

1M Metrics for $0.20

There are no surprises—just full visibility into what you’re paying for.

Real Time Cost Control

Real Time Cost Control

Get Started with Dash0 Today!

The best part? Our 14-day free trial starts TODAY! Experience the power of Dash0 with full access, including an OpenTelemetry demo. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore observability, simplified.

Register NOW and see how Dash0 can transform your approach to observability.

Because details matter. Zero lock-in. Zero surprises. Zero hassle.