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Dash0
Dash0 provides an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform designed to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting for developers, SREs, and platform engineers.
Our verdict
Who it's for
OpenTelemetry-native observability, simplified for logs, metrics, and traces.
Who should look elsewhere
Dash0 is OpenTelemetry-native, so teams still running proprietary vendor agents such as the Datadog or New Relic agents must re-instrument their stack with OpenTelemetry, OTLP, or Prometheus to onboard, which is real migration work for anyone not already on OTel.
Pros
- +OpenTelemetry-native, promoting interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in
- +Transparent, usage-based pricing without hidden fees
- +Simplified setup and maintenance, providing full context across telemetry data
- +Built by observability experts for engineers, focusing on productivity
- +Supports open standards like PromQL and Perses for flexibility
Cons
- −Dash0 is OpenTelemetry-native, so teams still running proprietary vendor agents such as the Datadog or New Relic agents must re-instrument their stack with OpenTelemetry, OTLP, or Prometheus to onboard, which is real migration work for anyone not already on OTel.
- −Logs, traces (spans), and web events are retained for only 30 days by default while metrics are kept for 13 months, so long-term incident forensics or compliance needs on trace and log data require exporting to a separate store.
- −Pricing is purely consumption-based at roughly 0.60 dollars per million log records and spans and 0.20 dollars per million metric data points, so bills scale directly with telemetry volume and can be hard to forecast in high-cardinality, high-log environments.
- −Dash0 emerged from stealth recently, so it carries a shorter production track record and a smaller integration and community ecosystem than entrenched incumbents like Datadog and Grafana.
Key features
- ✓Instant log filtering and search with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions
- ✓Centralized Prometheus & OpenTelemetry metrics monitoring with dashboards and alerts
- ✓Real-time search and filtering for high cardinal attributes in traces, with heatmap drilldowns
- ✓Perses-compatible dashboards for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces, manageable as code
- ✓AI-enhanced telemetry processing to reduce repetitive work and enhance data safely
- ✓Pre-built integrations, dashboards, and alerts for instant setup
- ✓OpenTelemetry-native for standardized data collection and interoperability
- ✓PromQL support for querying traces and logs, and importing Prometheus alerts
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14-day trial | $0 | month | Unlimited features, no credit card; Agent0 credits included during trial |
| Metric data points | $0.2 | month | $0.20 per million; 13-month retention |
| Spans / logs / web events | $0.6 | month | $0.60 per million each; 30-day retention |
| Synthetic API checks | $0.2 | month | $0.20 per thousand runs; 13-month retention |
| Agent0 credits | $0.6 | month | Simple tasks use a fraction of a credit; Full RCA or a PR uses 1-2 credits |
| AI Coding Insights | $10 | month · per seat | $10 per user |