Logs
Instant log filtering and search
Manage diverse logs with the fastest search and filtering capabilities. Leverage OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for context, traces, and metrics, to spot patterns in a blink.
Modern Datadog Alternative
Observability, Simplified
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OpenTelemetry-native observability
Enterprise monitoring and securityOpenTelemetry-native
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform, ensuring seamless, standardized data collection, analysis, and interoperability across modern cloud, serverless, and distributed systems.
Proprietary Ecosystem
Datadog's OpenTelemetry support is less integrated than the proprietary telemetry collection, causing configuration complexity, unexpected billing increases, and limited visibility into errors.
Easy To Use
Dash0’s intuitive, minimalist UI streamlines observability with smart color cues, keyboard navigation, and effortless querying—no PromQL required.
Complex
Datadog's enterprise-focused interface presents a steep learning curve due to its overwhelming navigation, specialized terminology, and complex configuration, often requiring dedicated specialists for effective management.
Open Standards
Dash0 embraces open standards like OpenTelemetry, Perses, and Prometheus, ensuring flexibility, interoperability, and future-proof observability—without vendor lock-in.
Vendor Lock-In
Datadog's reliance on proprietary standards creates significant vendor lock-in, as organizations invest heavily in Datadog-specific configurations that are not easily transferable.
Full Resource-based Context & navigation
Dash0’s resource-centric approach seamlessly correlates logs, spans, and metrics using semantic conventions, enabling one-click navigation for effortless troubleshooting.
Manual Configuration
Datadog's unified tagging system correlates telemetry signals, but this requires manual configuration of proprietary tools and creates challenges for migration.
Simple Pricing
Dash0 offers transparent pricing based on data points sent, not bytes or users, ensuring cost predictability with no hidden fees.
Obscure Pricing
Customers pay for ingestion, storage, retention, and additional pipeline features. Agent/host pricing is based on functionality and number of metric series monitored. Misconfigurations can lead to unforeseen costs, and identifying the source of these issues is challenging.
Telemetry Spam Filter
Dash0’s Telemetry Spam Filter lets users effortlessly drop unwanted telemetry with two clicks, reducing costs while maintaining OpenTelemetry compatibility.
Manual Configuration
Datadog requires manual configuration in multiple areas to reduce telemetry data, including implementing log filtering rules, configuring metric filters, and adjusting tracing data sampling strategies.
AI Enhanced Telemetry & Pattern Detection
Dash0’s AI-powered observability enriches telemetry by auto-structuring logs, identifying severities, and adding semantic context—delivering instant insights without manual configuration.
Writing Manual Regular Expressions
Creating log patterns in Datadog requires manually writing and maintaining regular expressions, which is time-consuming and laborious.
Triage & Root Cause Analysis
Dash0’s automated telemetry comparison quickly identifies bottlenecks and anomalies, accelerating root cause analysis and reducing MTTR.
Watchdog
Datadog's Watchdog automatically detects performance issues, but it lacks transparency, which can hinder troubleshooting and lead to less actionable insights.
Why choose Dash0 vs. Datadog?
Features
OpenTelemetry-Native
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Easy to set up and use
Open Standards for alerts and dashboards
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Full resource-based context and navigation
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Transparent Pricing
Telemetry Spam Filter
AI improved logs, metrics, traces
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Triage root cause analysis
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Integration hub
Infrastructure as Code
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SIEM
Profiling
Observability in Minutes, not Months
No complex setups, no maintenance - all the context for your logs, metrics and traces.
Metrics
Monitor the metrics that matter
Centralize Prometheus & OpenTelemetry metrics to monitor your infrastructure and service with ease. Use proven dashboards, integrations and alerts with full context, based on OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
Traces
Each request, explained
Spot errors and bottlenecks: real-time search and filtering capabilities for all high cardinal attributes. Get heatmap drilldowns, trace details, and context for events, logs, and resources on one page.
Dashboards
Visualize your data with ease
Perses lets you build powerful dashboards to visualize metrics, logs, and traces. Customize with built-in variables, use pre-made dashboards, and manage them as code to align with your releases.
AI
AI is an implementation detail
At Dash0 we believe that the best AI feature is the one you love without knowing it’s AI. We use LLMs, ML and other AI technologies to reduce repetitive work, enhancing your telemetry safely—no hallucinations.
Integrations
Instant observability for your entire stack
Leverage our pre-built integrations, dashboards, alerts, and views. Get started instantly with one click — no customization required.