Dash0

Introduction

In this section you will get a quick overview of the background of Dash0 and the structure of this documentation.

Get started

Here you find everything to get started with Dash0. From sign-up over sending data to getting information about the initial views in Dash0.

Key Concepts

Dash0 is built on a consistent and unified concept that ensures a seamless and intuitive experience across all its features.

Resources

In Dash0, everything revolves around resources because they are the core of what users care about. Instead of focusing narrowly on individual signals like metrics, traces, or logs, Dash0 provides a resource-centric approach.As an OpenTelemetry-native platform, Dash0 adheres to semantic conventions for defining and modeling resources, ensuring a complete picture even when data sources are fragmented.

Tracing

Dash0's Tracing view provides an excellent overview of all spans and simplifies analyzing issues based on span information.

Logging

Dash0's Logging view shows all your log data and is an easy entry point when investigating an issue based on log records.The graphs provide powerful high-level views, and the filtering capabilities allow you to find what you are looking for easily. The provided context will enable you to extend filters quickly or immediately jump to a different view, allowing you to analyze an issue from a different angle.

Website Monitoring

Dash0's Website monitoring view gives you a comprehensive, real-time look into how users experience your website or web app, making it the ideal starting point for investigating frontend performance and behavior.The visualizations offer high-level insights into page loads, user sessions, and web vitals, while powerful filters let you quickly narrow down by browser, location, route, or user. With rich contextual data like session traces, custom events, and performance metrics you can easily pivot to related views and uncover the root cause of issues from multiple angles.

Synthetic Monitoring

Dash0’s Synthetic Monitoring view gives you proactive, automated insights into the availability and performance of your websites and APIs. By running scripted checks at regular intervals from multiple global locations, Synthetic Monitoring ensures that outages, latency spikes, and functional regressions are caught before they affect real users.The visualizations provide high-level overviews of uptime and response times, while detailed run data and error analysis help you quickly isolate root causes.

Metrics

One of the key signals of Observability is metrics. Find out how Dash0 allows you to quickly navigate through your metrics and use them in alerts and dashboards.

Alerting

Dash0 Checks offer crucial insights into your resources like infrastructure and services, empowering proactive detection and swift response to performance issues and outages. By setting up checks to monitor key metrics and thresholds, organizations can receive instant alerts, allowing them to address issues before they affect customers or disrupt operations.Easily keep track of critical changes by checking metrics, logs, and RED Metrics based on tracing telemetry. With Dash0 Checks, you can:Streamline monitoring and response workflowsImprove operational efficiencyMaximize system performance

Dashboards

One of Dash0 design principles is having a clean UI that allows quick navigation using context. Sometimes very specific views based on user or use-case requirements are necessary. Dashboards allow you to tailor your view on your Observability information.

API

Dash0 exposes various public APIs allowing you to configure Dash0 and to query your data.

MCP

The Dash0 MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server is designed to facilitate advanced interactions between AI assistants and your observability data.

Integrations

Integrations are ready-made packages to get you started quickly with quality guidelines, dashboards, and check rules.

Dash0 Operator for Kubernetes

There is no faster or easier way to monitor your Kubernetes cluster and workloads than using the Dash0 Operator for Kubernetes. Built on open standards and tailored for the optimal user experience.

Access Control

Proper access control is a crucial component of any observability solution. In Dash0, we've designed a flexible access control system that balances security with usability, ensuring your team can collaborate effectively while maintaining appropriate permission boundaries.

Semantic Conventions

Cost Control

Control over the cost of your observability is essential. You want to turn your observability data into valuable insights that help you, at the right price point.

FAQ

Should you have further questions that have not been answered, this is the section to look at.

Quotas and Limits

This page documents fine-grained limits and quotas for sending data to and querying data from Dash0 that apply to your configuration and telemetry you send to Dash0. To the best of our knowledge, you should never hit any of these limits with OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentations or any normal observability use-case.