Key Concepts
Dash0 is built on a consistent and unified concept that ensures a seamless and intuitive experience across all its features.
At its core, Dash0 integrates a range of essential "key concepts" designed to work cohesively.
In this section
Adaptive Sampling
Adaptive Sampling intelligently samples telemetry data during queries to maintain fast performance when exploring large datasets, while providing statistically representative results.
Time Picker
The Time Picker allows you to quickly select a time range that you want to focus on.
Command Menu
Dash0 was built with engineers in mind. To navigate quickly everything in Dash0 can be controlled using the keyboard.
Filtering
Dash0 is designed to be the central Observability system, containing data from various systems and spanning multiple teams. To quickly access relevant information, context and powerful filtering capabilities are required.
Operation Names
In Dash0, Operation Names provide a structured way to categorize and analyze application behaviors across various APIs and services.
Resource Equality
Dash0 automatically clusters telemetry you send around resources, the identity of which is based on rules grounded in the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
Synthetic Metrics
Dash0 provides synthetic metrics to help users analyze logs, spans, and related telemetry data dynamically without requiring predefined metric aggregations.
Datasets
Datasets provide a structure to separate unrelated observability data while keeping organizational data like users, notification settings, and billing information.
Organizations
Dash0 is designed with multi-client and multi-tenancy capabilities for data separation and access control.
Auth Tokens
Control API access to Dash0 in a granular and secure way using Auth Tokens.
Endpoints
Dash0's public facing endpoints for both reading, configuring and ingesting data. For example, to send OTLP data, use the Prometheus API and more.
Deeplink URLs
Deeplink URLs provide direct access to specific Dash0 views with pre-configured parameters. Any view can be shared as a URL that automatically applies filters, time ranges, and other settings when opened.
Last updated: February 2, 2026