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 Elastic Alternative
Observability, Simplified
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OpenTelemetry-native observability
Search-driven telemetry analysisOpenTelemetry-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
Elastic supports OTel data, but full compatibility often requires translating attributes into elastic common schema (ECS). This limits interoperability across open observability tools and standards.
Simple Pricing
Dash0 offers transparent pricing based on data points sent, not bytes or users, ensuring cost predictability with no hidden fees.
Complex Pricing
Elastic's pricing quickly becomes complex — with separate charges for node size, retention, support tier, data tier, and server location, all layered onto a resource-based model.
Easy To Use
Dash0’s intuitive, minimalist UI streamlines observability with smart color cues, keyboard navigation, and effortless querying - no PromQL required.
Complex UI Requires Extensive Training
Elastic’s UI (Kibana) offers deep customization, but is split across multiple apps with distinct interfaces and proprietary query syntax. This creates a steep learning curve that requires extensive training.
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
Elastic ingests open formats like OpenTelemetry, but its dashboards, queries, and alerts rely on elastic common schema (ECS). This limits portability and leads to vendor lock-in.
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 Correlation
Elastic enables cross-signal correlation, but relies on exact ECS field mappings. Incomplete or inconsistent mappings often break one-click navigation, requiring manual tagging to restore context.
Telemetry Spam Filter
Dash0’s telemetry spam filter lets users easily drop noisy telemetry singnals in just two clicks - no complex setup, no queries required.
Manual Filtering Rules
Elastic allows telemetry filtering, but requires configuring custom pipeline rules and redeploying agents to control excessive data collection.
Pay For What You Use
In Dash0 you only pay for the telemetry data you actually use, after filtering with spam filter.
Pay For What You Ingest
With Elastic you have to pay for all ingested data, regardless of applied filtering mechanisms within Elastic.
Triage & Root Cause Analysis
Dash0’s automated telemetry comparison quickly identifies bottlenecks and anomalies, accelerating root cause analysis and reducing MTTR.
Config-heavy Root Cause Analysis
Elastic offers ML-powered root-cause analysis, but it requires extensive setup with dedicated ML nodes and manual configuration - slowing time to insight.
Why choose Dash0 vs. Elastic?
Features
OpenTelemetry-native
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Easy to set up and use
Open standards for alerts and dashboards
Full resource-based context and navigation
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Transparent pricing
Telemetry spam filter
AI improved logs
Triage root cause analysis
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Integration hub
Infrastructure as code
SIEM
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.