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.
Intuitive Honeycomb Alternative
Observability, Simplified
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OpenTelemetry-native observability
Proprietary, event-centric observabilityOpenTelemetry-native
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform, ensuring seamless, standardized data collection, analysis, and interoperability across modern cloud, serverless, and distributed systems.
Proprietary Query Model
Honeycomb is optimized for event-based telemetry and high-cardinality analysis but relies on its own proprietary query and storage model.
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
Honeycomb’s unique data model and query engine create challenges for migrating to other observability platforms, due to high investments in vendor-specific configurations.
Simple Pricing
Dash0 offers transparent pricing based on data points sent, not bytes or users, ensuring cost predictability with no hidden fees.
Tiered Event-based Pricing
Honeycomb has a complex tier- & event-based pricing model that quickly becomes unpredictable for high-volume workloads.
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
Honeycomb requires manual configuration in multiple areas to reduce telemetry data. Their sampling tool requires an enterprise license.
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 Honeycomb requires manual writing and maintaining regular expressions, which is time-consuming and laborious.
Easy To Use
Dash0’s intuitive, minimalist UI streamlines observability with smart color cues, keyboard navigation, and effortless querying—no PromQL required.
Complex Query Model
Honeycomb’s UI has little built-in visualizations, requiring users to learn a new query model centered around unifying metrics, logs and traces into honeycomb events.
Why choose Dash0 vs. Honeycomb?
Features
OpenTelemetry-Native
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Open Standards for alerts and dashboards
Full resource-based context and navigation
Transparent Pricing
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Telemetry Spam Filter
AI improved logs, metrics, traces
Triage root cause analysis
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Integration hub
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Easy to set up and use
Infrastructure as Code
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.