Dash0

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for engineering and SRE teams that unifies logs, metrics, traces, profiles and real-user monitoring in one store, then runs AI agents on top of it. It targets teams frustrated by proprietary agents, unpredictable observability bills and alert noise that still requires a human to diagnose every incident.

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that ingests logs, metrics, traces, profiles, real-user-monitoring events and synthetic check results into a single store it calls SignalStore, then layers autonomous AI agents on top of that data. It was founded in 2023 by Mirko Novakovic, who previously co-founded application-performance company Instana before IBM acquired it in 2020, and the company deliberately builds on open standards: telemetry arrives over standard OpenTelemetry collectors rather than a proprietary agent, and engineers query it with PromQL and SQL, which is the basis for the vendor's no-lock-in positioning. The differentiating layer is Agent0, a set of AI agents that go past alerting to perform root-cause analysis, dashboard and alert-rule creation, migration work and cost auto-tuning; a companion product, Darkplane, targets teams whose code is increasingly written by coding assistants and tries to supply deployment-time confidence. Dash0 reached roughly 600 paying customers, including Zalando, Taco Bell and The Telegraph, inside two years, and in March 2026 raised a $110 million Series B led by Balderton Capital at a $1 billion valuation, taking total funding to $155 million. It has bought into adjacent capabilities twice: Lumigo in February 2026 for AWS Lambda and LLM observability, and Polar Signals in August 2026 for continuous CPU, memory and NVIDIA CUDA GPU profiling plus the open-source Parca project. Pricing is published per million spans, logs and metric data points, which positions it directly against Datadog on bill predictability.

Category

Infrastructure & Cloud

Pricing

Usage-based

Target Market

SRE Leaders, Platform Engineering Managers, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, DevOps Engineers

Deployment

Cloud-only, Multi-cloud

Founded

2023

Headquarters

New York, United States

Team Size

11-50

Customers

600+ paying customers as of March 2026, including Zalando, Taco Bell and The Telegraph

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  SignalStore

  One backing store for logs, metrics, traces, profiles, events and RUM data, so correlation across signal types does not require stitching separate products together.

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  Agent0

  AI agents that perform live root-cause analysis, automate dashboards and alerts, and auto-tune infrastructure cost, including opening pull requests via AutoTune.

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  OpenTelemetry-native ingest

  Telemetry arrives through standard OpenTelemetry collectors rather than a proprietary agent, so instrumentation stays portable if you leave the platform.

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  PromQL and SQL querying

  Engineers query telemetry in languages they already know instead of learning a vendor-specific query dialect, cutting onboarding time for new team members.

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  Continuous profiling with GPU support

  From the August 2026 Polar Signals acquisition: production-safe CPU, memory and NVIDIA CUDA profiling down to individual functions, plus the open-source Parca project.

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  Cost controls and forecasting

  Monthly budget limits, spam filters and cost forecasting are built into the product so telemetry spend is capped before the invoice arrives.

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  MCP server, CLI and API

  Programmatic and agent-facing access paths let external coding agents and automation query observability data directly, alongside configuration-as-code and a Terraform provider.

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  Cutting an observability bill without losing coverage

  Teams migrating from Datadog report roughly comparable coverage at a fraction of the cost because pricing is per signal volume with no high-water mark or custom-metric surcharge.

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  Autonomous incident triage

  Agent0 correlates signals at alert time and produces a root-cause hypothesis, so the on-call engineer starts from a diagnosis rather than a blank dashboard.

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  Kubernetes and serverless monitoring

  Infrastructure, container and AWS Lambda monitoring in one platform, with the Lambda coverage strengthened by the February 2026 Lumigo acquisition.

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  LLM and AI agent observability

  Tracing model calls and agent runs alongside conventional application telemetry, so AI features are debugged in the same place as the rest of production.

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  Infrastructure cost optimisation from profiles

  Continuous profiling identifies hot functions and wasted compute, and AutoTune proposes changes as pull requests to reduce cloud spend directly.

Dash0 publishes full list pricing, which is unusual in observability. There is one plan and no feature tiering — every capability is included and you pay purely on telemetry volume: $0.60 per million log records, spans or web events, $0.20 per million metric data points, $0.60 per Agent0 credit and $10 per user for AI Coding Insights. There is no high-water-mark charge, no custom-metric surcharge and no minimum spend to negotiate, and monthly budget caps plus cost forecasting are built in. A third-party 2026 comparison put a comparable workload at roughly $600-$1,100 a month on Dash0 versus about $8,200 on Datadog, though that excludes Datadog's security products, which Dash0 does not offer at all. There is no free tier — only a 14-day unlimited trial.

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