Dash0

What it is for

Dash0 is a hosted OpenTelemetry desk: you open the service map, and spans ingest at $0.060 per million (storage $0.540 per million, 30-day). Use it when the job is OTel you pay per signal, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Dash0 service map (opentelemetry-demo / frontend, checkout / recommendation / cart edges, 40.94K requests, 1.96% errors) from the docs still — not a pricing card. The map itself is ops of Services. Agent0 on the left rail is generate-on-Services, not a second desk. Dash0 bills signals, not seats (AI SDLC Insights is the seat add-on).

Key features

• Services / service map — a topology you inspect (service-map still; docs). One service. Cover frontend / checkout edges, RED telemetry, and failed checkmarks are ops of this.
• Traces (spans) — a distributed trace you open (pricing Spans). A span, not a map. Ingest $0.060 / million; storage $0.540 / million (30-day).
• Logs — a log record you keep (pricing Log records). A log, not a span. Same $0.060 / $0.540 ladder as spans on the page we fetched.
• Metrics — a data point you store (pricing Metric data points). A metric, not a log. Ingest $0.020 / million; storage $0.180 / million (13-month).
• Synthetics — an API check run (pricing Synthetic API Check Runs). A probe, not a metric. Storage $0.20 / thousand (13-month). Ingest prints as “–” on the table we fetched.

Alerting / checkmarks on the cover are ops of Services. Agent0 credits ($0.60 / credit) are generate. AI SDLC Insights ($10 / user / month) is a seat add-on, not a sixth desk.

Who it's for

Best fit: platform teams who will send a first OTel service map, then stay on the printed $0.060 / million ingest when they want traces + logs in one SignalStore.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from dash0.com/pricing. The page is usage-priced. There is no forever $0 tile on the HTML we fetched.

• Spans — ingest $0.060 / million; storage $0.540 / million; 30-day retention.
• Log records — ingest $0.060 / million; storage $0.540 / million; 30-day.
• Web events — same $0.060 / $0.540 ladder.
• Metric data points — ingest $0.020 / million; storage $0.180 / million; 13-month.
• Synthetic API Check Runs — storage $0.20 / thousand; 13-month.
• Agent0 — $0.60 / credit.
• AI SDLC Insights — $10 / user / month.

Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location. Custom ingest rates print as a sales path — do not invent a committed-use dollar.

Limitations / costs

• No printed forever Free plan. A first map still invoices ingest.
• Storage is 9× ingest on spans/logs ($0.540 vs $0.060). Keeping a month of traces is the bill.
• Agent0 is generate-on-Services. Do not treat the left-rail prompts as a second listing.
• An OTel desk, not a wide-event query builder. For Honeycomb queries see Honeycomb. For SigNoz self-host see SigNoz.

Alternatives

• Honeycomb — wide-event Query Builder when you want Free 20M events, not Dash0’s $0.060 / million spans.
• SigNoz — OpenTelemetry when you want to self-host the desk, not pay SignalStore storage.
• Axiom — log/event ingest when you want Axiom’s printed tiles, not Dash0’s service map.

Official tutorial

Official Dash0 channel video: How AI Simplifies OpenTelemetry Onboarding (oEmbed author: Dash0). First-party onboarding; the docs service-map still is the cover. Agent0 / AI on the video is generate-on-Services.

Written path: dash0.com/pricing plus the service-map still.

Website

https://www.dash0.com

Repository

https://github.com/dash0hq

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Dash0 service map from the docs still. Dollars checked on dash0.com/pricing (spans/logs $0.060 / $0.540 per million; metrics $0.020 / $0.180; synthetics $0.20/k; Agent0 $0.60/credit; AI SDLC $10/user/mo). Tutorial oEmbed author: Dash0.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.