# Dash0 > Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform built for engineering teams who want full visibility into their systems without the operational overhead of managing complex pipelines or proprietary agents. It ingests logs, metrics, and traces natively via OpenTelemetry, correlates them automatically, and gives you the tools to explore, alert, and act — all in one place. > Dash0 was founded by Mirko Novakovic, Ben Blackmore, Miel Donkers, Marcel Birkner, Michele Mancioppi in 2023, announced $9.5M in seed funding in 2024, a $35M Series A in 2025 and a $110M Series B financing round in 2026. The company is heavily involved in the Open Telemetry Open Source and Standards communities. ## Use Cases - [Infrastructure Monitoring](https://www.dash0.com/infrastructure-monitoring): Monitor the health of your entire infrastructure — hosts, containers, cloud services — using OpenTelemetry-based metrics collection. Dash0 lets you build and customize dashboards in seconds and configure alerts that adapt to your baselines, so you can catch degradations before they become incidents. - [Log Management](https://www.dash0.com/log-management): Ingest, search, and analyze logs at scale without managing indexing infrastructure. Dash0 brings AI-driven insights to log exploration, making it easy to filter, correlate with traces, and surface root causes quickly — even across high-volume, high-cardinality log streams. - [Application Performance Management](https://www.dash0.com/application-performance-management): Get deep visibility into application performance using the OpenTelemetry SDK data your services already emit. Dash0 surfaces latency breakdowns, error rates, and service dependencies so you can identify and fix performance regressions without guesswork. - [Distributed Tracing](https://www.dash0.com/distributed-tracing): Explore distributed traces across microservices with a powerful trace viewer built for OpenTelemetry. Dash0 lets you filter by service, operation, duration, and attributes, drill into individual spans, and jump directly to correlated logs and metrics — all without leaving the trace view. - [Kubernetes Monitoring](https://www.dash0.com/kubernetes-monitoring): Get full observability into your Kubernetes clusters, from node-level metrics down to individual pod logs and container traces. Dash0 correlates signals across layers so you can troubleshoot a slow pod by looking at its logs, traces, and resource usage in a single view. - [Website Monitoring](https://www.dash0.com/website-monitoring): Track real user experience with browser-based monitoring that captures session data, Core Web Vitals, and JavaScript errors. Dash0 correlates frontend issues with backend traces, so when a user hits a slow page you can trace the request all the way through your stack. - [Synthetic Monitoring](https://www.dash0.com/synthetic-monitoring): Proactively test your APIs and user flows from locations around the globe before real users are affected. Dash0's synthetic monitoring detects service failures, SSL expirations, and latency regressions continuously, and alerts you the moment something breaks. ## Platform Features - [AI SRE Agents](https://www.dash0.com/ai-sre-agent): Agent0 is Dash0's suite of AI-powered SRE agents that help you work faster during incidents and day-to-day operations. Specialized agents handle incident triage, write PromQL queries from natural language, analyze traces, create dashboards, and assist with onboarding — reducing the toil of observability work. - [Dashboards](https://www.dash0.com/dashboards): Build dashboards from your OpenTelemetry metrics, logs, and traces using a flexible editor that doesn't require you to know PromQL upfront. Dashboards can be shared across teams, templated with variables, and managed as code via Dash0's API. - [Alerting](https://www.dash0.com/alerting): Define alerts on any signal — metrics, log patterns, trace error rates — with thresholds, dynamic baselines, and multi-condition rules. Alerts route to your existing notification channels and include enough context to start investigating immediately. - [Service Map](https://www.dash0.com/service-map): Automatically generated from your OpenTelemetry trace data, the Service Map gives you a live view of how your services depend on each other. Spot error hotspots, high-latency edges, and unexpected dependencies at a glance — no manual configuration needed. - [Integrations](https://www.dash0.com/integrations): Dash0 integrates with the tools and runtimes you already use — from Kubernetes operators and AWS Lambda to popular frameworks across Node.js, Python, Go, Java, and more. Most integrations are OpenTelemetry-native, so you're never locked into a proprietary agent. - [Transparent Cost](https://www.dash0.com/transparent-cost): Observability costs are notoriously hard to predict. Dash0 gives you a granular, real-time breakdown of what you're spending — by service, signal type, or team — so you can make informed decisions about retention and sampling without surprises on your bill. - [Observability as Code](https://www.dash0.com/observability-as-code): Manage dashboards, alerts, and check configurations through Dash0's API or Terraform provider, the same way you manage your application infrastructure. This makes observability reproducible, reviewable, and part of your normal deployment workflow. ## Docs - [Documentation](https://www.dash0.com/docs/dash0): The full Dash0 documentation covering setup, OpenTelemetry instrumentation guides, API reference, and feature walkthroughs. Dash0 supports metrics, logs, traces, and resources, with built-in alerting, dashboards, website monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and Agent0 for AI-assisted troubleshooting. ## Resources - [Guides](https://www.dash0.com/guides): Step-by-step technical guides covering OpenTelemetry instrumentation, observability best practices, and how to get the most out of Dash0. Useful for engineers setting up observability from scratch or migrating from another platform. - [Blog](https://www.dash0.com/blog): In-depth articles on observability, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, eBPF, and the engineering decisions behind Dash0's product. Written by practitioners for practitioners. - [Knowledge Base](https://www.dash0.com/knowledge): A curated collection of reference material on OpenTelemetry concepts, observability patterns, and the ecosystem around them — useful for teams building or improving their observability practice. - [Comparisons](https://www.dash0.com/comparisons): Honest, detailed comparisons between Dash0 and other observability platforms — covering pricing, OpenTelemetry compatibility, feature depth, and operational complexity. Useful if you're evaluating vendors or making the case for switching. - [Changelog](https://www.dash0.com/changelog): A running log of new features, improvements, and fixes shipped to Dash0. Subscribe via newsletter or RSS to stay current with platform updates. - [OpenTelemetry eBook](https://www.dash0.com/lp/opentelemetry-for-dummies): A practical introduction to OpenTelemetry — what it is, how its components fit together (SDK, Collector, exporters), and how to adopt it in real-world applications. Written for engineers who want to understand the standard without wading through the spec. ## Company - [About](https://www.dash0.com/about): Dash0 was founded by a team of observability and monitoring experts with a single goal: make observability accessible to every developer, not just those with dedicated SRE teams or large infrastructure budgets. - [Pricing](https://www.dash0.com/pricing): Dash0 uses consumption-based pricing with no hidden fees. You pay for what you ingest and retain, with full cost visibility built into the product. A 14-day free trial with unlimited usage is available to get started. - [Security](https://www.dash0.com/security): Overview of Dash0's security practices, data handling, compliance posture, and trust commitments — relevant for security reviews and procurement processes. - [Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dash0): Open roles at Dash0 — an early-stage, remote-friendly observability company building on top of OpenTelemetry. - [Contact](https://www.dash0.com/contact): Get in touch with the Dash0 team for sales inquiries, technical questions, or partnership opportunities.