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 SolarWinds Observability Alternative
Autonomous Production AI
Agent-native OpenTelemetry context data lakevs
Modular Enterprise IT Platform with bolt-on AIEasy To Use
Dash0’s intuitive, minimalist UI streamlines observability with smart color cues, keyboard navigation, and effortless querying - no PromQL required.
Fragmented & Complex UI
Solarwinds’ UI is powerful but complex. Analysis is split across tools without a unified query experience and limited out of the box correlation. Navigating dashboards, entities, and settings requires extensive training.
Simple Pricing
Dash0 offers transparent pricing based on data points sent, not bytes or users, ensuring cost predictability with no hidden fees.
Obscure & Expensive Pricing
SolarWinds Observability charges per component: separate SKUs for APM, Logs, Infrastructure, Database Observability, and DEM. Usage-based ingest, retention tiers, and bundled synthetics and RUM units stack on top. Costs compound across products as you scale.
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
SolarWinds Observability SaaS supports OTLP ingest, but direct OTel data does not create entities, full observability requires the SolarWinds Observability Agent and the proprietary entity model.
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 Signal Correlation
Solarwinds does not offer automatic signal correlation by default. Log-trace correlation must be configured per library and depends on manual trace-context injection, entity creation, and preconfiguration.
Telemetry Spam Filter
Dash0’s telemetry spam filter lets users effortlessly drop unwanted telemetry with two clicks, reducing costs while maintaining OpenTelemetry compatibility.
Manual Filtering Rules
Solarwinds allows telemetry filtering, but requires configuring custom pipeline rules in the SDK as well as 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 Solarwinds Observability you have to pay for all ingested data, regardless of applied filtering mechanisms within Solarwind's UI.
Agent0 — the autonomous production AI
Agent0 scans your environment every 60 seconds, surfacing degraded services, alert coverage gaps, and ownership gaps before incidents fire. When an alert hits, Agent0 investigates across logs, traces, metrics, deployments, and infrastructure state, identifies the root cause in code, and raises a validated pull request directly in GitHub.
SW1 — conversational AI teammate
SW1 is a natural-language interface to query system performance, capacity, and health. During incidents, it posts diagnostics and recommended actions to collaboration tools. It does not scan for blind spots between alerts, does not generate alerts or dashboards, and does not raise pull requests for code fixes.
Full Infrastructure Control
Create, manage and update your dashboards, rules, and configurations in any editor. Integrate them with your IAC setup, and use your existing release pipeline for deployment – no manual changes needed.
Limited Portability & Automation
Solarwinds offers limited IaC support through Terraform for select resources like alerts and tokens, but dashboards and configurations must be managed manually in the UI, limiting full pipeline automation.
Why choose Dash0 vs. Solarwinds Observability?
Features
Easy to set up and use
Open standards for alerts and dashboards
Full resource-based context and navigation
Transparent pricing
Telemetry spam filter
OpenTelemetry-native
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AI improved logs
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Triage root cause analysis
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Integration hub
Infrastructure as code
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Database observability
Proactive environment scanning
Alert coverage gap detection
Ownership gap detection
AI-generated dashboards
Instrumentation quality checks
Any MCP connector
Frontend / RUM / Core Web Vitals
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Trusted by
Patrice Bouillet
Solution Architect - Porsche Digital
Dash0's foundation on open source standards ensures future-proof and next-gen observability. Their focus on ease of use empowers all of our developers to gain insights quickly.
Mitre Angjelkoski
Infrastructure engineer - Chargetrip
In an age of overly complex tools, we find that Dash0 stands out for its simplicity and speed. With simple pricing, easy integration, amazing filtering capabilities, fast handling of large data volumes, and straightforward alerting with clear error messages, Dash0 makes observability a breeze.
Carlo Verhoeven
Senior Full-Stack Engineer - catchHR
Dash0 has significantly streamlined our approach to observability and OpenTelemetry, bringing everything together in one place. The intuitive interface and seamless integration have enabled us to quickly gain valuable insights into our systems and resolve issues efficiently.
David Abram
Senior Web Developer - CroCoder
What I love most about Dash0 is that it's fully OpenTelemetry native which has significantly improved our software development process. The seamless navigation from logs to traces to metrics streamlines bug diagnosis and troubleshooting, enhancing our team's efficiency.
Oliver Michels
DevOps Cloud Architect - AV Software Solutions 360° at Bechtle
With Dash0, we have found an OpenTelemetry-native solution that provides the flexibility we need. With the support of the open standard OpenTelemetry, we are able to handle public resources responsibly.
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.