The Splunk alternative for the AI era

Autonomous Production AI

Agent-native OpenTelemetry data lake

Multi-product portfolio across Cloud, AppDynamics, ITSI, and Platform

Easy To Use

Dash0 is one UI on one data lake. Logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and Agent0 investigations live in the same surface, with full OpenTelemetry semantic context across every screen. No PromQL required, no second product to log into.

Fragmented & Complex UI

Splunk Observability now spans four billing-distinct products: Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk AppDynamics, Splunk Observability Cloud, and IT Service Intelligence. Each has its own UI conventions, query language, agents, and data store. Cisco is unifying the navigation, but operationally you are still licensing and learning four products.

Simple Pricing

Dash0 prices on the data you actually keep, not bytes or hosts or users. Agent0 capacity is task-based (investigation, asset creation, PR, KB update). No per-seat AI fees, no per-investigation charges.

Complex & Expensive Pricing

Splunk prices on four different axes at once. Observability Cloud is per-host across three tiers. RUM is per session. Synthetic Monitoring is per check. Splunk Cloud Platform logs are per-GB ingested. AppDynamics adds its own subscription. Cisco AI Defense integrations and AI Agent Monitoring carry separate licensing on top.

Open Standards

Dash0 reads OpenTelemetry natively with full semantic structure. Dashboards are Perses. Alerts and dashboards are Observability-as-Code with open schemas. PromQL is supported, not required.

Vendor Lock-In

Splunk Observability Cloud is OpenTelemetry-native at ingest, but the rest of the portfolio runs on proprietary substrates. OTel data sent to Splunk gets to be in OTel format until it is indexed, and that index is yours only inside Splunk.

Telemetry Spam Filter

Dash0's spam filter drops noisy logs, metrics, and traces with two clicks at ingest, without rebuilding pipelines or redeploying collectors. Cuts the bill before storage, applies across all signal types, keeps OpenTelemetry semantic structure intact.

Manual Filtering Rules

Splunk has a point-and-click UI to drop, archive, or aggregate metrics post-ingest in Observability Cloud. It is metrics-only, Enterprise Edition only, and it acts after data has been ingested rather than at the edge. Log and trace cost control still depends on collector configuration and per-product pipeline rules.

Pay For What You Use

In Dash0, the spam filter applies before the bill. You pay for the data points you keep, not the data points you tried to drop. Agent0 work is billed in Tasks, separately and predictably.

Pay For What You Ingest

Splunk Observability Cloud bills per-host for IM and APM regardless of how much data each host produces. Splunk Cloud Platform bills per-GB ingested, with Metrics Pipeline Management able to drop metrics post-ingest but only in Enterprise tier. RUM bills per session, Synthetic bills per check.

Agent0 — autonomous production AI, proactive by default

Agent0 scans the entire environment every 60 seconds. Before an alert fires, Agent0 has already analyzed services for error rates, latency anomalies, memory pressure, deployment regressions, and alert coverage.

Splunk AI Troubleshooting Agent — reactive on alert, plan not PR

Splunk's AI Troubleshooting Agent (GA in Observability Cloud and AppDynamics) launches when a Splunk alert or anomaly detector fires. Services with no Splunk detector configured are invisible to it. It produces a root-cause summary and a human-verified remediation plan.

Why choose Dash0 vs. Splunk Observability?

Features

Easy to set up and use

Open standards for alerts and dashboards

Full resource-based context and navigation

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Proactive environment scanning

Transparent pricing

Telemetry spam filter

OpenTelemetry-native

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AI improved logs

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Alert coverage gap detection

Any MCP connector

Triage root cause analysis

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Integration hub

Infrastructure as code

SIEM

Autonomous investigation

Task-based AI pricing

Frontend observability in same data lake

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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.

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.

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.