Dash0 – Dev-Friendly OpenTelemetry Observability with Open Standards
Hey HN! After building an observability software (Instana) and selling it to IBM, I wanted to approach observability differently this time—simpler, more open, and built with developers like me in mind. That’s why I started Dash0. Dash0 is natively built on OpenTelemetry, so logs, metrics, and traces are handled without extra hoops. You can send data via OTLP directly, through an OpenTelemetry Collector, or use our open-source Kubernetes operator to get started quickly. I didn’t want a tool that forces people into proprietary systems, so Dash0 supports PromQL for querying and alerting and…
Dash0 – Dev-Friendly OpenTelemetry Observability with Open Standards launched on December 10, 2024 with 14 votes, #1,097 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Dash0 is an observability platform built on OpenTelemetry standards for collecting and querying logs, metrics, and traces. It supports OTLP data ingestion, includes a Kubernetes operator for quick setup, and uses open standards like PromQL and Perses rather than proprietary systems. Developers can reuse existing Prometheus queries and alerts without modification. The platform exposes logging and tracing data through PromQL, treating them as first-class query subjects alongside metrics.
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From the sources
Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
Software is now built by AI and run by AI. Dash0 is how you stay in control. We watch the agents writing your code, see everything happening in production, and fix problems automatically, often before anyone notices. You're shipping 2× more code but creating 3× more incidents. AI-speed output flooded a system built for human-paced development. Incidents per PR are up 243%. Lead time to production is up 480%. Engineers spend more time responding to failures than building. Better dashboards, cheaper storage, a chat box on top of your data. None of it closes the loop from production back to where the code was written. What breaks in production does not teach the agents that built it. AI coding…from dash0.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! After building an observability software (Instana) and selling it to IBM, I wanted to approach observability differently this time—simpler, more open, and built with developers like me in mind. That’s why I started Dash0. Dash0 is natively built on OpenTelemetry, so logs, metrics, and traces are handled…
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