01 — Pricing
A bill you can work out from your host count
APM and infrastructure are priced per host, not per span or data point, so you can estimate the month from the number of hosts you run.
APM and infrastructure priced by host, not by every span you send.
Atatus prices APM and infrastructure per host, sets up with language agents or OpenTelemetry, and adds database and security monitoring to the same platform.
7Languages with Atatus APM agents
OTLPOpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs accepted
9Global locations for uptime and API checks
14 daysFree trial, no credit card
Why teams compare Atatus and Dash0
Dash0 is built for OpenTelemetry teams. Its bill grows with your telemetry.
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native platform that charges for each signal you send: every span, log record and web event is billed when it is ingested and again for what you store, and metrics are billed per data point. So the bill moves with traffic, retries and every new service, and AI work through Agent0 is metered in credits on top. Dash0 also relies on OpenTelemetry for setup: its Kubernetes operator instruments Java, Node.js and .NET automatically, while Go, PHP and services outside Kubernetes need OpenTelemetry set up by your team. Atatus bills APM and infrastructure per host, gives you language agents if you don't run OpenTelemetry yet, accepts OTLP if you do, and adds database, network and security monitoring.
02 — Setup
Traces from every service, in or out of Kubernetes
Atatus agents for Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go and .NET give you traces, errors and N+1 query detection on Kubernetes, VMs and bare servers alike, including the PHP and Go services Dash0's operator doesn't instrument. Already on OpenTelemetry? Point your SDKs or Collector at Atatus instead.
03 — Coverage
Database and security monitoring in the same platform
Database monitoring with explain plans for seven engines, SIEM with MITRE ATT&CK mapped rules, file integrity monitoring and network monitoring sit next to your APM and logs.
Atatus is the right choice when you need to
Know when Atatus fits your team better
Six places where Atatus gives your team more than Dash0, for a bill you can plan.
Budget from your host count
If a per-span, per-log-record bill is hard to forecast for your traffic, per-host APM and infrastructure pricing is easier to plan.
Trace services outside Kubernetes too
Atatus agents work the same on Kubernetes, VMs and bare servers, and cover PHP and Go, which Dash0's operator doesn't instrument automatically.
Find the slow function and the N+1 query
Code-level traces, stack traces, N+1 detection, and continuous profiling that shows which function uses the CPU, for Go, Java and Node.js.
Tune queries with explain plans
Database monitoring for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB and more, with query samples, explain plans and deadlock detection.
Watch for attacks in the same tool
SIEM with MITRE ATT&CK mapped rules, file integrity monitoring and security audit logs, next to your APM and logs.
Keep data on your own servers
The Atatus on-premises edition runs inside your network, including air-gapped environments.
Feature comparison
Atatus vs Dash0
How Atatus and Dash0 compare in the areas teams ask about most. Pick a tab.
Atatus Platform
APM, RUM, session replay, logs, infrastructure, Kubernetes, database, network and security monitoring
Language agents for 7 runtimes, plus OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest
Hosted SaaS, or on-premises inside your own network
AI root cause analysis and an MCP server for AI coding assistants
SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified; HIPAA and GDPR compliant
Dash0 Platform
Infrastructure, Kubernetes, APM, logs, website monitoring and synthetics
No proprietary agent: every service is instrumented with OpenTelemetry
No dedicated database monitoring or SIEM product; database metrics come through OpenTelemetry integrations
Hosted service only, on AWS and GCP; just the SignalControl Edge collector can run in your cluster
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA, but ISO 27001 still in progress (expected Q1 2027)
Agent0 AI agents and an MCP server, with AI usage billed per credit
Customers
Powering better performance for modern teams
"Solid Product even better support." The integration path is incredibly simple/easy and the overall interface is very intuitive. That said, I had a handful of odd use cases that the support team was incredibly responsive in helping me work through.
Questions
Questions teams ask before switching from Dash0
Straight answers on cost, setup and coverage.
Both are full-stack observability platforms with APM, logs, infrastructure, Kubernetes, real user monitoring and synthetics. Dash0 is OpenTelemetry-native and charges per signal: per million spans, log records, web events and metric data points. Atatus offers its own language agents as well as OpenTelemetry ingest, prices APM and infrastructure per host, and adds database monitoring, SIEM and an on-premises edition.
Dash0 bills every span, log record and web event when it is ingested ($0.06 per million), then again for the ones you store ($0.54 per million for 30 days). Metric data points and Agent0 AI credits ($0.60 each) are billed on top. A traffic spike, a retry storm or a chatty new service all add billable signals. Atatus bills APM from $49 and infrastructure from $15 per host a month on yearly billing, so those costs follow your host count, not your traffic. Logs are from $0.75 per ingested GB.
Yes. Atatus accepts traces, metrics and logs over OTLP from OpenTelemetry SDKs or the Collector, so you change the exporter endpoint and keep your instrumentation.
Atatus AI SRE groups related alerts into one problem and tags the likely root cause, and the Atatus MCP Server gives AI assistants such as Claude Code and Cursor access to your live logs and traces.
Yes. Atatus is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified, and HIPAA and GDPR compliant. The Atatus Trust Center has the details.
14-day free trial. Full platform. No credit card required. Migration support included. Join with teams who switched from Dash0 · Average setup time: under 10 minutes
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