Dash0 Makes Continuous Profiling Generally Available Following Polar Signals Acquisition

SALT LAKE CITY -- Dash0 this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 announced the general availability of Profiling in Dash0, a continuous profiler that measures CPU and memory for every process in a Kubernetes cluster, or on any other Linux host, virtual machine or bare metal server, with no code changes. The profiler also accepts any profile sent in the OpenTelemetry profiling format.

The launch comes 12 weeks after Dash0 acquired Polar Signals, the Berlin-based company behind the open source Parca project, and makes code-level profiles a native signal alongside traces, logs and metrics. Dash0 said the profiler runs on every node all the time, with overhead that Polar Signals measured at under 1% even under heavy CPU load, so profiles from the moment an incident began are already available.

From Trace to Line of Code

An eBPF agent on each node profiles every process in languages including Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP and .NET. CPU profiles show where compute goes down to the function and line, while memory profiles show which call paths allocate and which allocations stay live. Dash0 links eBPF profiles to the traces they belong to, so engineers can open the profile for a slow span and see which functions consumed the time. The company’s Agent0 and coding agents such as Claude Code can read profiles through Dash0’s MCP server.

“Every team running on Kubernetes can now see which line of code is behind a CPU spike or a memory leak, right next to the trace and the log that told them something was wrong,” said Mirko Novakovic, CEO and co-founder of Dash0.

Open Source Ties and Pricing

Polar Signals engineers contribute to the OpenTelemetry Profiling Working Group, whose profiles signal entered alpha in March 2026, and to the open source OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler, and Parca remains open source. Profiling is available now to all Dash0 customers for $0.60 per million samples, and new users can try it through a 14-day free trial.