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Cloudflare Unifies Observability Platform with Traces and Expanded Features
Key points
- Cloudflare Traces launched in open beta for end-to-end request tracing.
- Eight major updates unify logs, traces, analytics, alerts, and dashboards.
- New features include a unified SQL API and custom alerts/dashboards.
- A single pricing model for observability data was introduced.
- Traces allow visibility into security rules, transformations, and Worker execution.
- Traces extend automatic tracing from Workers to the rest of the request path.
- Traces include cache decisions, routing, and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans.
- Traces provide timing, outcome, and attributes for each supported step.
- Traces help identify which security rule blocked a request and its evaluation time.
- Traces show if a Transform Rule rewrote a URL and its timing relative to routing.
- Traces identify which Page Rule, Snippet, or Worker handled a request and its matched route pattern.
- Traces show time distribution, like 527ms of a 539ms request for a cache miss.
- Logpush Transformers are generally available.
- Logpush is available on all self-serve plans.
- Cloudflare launched on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers and Durable Objects.
- The profiling feature was announced on October 9, 2026.
- Profiling generates interactive flamegraphs via the Workers Observability dashboard or cf CLI.
- Flamegraphs show wider sections for functions using more CPU time or memory allocations.
- Profiles can be downloaded for offline analysis.
- Profiling targets an already-running isolate, not a fresh one.
- Durable Objects support profiling a specific named instance.
Unified Observability Platform
Cloudflare announced eight significant updates to its observability platform, integrating logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data exporting into a single system. This consolidation aims to simplify the process of identifying and resolving issues by providing a unified view of data across various Cloudflare products.
The updates include a single location for exploring logs from across Cloudflare, a unified SQL API for querying Cloudflare data, and a single pricing model for observability data ingested and stored within the platform. Custom alerts and dashboards can now be built using observability data, and all domain analytics are available in one place with 30 days of data retention. Logpush, for data export, is now available on self-serve plans.
Introducing Cloudflare Traces
As part of these updates, Cloudflare introduced Traces in open beta, extending automatic request tracing beyond Workers to cover the entire request path within its platform. This feature allows users to follow requests from the Cloudflare edge to their origin, providing detailed visibility into how traffic is processed.
Traces capture supported platform operations in a request-level timeline without additional setup. Users can control which requests are traced by setting a baseline sampling rate and using Trace Rules to override it for specific traffic. The system supports end-to-end trace context propagation, accepting and forwarding W3C traceparent headers.
Detailed Request Visibility
With Cloudflare Traces, users can observe various stages of request processing, including security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, and Worker execution. This detailed insight helps in understanding the behavior of applications and diagnosing issues that might span multiple Cloudflare services or the origin.
Traces can be investigated directly within the Cloudflare dashboard, where users can view request timelines and span details. Additionally, traces can be exported using OpenTelemetry to any destination with a compatible Open Telemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint, facilitating integration with existing observability stacks.
Simplifying Troubleshooting
The integration of various observability signals into a single platform addresses the challenge of troubleshooting issues that require data from multiple Cloudflare products. Previously, investigating problems like spikes in 5xx responses necessitated knowing which product owned each signal and how to query it individually. The new unified platform aims to streamline this process.
By providing a comprehensive and integrated view, Cloudflare intends to make its platform the most observable part of a user's stack, reflecting how applications behave and offering the necessary context for effective issue resolution.
Updates
- Cloudflare launched on-demand CPU and memory profiling for Workers and Durable Objects.
- The profiling feature was announced on October 9, 2026.
- Profiling generates interactive flamegraphs via the Workers Observability dashboard or cf CLI.
- Flamegraphs show wider sections for functions using more CPU time or memory allocations.
- Profiles can be downloaded for offline analysis.
- Profiling targets an already-running isolate, not a fresh one.
- Durable Objects support profiling a specific named instance.
- Logpush Transformers are generally available.
- Logpush is available on all self-serve plans.
- Traces extend automatic tracing from Workers to the rest of the request path.
- Traces include cache decisions, routing, and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans.
- Traces provide timing, outcome, and attributes for each supported step.
- Traces help identify which security rule blocked a request and its evaluation time.
- Traces show if a Transform Rule rewrote a URL and its timing relative to routing.
- Traces identify which Page Rule, Snippet, or Worker handled a request and its matched route pattern.
- Traces show time distribution, like 527ms of a 539ms request for a cache miss.
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How outlets covered it
Cloudflare has launched on-demand CPU and memory profiling for its Workers and Durable Objects, enabling developers to identify performance bottlenecks in production environments. This feature provides interactive flamegraphs through the Workers Observability dashboard or cf CLI, allowing analysis of live execution without suspending normal request processing.
Cloudflare has made Logpush Transformers generally available, allowing users to filter, reshape, and redact logs directly within the Logpush export workflow. This feature enables teams to process logs before export, reducing the need for separate processing services and potentially lowering data volume and costs for SIEMs and analytics platforms.
Cloudflare launched Traces in open beta, providing automatic tracing for the entire request path, including security rules, caching, and Workers, as OpenTelemetry spans. This allows developers to see the full request timeline through the proxy, addressing a gap in distributed tracing for proxy-served applications.
Cloudflare introduced Traces in open beta, extending automatic request tracing beyond Workers to cover the entire request path within its platform. This new feature allows users to observe security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, and Worker execution, providing detailed visibility into how traffic is processed.
Cloudflare introduced eight updates to its observability platform, integrating logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data exporting into a single system. This aims to simplify troubleshooting by providing a unified view of data across Cloudflare products and offering more predictable pricing.