8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

Today, we’re launching eight major updates that bring your logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and exporting into one observability platform, with simpler and more predictable pricing.

One observability platform for all of Cloudflare

Understanding an issue often requires data from more than one Cloudflare product. A spike in 5xx responses could come from a Worker, from your origin, or from Cloudflare failing to connect to your origin globally or regionally. But investigating it today requires knowing which product owns each signal and how to query it.

Observability should be a platform-wide capability: it should reflect how applications actually behave and give you the complete context needed to resolve an issue. Over the coming months, you’ll see more Cloudflare products, datasets, and workflows become part of this shared observability platform, with more consistent pricing, product experiences, and features. These eight updates are the first step into a more unified Observability problem.

1. Investigate all your logs in one place

The new Logs home combines Workers Observability (for debugging Workers applications and its connected resources) with Log Explorer (for searching across security logs). You can now choose from log datasets like HTTP events, firewall events, Workers, Containers, R2, and AI Gateway, and use the same investigative tools and capabilities for each.

Start with an increase in request latency, group it by hostname or data center, narrow the results to affected paths, and inspect individual requests by Ray ID. If the investigation leads to another Cloudflare product, switch datasets without leaving Logs. Support for querying across multiple datasets is coming soon, making it possible to connect related events across products in a single query.

You can query your logs with raw SQL or with built-in filters to narrow down on specific events. Create visualizations with natural language, and easily investigate and understand detected anomalies.