January 2020 Summaries

Log Drains are a new feature introduced by ZEIT, allowing users to collect logs from their deployments and forward them to archival, search, and alerting services using HTTPS, HTTP, TLS, and TCP protocols. The feature supports three types of log drains: JSON, NDJSON, and Syslog, as well as integrations with LogDNA and Datadog. With Log Drains, users can persistently store logs, create alerts based on logging patterns, generate metrics and graphs from logs data, and easily integrate their deployments with third-party services. The feature is available in the ZEIT Integrations marketplace, where users can install and configure integrations to forward their logs to services such as LogDNA, Logflare, and Datadog.

Vercel released several updates in January 2020, including automatic deployment of the latest Node.js version for new deployments, and changes to domain management, such as making all production domains unavailable when deleting a project and automatically deleting unconfigured domains after 7 days. The platform also introduced new endpoints for retrieving real-time stream of requests and failed requests for a deployment. Additionally, Vercel improved its CLI tool by not uploading files starting with .env, unless specifically named .env, and enhanced support for adding new frameworks to the platform. These updates aim to improve the speed, reliability, and developer experience on the platform.