8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

Cloudflare has introduced eight observability updates intended to unify logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data exports across its platform. The release includes a consolidated Logs interface supporting datasets such as HTTP, security, Workers, Containers, R2, and AI Gateway; open-beta request tracing that follows traffic through Cloudflare to origins with OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace-context support; and a beta unified SQL API accessible to users, agents, the Cloudflare CLI, MCP server, and Workers bindings. Cloudflare is also adopting a unified ingestion- and storage-based pricing model for logs and traces beginning December 1, 2026, with free and paid usage tiers. Additional features include SQL-based custom alerts, 30 days of domain analytics retention on every plan, customizable cross-product dashboards, and Logpush availability for all self-service plans alongside SQL-based Transformers for processing exported data. Future plans include up to one year of telemetry retention, expanded OpenTelemetry support in Workers, and metrics export to OpenTelemetry-compatible destinations.

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