Introducing Vercel Drains: Complete observability data, anywhere

Vercel has expanded its Log Drains feature, now called Vercel Drains, to include the ability to export OpenTelemetry traces, Web Analytics events, and Speed Insights metrics, offering a unified method for streaming observability data from Vercel to existing systems like Datadog, Honeycomb, or Grafana. This enhancement allows for a more comprehensive understanding of application performance by combining logs, traces, analytics, and real-user metrics into a single pipeline, providing consistent and correlated data that enriches logs with traceId and spanId for seamless navigation from logs to distributed traces. Drains can be configured as custom HTTP endpoints for various data types or through direct integrations with vendors, facilitating automatic setup and streaming to preferred platforms, and are available on Vercel's Pro and Enterprise plans with data export billed at $0.50 per GB.