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Cloudflare is consolidating its scattered observability tools into a single platform, bringing logs, traces, analytics and alerts together. The update includes a unified SQL API, custom dashboards and a new pricing model based on data volume that will apply from December 2026.
The new Observability platform combines Workers Observability and Log Explorer into a single Logs home, letting users investigate HTTP events, firewall logs, Workers, Containers, R2 and AI Gateway in one place. Users can switch datasets without leaving the interface and will soon be able to query across multiple datasets with raw SQL or natural language filters. Cloudflare is also launching Traces in open beta, offering a request-level view of security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, Workers and origin handling, with support for OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace context propagation.
A unified SQL API is now in beta, allowing agents and Workers to query telemetry across Cloudflare using a single dialect and authentication model. This removes the need to integrate separately with different data sources and introduces a native binding for Workers to query Analytics Engine data directly. The platform also introduces custom alerts and dashboards built from observability data, with export options via Logpush on self-serve plans.
Cloudflare is moving to a single unified Observability subscription and pricing model based on the volume of data ingested and stored, rather than an event count. The new pricing will apply across all plans starting December 1, 2026, and will cover existing Developer Platform logs, including Workers, Containers and AI Gateway, as well as all tracing data. The Free plan includes 0.5 GB of ingestion per day and 7 days of data retention, while Paid and Enterprise plans offer 50 GB of ingestion and 10 GB-month of storage per billing cycle.


