Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform
Cloudflare has launched a new observability tool called Cloudflare Traces to visualize request lifecycles across the platform. It enables end-to-end request tracking through security rules, cache, Workers, and external origin infrastructure.
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Developers, DevOps engineers, and enterprise platform architects.
It significantly reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) for complex distributed systems by providing a single pane of glass for debugging request failures or latency bottlenecks across the edge-to-origin boundary.
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Cloudflare Traces provides a unified observability layer that bridges the gap between Cloudflare's edge network and backend origin services. By integrating distributed tracing, it allows developers to inspect the specific path a request takes through the Cloudflare stack—including WAF rules, transformation logic, and Workers execution—and correlate that data with downstream services. This addresses the 'black box' problem often associated with edge-compute platforms, providing granular visibility into latency and execution flow.