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title: "8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability"
description: "Cloudflare announced eight major updates unifying logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data export into one observability platform with simplified pricing. The new Logs home combines Workers Observability and Log Explorer, letting users query datasets like HTTP events, firewall events, Workers, and R2 using SQL or filters. Cloudflare Traces, now in open beta, provides request-level visibility across security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Workers, and origin, with OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace context propagation. A unified SQL API lets humans and agents query telemetry across Cloudflare products, and custom alerts can be set on any dataset using threshold, anomaly, or SLO conditions. Pricing shifts to a volume-based model for ingested and stored logs and traces, effective December 1, 2026, with free tier at 0.5 GB ingestion per day and paid plans starting at 50 GB ingestion per billing cycle."
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# 8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

[Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/company/cloudflare) · Sahidya Devadoss · Oct 2, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Cloudflare announced eight major updates unifying logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data export into one observability platform with simplified pricing. The new Logs home combines Workers Observability and Log Explorer, letting users query datasets like HTTP events, firewall events, Workers, and R2 using SQL or filters. Cloudflare Traces, now in open beta, provides request-level visibility across security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Workers, and origin, with OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace context propagation. A unified SQL API lets humans and agents query telemetry across Cloudflare products, and custom alerts can be set on any dataset using threshold, anomaly, or SLO conditions. Pricing shifts to a volume-based model for ingested and stored logs and traces, effective December 1, 2026, with free tier at 0.5 GB ingestion per day and paid plans starting at 50 GB ingestion per billing cycle.

## Context

Cloudflare’s observability was previously fragmented across multiple products, requiring users to know which product owned each signal and how to query it. The company is now unifying logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and exporting into a single platform with consistent pricing and query interfaces.

## Approach / What changed

Cloudflare is launching eight updates: a unified Logs home, end-to-end tracing in open beta, a unified SQL API, volume-based pricing, custom alerts, domain analytics with 30-day retention, custom dashboards, and Logpush on self-serve plans. These are built around OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and SQL to provide standard interfaces.

## Takeaways

- The new observability pricing model is based on volume ingested and stored, not event count, and takes effect December 1, 2026, with free tier at 0.5 GB ingestion per day and paid plans starting at 50 GB ingestion per billing cycle.
- Cloudflare Traces provides request-level visibility across security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Workers, and origin handling, and supports OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace context propagation.
- The unified SQL API allows querying telemetry across Cloudflare products using a single SQL dialect, authentication model, and API, accessible via CLI, MCP server, or native Workers binding.

## FAQ

### When does the new observability pricing take effect?

The new volume-based pricing for ingested and stored logs and traces takes effect December 1, 2026, and will apply across all plans. Cloudflare will notify customers before the change.

### How can I query observability data across Cloudflare products?

You can use the new unified SQL API, which provides a single SQL dialect, authentication model, and API for querying telemetry across Cloudflare. It is accessible via the Cloudflare CLI, an MCP server, or a native Workers binding.

### What is included in the free tier of the new pricing?

The free tier includes 0.5 GB of ingestion per day with 7 days retention. Additional usage is not available on the free plan.

**Tags:** [Cloudflare](https://yomu.fyi/topic/cloudflare), [Logs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/logs), [Observability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/observability), [SQL](https://yomu.fyi/topic/sql), [Tracing](https://yomu.fyi/topic/tracing)

- Source: [Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-observability-platform)
- Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/one-observability-platform
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-10-02T15:00:16.587Z

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