Cloudflare Traces

Cloudflare Traces provides end-to-end observability by automatically capturing how requests move through Cloudflare’s platform, including security rules, transformations, cache, routing, and Worker execution. It enables developers to visualize the entire request lifecycle and extend these traces through their own origin services using OpenTelemetry standards.

Cloudflare Traces provides end-to-end observability by automatically capturing how requests move through Cloudflare’s platform, including security rules, transformations, cache, routing, and Worker execution. It enables developers to visualize the entire request lifecycle and extend these traces through their own origin services using OpenTelemetry standards.

• 01Automatic Platform Instrumentation: Automatically captures supported platform operations (security rules, cache, routing, etc.) without requiring custom code.
• 02OpenTelemetry Support: Exports spans via OTLP to any compatible observability backend and supports W3C traceparent header propagation.
• 03Granular Trace Rules: Allows setting a baseline sampling rate for continuous monitoring while overriding it for specific high-interest traffic patterns.
• 04End-to-End Visibility: Connects the dots between Cloudflare configurations and downstream service performance.