Cloudflare Log Explorer is now GA, providing native observability and forensics

What this post added

This post announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a new product providing native observability and forensics within the Cloudflare dashboard. It highlights benefits such as reduced cost and complexity, faster detection and triage, accelerated investigations with full context, and minimal recovery time. Key features include custom dashboards with natural language chart creation and AI assistance, expert-curated dashboard templates, a streamlined Log Search with SQL interface, saved queries for collaboration, and upcoming custom alerting and flexible log retention. The post also details the underlying architecture of Log Explorer, consisting of ingestors, compactors, and queriers, built on Cloudflare R2 storage.