Cloudflare Observability

This post introduces Cloudflare's future vision for observability, defining it as having three core components: monitoring, analytics, and forensics. It details how Cloudflare plans to enhance each of these areas: expanding notification types for monitoring, making the dashboard more customizable for analytics (especially for security policy validation), improving log access and storage (including on R2), and introducing tracing to provide end-to-end request lifecycle visibility. The post emphasizes the goal of providing a single pane of glass for all network activity and a unified experience across security, performance, and developer products.