Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana

This post details the implementation of a custom Prometheus exporter by Labyrinth Labs that pulls data from Cloudflare's GraphQL Analytics API. The exporter transforms Cloudflare analytics data (requests, bandwidth, cache utilization, threats, SSL usage, HTTP response codes, traffic origin by country/location, and data center performance) into Prometheus metrics. It includes design considerations (Go, API SDK, Goroutines for parallel requests), deployment instructions (Docker image, Helm chart for Kubernetes), and visualization guidance using Grafana dashboards. Future work includes integrating more analytics data like firewall, DoS, and network analytics.