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Cloudflare Traces follows requests across platform operations and origins

blog.cloudflare.com by Mar Witek et al. 6 min read Editor score 7/10

Cloudflare Traces adds request timelines across supported security rules, transformations, cache decisions, routing, Workers, and origin handling, with sampling controls and OTLP export. Engineers can trace failures across platform boundaries without relying on a single service’s telemetry.

What: Cloudflare Traces adds request-level tracing across supported Cloudflare operations and services beyond Workers.
How: Each supported step becomes a span with timing, outcome, and attributes; Trace Rules can override baseline sampling.
Why it matters: Engineers can follow requests across platform operations and origins, investigate bottlenecks, and export spans via OTLP.

A request trace follows supported operations through Cloudflare to origin handling. Sketched from the article's own text.

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