Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform

Reconstructing what the edge actually did to a request has always been the worst part of debugging a Cloudflare config. Traces (open beta) records every step - security rules, transforms, cache decisions, routing, Worker execution, origin - as spans in one timeline, auto-instrumented, with W3C traceparent propagation and OTLP export to whatever backend you already run. Free tier gets 0.5 GB/day and 7-day retention from December 1.