Cloudflare announced eight updates consolidating its observability tooling into a single platform: a combined Logs home, open-beta request tracing, a unified SQL API, new alerts, 30 days of domain analytics on every plan, custom dashboards, and Logpush now available on all self-serve plans.
The update most relevant to automated operations is the new unified SQL API, now in beta, which lets both people and agents query Workers logs, Container security events, HTTP request logs, and analytics data through one SQL dialect and authentication model. Agents can reach it through Cloudflare's new CLI (cf) or through an Observability MCP server built for this purpose. The SQL interface is also being added as a native binding inside Workers, so a Worker can query its own Analytics Engine data to meter usage, power billing, or automate incident investigation without a separate API client.
Alerts (formerly called Notifications) are getting the same treatment: custom conditions can now be defined directly against any dataset in the SQL API, with thresholds, anomaly detection, or SLO-based triggers. Webhooks, now available on every plan, can route an alert to "custom services or even your agent to begin investigating immediately," per Cloudflare.
Tracing enters open beta with request-level visibility into security rules, routing, Workers, and origin handling, supporting OpenTelemetry export and W3C trace context propagation so trace data can flow between Cloudflare and a company's own origin systems.
Pricing is also changing. Starting December 1, 2026, all ingested and stored logs and traces move to one usage-based model: Free plans get 0.5 GB of ingestion per day with 7-day retention; Paid and Enterprise plans include 50 GB of ingestion and 10 GB-month of storage per billing cycle, with additional usage billed at $0.25 per GB ingested and $0.10 per GB-month stored. Logpush, previously Enterprise-only, is now on all self-serve plans with 25 GB of free exports to Cloudflare or external destinations monthly, billed at $0.03 or $0.10 per additional GB respectively; the accompanying Transformers tool for reshaping log output before delivery is now generally available, with 1 GB free and $0.04 per additional GB.
Cloudflare says longer data retention (up to one year), expanded OpenTelemetry support in Workers, and easier metrics export are planned next.
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