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Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...

blog.cloudflare.comAnnouncing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open betaCloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required
Tim Fish
@timfish.dev

So nice! How long until Cloudflare has its own OTLP endpoint to collect traces from the front-end and becomes a full observability vendor?

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Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

Our focus is going to be on building this out for the foreseeable, but this is definitely something we've thrown around as a future direction. Frontend o11y is a complicated beast though. I need to spend some time exploring what's possible there

Tim Fish
@timfish.dev

Yeah, nobody really wants to use otel in the front end because the bundle impact is awful. Otel architecture was never designed to be small or simple or minify!

Jeremy Morrell
@jeremymorrell.dev

I have thoughts here that need a blog post :) I don't think otel's ideas are incompatible with the frontend or that it has to be as big as it is. OTel hasn't moved fast enough here. There is a new SIG working on this though, so maybe!