Log Explorer

Investigate and Resolve with Native Observability

Cloudflare Log Explorer brings observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard, providing a comprehensive and contextualized view of your environment. With Log Explorer, customers can efficiently search Cloudflare logs using familiar SQL queries, detect and diagnose issues quickly, and seamlessly transition from investigation to action.

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Efficient Investigation and Troubleshooting

Log Explorer allows customers to efficiently search Cloudflare logs using familiar SQL queries, enabling quick detection and diagnosis of issues. With Log Explorer, customers can seamlessly transition from investigation to action, reducing mean time to detect and respond to security incidents.

Comprehensive Visibility and Context

Log Explorer provides a comprehensive and contextualized view of your environment, leveraging Cloudflare's vast global network. It writes each batch of log records to a Parquet file in R2, optimized for efficient data storage and retrieval. This enables organizations to gain deeper insights into their environment and make data-driven decisions.

Streamlined Collaboration and Query Management

Log Explorer enables customers to save time and collaborate with saved queries. Additionally, features like Custom Alerting and flexible retention are being actively developed to further enhance the experience, allowing teams to work more efficiently and effectively.

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Detect and Diagnose Security Incidents

Security teams can use Log Explorer to detect and diagnose security incidents, such as Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks, and correlate them with other security events like malicious content uploads, source IP addresses, and JA3/JA4 fingerprints. This enables quick identification of high-risk incidents, such as compromised machines spreading malware.

Monitor API Security and Performance

Log Explorer allows users to monitor the data transfer and exceptions of API endpoints within their application, as well as see timing data for API endpoints and error rates. This helps developers optimize application performance and identify potential security issues, ensuring the integrity of their APIs.

Identify and Respond to Malware Threats

Log Explorer can be used to monitor logs from Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway to identify malware, such as Katz Stealer, by analyzing DNS queries and HTTP requests from users within the company. This helps organizations detect and respond to potential threats, minimizing the risk of a security breach.

Investigate Compromised Systems and Contain Threats

After diagnosing a security issue, analysts can use Log Explorer to investigate whether an attacker accessed and compromised other internal systems by searching logs from Zero Trust services, using context such as compromised IP addresses. This enables organizations to contain threats and prevent further damage.

Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated

Built on systems powering 20% of the Internet, Log Explorer runs on the same infrastructure Cloudflare uses to build Cloudflare. Enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance are standard.

Compute

Browser Run Automated browsers

Containers Any language, anywhere

Durable Objects Stateful compute

Sandboxes Secure code execution

Workers Global serverless functions

Workers for Platforms Programmable Platform Solutions

Workflows Process orchestration

Storage

D1 Serverless SQL

Data Platform Ingest, Catalog & Query

Hyperdrive Global databases

Queues Message processing

R2 Egress-free storage

KV Ultra-fast key-value storage

Agents Build stateful AI agents

AI Gateway AI observability

AI Search Instant retrieval

Vectorize Vector database

Workers AI Edge AI models

Security

DDoS Protection Mitigation Solutions

Rate Limiting Abuse prevention

SSL Secure Your Site with SSL

Turnstile A CAPTCHA Replacement Solution

WAF Web Application Firewall

Network & Content Delivery

Bot Management Block bad bots

CDN Faster delivery & caching

DNS Fast DNS

Load Balancing Zero downtime

TURN / SFU Real-time infra

SASE / Zero Trust

SASE Cloudflare SASE platform

Access Safe access to private applications

Data Loss Prevention Protect sensitive data

Secure Web Gateway DNS filtering & Secure Browsing

WAN Cloud-delivered enterprise networking

Mesh Agents private network

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