Cloudflare Announces General Availability of Log Explorer

Cloudflare has announced the general availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, to help give businesses instant access to critical security and performance insights across their IT environments.

Now, customers can analyse, investigate, and monitor for security attacks with log line level insights across their entire business–natively within the Cloudflare Dashboard–eliminating the need to forward logs to third party security analysis tools, saving security teams time and reducing overall cost.

Security and operations teams rely on logs for critical insights, which enables them to troubleshoot issues, investigate security incidents, and optimise application and infrastructure performance, reliability, and security.

“The log management market has been unnecessarily complex and expensive for far too long. We think businesses deserve better, and thanks to the scale of our platform, we’re uniquely positioned to deliver a faster, more unified way for businesses to gain visibility and understand all the risks to their business.

“Cloudflare already detects threats faster than any solution on the market. Now, combining our threat detection capabilities with native log management, we are one step closer to allowing customers to get rid of certain third-party tools, like SIEMs,” CJ Desai, President of Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, said.

Log Explorer has been previewed by over 500 hundred customers, allowing them to investigate issues, act faster and reduce log storage costs–without needing to leave the Cloudflare dashboard.

Now, with the general availability, Cloudflare is expanding these capabilities to anyone, allowing business to: 

• Reduce the cost and complexity of third party tooling: One-click setup makes it easy to start analyzing Cloudflare logs instantly—no pipelines, shipping, or tuning required.
• Investigate security and performance issues from a single source: Businesses can search HTTP, security event, and Zero Trust logs natively within Cloudflare. 
• Fix problems faster with an in-dashboard response: Organizations can take action instantly to reduce impact—all without leaving the Cloudflare dashboard.
• Meet compliance requirements with flexible retention: With Log Explorer, organizations will soon be able to easily set custom log retention policies to satisfy audit, compliance, or internal governance needs.