Introducing Workers Analytics Engine

Cloudflare introduces Workers Analytics Engine, a new way to obtain telemetry data using Cloudflare Workers. The engine provides time series analytics built for the serverless era and uses the same technology that powers Cloudflare's analytics for millions of customers. It can be used to get telemetry about almost anything and has been adopted by internal teams at Cloudflare, such as their R2 storage product. The Analytics Engine can also be used to build custom security rules or track non-Workers related events like IoT sensor data. To use the engine, developers need to configure it in Wrangler, write data using the Workers Runtime API, and query data using SQL or GraphQL APIs. The engine is optimized for time series analytics that can be visualized using tools like Grafana. It offers benefits over traditional metrics systems such as unlimited cardinality of label values, low latency reporting, and fast queries at any timescale. A closed beta version of the Workers Analytics Engine is now available with an ambitious roadmap ahead, including support for building analytics and usage-based billing for customers.