Cloudflare introduces local tracing for Wrangler dev tools
Cloudflare announced local tracing support integrated directly into Wrangler dev and Vite dev servers. The new feature automatically captures OpenTelemetry traces and exposes them through a queryable Local Explorer API, allowing developers to inspect request flows and debug edge applications entirely in their local environment.
Integrated local tracing drastically improves developer velocity by eliminating observability blind spots during local edge development.
- –Automatic OpenTelemetry trace capture in local dev environments eliminates complex setup overhead.
- –Queryable Local Explorer API enables immediate inspection of request lifecycles and errors locally.
- –Significantly speeds up root cause analysis for 500 errors and performance bottlenecks prior to production deployment.
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2026-08-04
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2026-08-04
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