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Feature

Always-on tracing for production and preview traffic

Always-on tracing continuously collects traces from production and preview traffic, allowing you to debug real user requests without reproducing them. Control trace collection with sampling rules scoped to environments and paths, pay only for what you trace, and view traces in Logs or via the CLI.

With always-on tracing, you can now debug your real user requests without reproducing them.

Always-on tracing continuously collects traces from your production and preview traffic. Unlike , which only captures requests from your own browser, it samples your live traffic. session tracing

You control what's collected with sampling rules. Each rule sets a trace rate for an environment (All, Production, or Preview), optionally scoped to a path prefix like . Nothing is collected until you add a rule, so you pay only for what you choose to trace. /checkout

Infrastructure and outbound fetch spans are captured automatically. To add framework and custom spans, instrument your app with .@vercel/otel

To view a trace, open the Logs or run .vercel traces get <request-id>

Always-on tracing is is now in beta and available to teams on all plans. Tracing is priced at $0.50 per 1M span units. Traces follow your runtime log retention: 1 hour on Hobby, 1 day on Pro and 3 days on Enterprise.

Get started by adding a rule in or from the settings icon in . Learn more in the .Settings → TracingLogsdocumentation

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