# cloudflare-workers-observability

A skill for Cloudflare Workers observability: structured logging, Analytics Engine, Tail Workers, metrics and alerting. Useful when a worker fails in production and you can't see why.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 302 installs · ★ 236
- Author: secondsky
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/cloudflare-workers/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability

## What it does

The skill walks through observability for a worker end to end: from `console.log` up to Tail Workers, Analytics Engine, Logpush and trace events. It ships TypeScript templates — a logger factory that stamps every entry with a `requestId`, a `Logger` class with levels and redaction, Analytics Engine data points, and a `tail()` handler that consumes logs from other workers.

A table covers eight common failures: logs missing from the dashboard, messages cut off at 128KB, a Tail Worker that never fires because the binding name doesn't match `wrangler.jsonc`, writes to Analytics Engine that silently fail. The rules are blunt: emit JSON instead of plain text, attach request context to every entry, strip tokens and PII, sample high-volume request logs in production.

One thing to check first: logging only works if `observability.enabled` is set in `wrangler.jsonc`, along with `head_sampling_rate`. Skip that and the dashboard stays empty while you assume the worker is fine. The skill installs into six platforms, but the config and code samples target Workers specifically.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add secondsky/claude-skills --skill cloudflare-workers-observability -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add secondsky/claude-skills --skill cloudflare-workers-observability -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add secondsky/claude-skills --skill cloudflare-workers-observability -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install secondsky/claude-skills cloudflare-workers-observability
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add secondsky/claude-skills --skill cloudflare-workers-observability -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills --path plugins/cloudflare-workers/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add secondsky/claude-skills --skill cloudflare-workers-observability -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/cloudflare-workers/skills/cloudflare-workers-observability/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- add structured logging to a worker with a requestId on every entry
- set up a Tail Worker to collect production logs
- write business metrics to Analytics Engine with writeDataPoint
- redact tokens and PII before logs leave the worker
- debug why logs never show up in the Cloudflare dashboard

## Example prompts
- add structured logging to my Cloudflare Worker with a requestId and token redaction
- set up a Tail Worker that receives logs and filters out errors
- record response time as a metric in Analytics Engine using the ANALYTICS binding

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: cloudflare-workers-observability
description: Cloudflare Workers observability with logging, Analytics Engine, Tail Workers, metrics, and alerting. Use for monitoring, debugging, tracing, or encountering log parsing, metric aggregation, alert configuration errors.
license: MIT
---

# Cloudflare Workers Observability

Production-grade observability for Cloudflare Workers: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.

## Quick Start

```typescript
// Structured logging with context
export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext): Promise<Response> {
    const requestId = crypto.randomUUID();
    const logger = createLogger(requestId, env);

    try {
      logger.info('Request received', { method: request.method, url: request.url });

      const result = await handleRequest(request, env);

      logger.info('Request completed', { status: result.status });
      return result;
    } catch (error) {
      logger.error('Request failed', { error: error.message, stack: error.stack });
      throw error;
    }
  }
};

// Simple logger factory
function createLogger(requestId: string, env: Env) {
  return {
    info: (msg: string, data?: object) => console.log(JSON.stringify({ level: 'info', requestId, msg, ...data, timestamp: Date.now() })),
    error: (msg: string, data?: object) => console.error(JSON.stringify({ level: 'error', requestId, msg, ...data, timestamp: Date.now() })),
    warn: (msg: string, data?: object) => console.warn(JSON.stringify({ level: 'warn', requestId, msg, ...data, timestamp: Date.now() })),
  };
}
```

## Critical Rules

1. **Always use structured JSON logging** - Plain text logs are hard to parse and aggregate
2. **Include request context** - Request ID, method, path in every log entry
3. **Never log sensitive data** - Redact tokens, passwords, PII from logs
4. **Use appropriate log levels** - ERROR for failures, WARN for recoverable issues, INFO for operations
5. **Sample high-volume logs** - Use 1-10% sampling for request logs in production

## Observability Components

| Component | Purpose | When to Use |
|-----------|---------|-------------|
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