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Vercel Tracing is now generally available

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In short

Developers can search and inspect spans using a dedicated dashboard or the command-line interface, with a Live mode offering real-time data streaming across teams. Starting with Next.js 16.5, qualifying projects with a Node.js function receive automatic instrumentation and full request sampling after their initial build. Users who prefer not to use the automated tracking can disable it by clearing the default sampling rules in their project settings. Retention windows have also lengthened significantly, giving Hobby users three days of storage while Pro and Enterprise customers receive two full weeks.

Key points

  • Observability costs remain identical to beta rates while offering broader access across a…: Observability costs remain identical to beta rates while offering broader access across all account types.
  • Real-time streaming capabilities allow teams to isolate performance issues across specifi…: Real-time streaming capabilities allow teams to isolate performance issues across specific projects or entire organizations instantly.
  • Platform instrumentation activates by default for modern deployments, though administrato…: Platform instrumentation activates by default for modern deployments, though administrators retain the option to remove sampling rules.

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Vercel Tracing is now generally available on all plans. You can now search and inspect traces from the dashboard or the Vercel CLI, and new Next.js projects get tracing by default. Pricing is unchanged from the beta.

Copy link to headingBrowse and search traces in the dashboard

In beta, you could only open a trace per request from the Logs page. The new Traces page shows every trace and span in one place, for a project or your whole team. Switch between a Spans list and a Traces list, filter each, and search with Kibana Query Language (KQL). A Live mode streams new traces as they arrive. A query like span.name:db* AND span.duration > 500

narrows to slow database spans by name and duration.

Copy link to headingSearch traces from the CLI

The Traces page uses the same KQL as vercel traces search --query

, so a query built in the dashboard runs in the CLI unchanged. Search covers every project in your team, or one project with the --project

flag. Inspect a single trace with vercel traces inspect <request-id>

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