I wholeheartedly agree. The lack of transparency is CloudFlare's single largest problem from my perspective. I really wish the analytics package offered more than just a few pretty aggregate charts. Insight into failed requests to my backend servers would be a major help in troubleshooting, and with integration into their API, could serve as great early warning for when things are going wrong at the CDN level.
I'd also love to see the option of periodic uploads of raw traffic logs to an S3 bucket or similar. Something akin to how AWS CloudFront handles raw logs. I believe raw logs are currently available on their enterprise packages, but this seems like basic functionality (that would provide much of the needed transparency) and should be included in all of the paid plans.
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I wholeheartedly agree. The lack of transparency is CloudFlare's single largest problem from my perspective. I really wish the analytics package offered more than just a few pretty aggregate charts. Insight into failed requests to my backend servers would be a major help in troubleshooting, and with integration into their API, could serve as great early warning for when things are going wrong at the CDN level.
I'd also love to see the option of periodic uploads of raw traffic logs to an S3 bucket or similar. Something akin to how AWS CloudFront handles raw logs. I believe raw logs are currently available on their enterprise packages, but this seems like basic functionality (that would provide much of the needed transparency) and should be included in all of the paid plans.