cloudflare-traces

name	cloudflare-traces
description	Query and analyze Cloudflare Workers traces through the general Cloudflare API MCP server. Use when diagnosing Workers traces, distributed tracing spans, observability events, subrequest chains, or when an agent needs Cloudflare trace data programmatically.

Cloudflare Traces

Use Cloudflare's general API MCP server only:

• MCP URL: https://mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp
• MCP server name: cloudflare-api or cloudflare
• Do not configure a separate product-specific observability endpoint.

Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/model-context-protocol/mcp-servers-for-cloudflare/

MCP Tools

Use the general Cloudflare MCP tools:

• mcp__cloudflare_api__.search
• mcp__cloudflare_api__.execute

execute requires account_id when the token can see multiple accounts. Pass it as the tool argument, not in the MCP URL.

Codemode Blocks

Use these as the code strings passed to mcp__cloudflare_api__.execute.

1. Verify trace keys:

async () => {
  return cloudflare.request({
    method: "POST",
    path: `/accounts/${accountId}/workers/observability/telemetry/keys`,
    body: {
      datasets: ["otel"],
      from: Date.parse("2026-05-06T15:37:00.000Z"),
      to: Date.parse("2026-05-06T15:40:00.000Z"),
      keyNeedle: { value: "trace", matchCase: false },
      limit: 50,
    },
  });
};

2. Fetch a trace summary with view: "traces":

async () => {
  return cloudflare.request({
    method: "POST",
    path: `/accounts/${accountId}/workers/observability/telemetry/query`,
    body: {
      queryId: "trace-summary",
      timeframe: {
        from: Date.parse("2026-05-06T15:37:00.000Z"),
        to: Date.parse("2026-05-06T15:40:00.000Z"),
      },
      view: "traces",
      limit: 20,
      parameters: {
        datasets: ["otel"],
        filters: [
          {
            key: "traceId",
            operation: "eq",
            type: "string",
            value: "250178b64271952ffb1ed1711133cf78",
          },
        ],
      },
    },
  });
};

3. Fetch spans with view: "events" and the same exact traceId filter.

4. Summarize span events by source.name and $metadata.transactionName.

Working Query

See EXAMPLES.md for the exact codemode block that returned trace 250178b64271952ffb1ed1711133cf78 from os-preview-2 with 686 spans.

If this returns no rows:

• try filter key $metadata.traceId as well as traceId
• widen the timeframe by a few minutes
• confirm account_id matches the worker's account
• query view: "events" with needle: { value: traceId } as a fallback

Report

Include trace id, service/script name, timeframe, request URL, span counts, error spans, longest repeated chain, and whether the failure surfaced to the caller.