Human Native is joining Cloudflare
2026-01-15
Cloudflare acquires Human Native, an AI data marketplace specialising in transforming content into searchable and useful data, to accelerate work building new economic models for the Internet....
Data
Announcing support for GROUP BY, SUM, and other aggregation queries in R2 SQL
2025-12-18
Cloudflare’s R2 SQL, a distributed query engine, now supports aggregations. Explore how we built distributed GROUP BY execution, using scatter-gather and shuffling strategies to run analytics directly over your R2 Data Catalog....
R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine
2025-09-25
R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine....
Building Jetflow: a framework for flexible, performant data pipelines at Cloudflare
2025-07-23
Faced with a data-ingestion challenge at a massive scale, Cloudflare's Business Intelligence team built a new framework called Jetflow....
Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data
2025-01-27
Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind our approach and some of the designs of ...
Cloudflare incident on November 14, 2024, resulting in lost logs
2024-11-26
On November 14, 2024, Cloudflare experienced a Cloudflare Logs outage, impacting the majority of customers using these products. During the ~3.5 hours that these services were impacted, about 55% of the logs we normally send to customers were not sent and were lost. The details of what went wrong and why are interesting both for customers and practitioners....
A look inside the Cloudflare ML Ops platform
2023-12-07
To help our team continue to innovate efficiently, our MLOps effort has collaborated with Cloudflare’s data scientists to implement the following best practices...
How Cloudflare instruments services using Workers Analytics Engine
2022-11-18
Learn how Cloudflare uses our own Workers Analytics Engine product to capture analytics about our own products!...
The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0
2022-09-30
Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share....
Integrating Network Analytics Logs with your SIEM dashboard
2022-05-17
We’re excited to announce the availability of Network Analytics Logs for maximum visibility into L3/4 traffic and DDoS attacks...
Introducing the Customer Metadata Boundary
2021-12-07
Cloudflare’s Data Localisation Suite now helps customers localise metadata about their HTTP traffic....
The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar
2021-07-12
Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020....
Using data science and machine learning for improved customer support
2020-06-15
In this blog post we’ll explore three tricks that can be used for data science that helped us solve real problems for our customer support group and our customers. Two for natural language processing in a customer support context and one for identifying attack Internet attack traffic....
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
2020-01-27
An analysis, based on CDNJS data, of when and if JavaScript libraries are updated after being installed onto websites....
Logpush: the Easy Way to Get Your Logs to Your Cloud Storage
2019-02-25
Today, we’re excited to announce a new way to get your logs: Logpush, a tool for uploading your logs to your cloud storage provider, such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. It’s now available in Early Access for Enterprise domains....
HTTP Analytics for 6M requests per second using ClickHouse
2018-03-06
One of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:...
Will Data Destroy Democracy?
2017-09-15
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and Darren Bolding, CTO, Cambridge Analytica Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare ...
Data Transfers Post-Brexit: Smoothing the Transition
2017-04-13
The average internet user consumes vast amounts of data on a daily basis but rarely – unless an avid follower of Max Schrems - thinks about how the data flows or the mechanisms and legal arrangements in place to make it all happen....
More data, more data
2016-07-12
The life of a request to CloudFlare begins and ends at the edge. But the afterlife! Like Catullus to Bithynia, the log generated by an HTTP request or a DNS query has much, much further to go....
iOS 9 — How did the launch really go?
2015-09-22
On September 16 2015 at 10:00AM PST, Apple released their latest update to the iPhone: iOS 9. For several days after the announcement, ISPs and customers reported problems downloading iOS 9 due to overloaded servers....
