Correlate logs and traces with OpenTelemetry in Vercel Log Drains
Vercel just made debugging 10x faster. Logs and traces now automatically correlate—no setup required.
Why it matters
Vercel's automatic log-to-trace correlation via OpenTelemetry reduces debugging friction for developers building AI-powered applications at scale. This infrastructure improvement matters to founders shipping production LLM apps that depend on observability for reliability.
The key facts
9 to knowVercel now auto-correlates logs with distributed traces via OpenTelemetry
Available through Datadog and Dash0 integrations
No manual configuration required for existing OTel users
Enriches logs with trace and span identifiers for root-cause analysis
Targets performance monitoring and error diagnosis in production
Feature available through Datadog and Dash0 integrations
No manual setup required—automatic for OTel-instrumented applications
Enriches logs with trace and span identifiers for debugging
Available immediately to existing log drain customers
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: Vercel now automatically correlates logs with distributed traces for customers using OpenTelemetry to instrument their applications. Traces are a way to collect data about the performance and behavior of your application and help identify the cause of performance issues, errors, and other problems.…
