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Introducing Trace Drains on the Vercel Marketplace

Vercel ships native trace drains to 4 observability platforms. Here's why your deployment pipeline just got faster.

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Why it matters

Vercel expands its developer platform with native integrations for observability and debugging, reducing friction for teams building AI applications that require real-time performance monitoring and evaluation data streaming.

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10 to know
  1. Trace Drain API now live on Vercel Marketplace

  2. Native integrations with Braintrust, Dash0, Statsig, and Kubiks

  3. Supports traces, logs, and evaluation data streaming

  4. Available to Pro and Enterprise customers

  5. More providers coming soon

  6. Eliminates manual setup for observability tooling

  7. Vercel Trace Drains API now live

  8. Native integrations: Braintrust, Dash0, Statsig, Kubiks (more coming)

  9. Traces and evaluation data streaming support

  10. Feature launched October 15, 2025

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Publisher excerpt: You can now use to send traces and logs from your projects to your preferred Marketplace observability providers with native integrations, including , , , and with more providers coming soon.Vercel DrainsBraintrustDash0StatsigKubiks This integration allows developers to stream traces and evaluation…
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