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Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability

Vercel Sandbox adds memory observability—P75, P95, and CLI metrics now available to catch runaway functions before they fail.

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Why it matters

Developers building on Vercel Sandbox can now measure and alert on memory usage patterns across sandboxes, closing a gap in production observability for serverless workloads. Actionable for teams running compute-intensive tasks and needing to optimize cold-start or resource ceiling risk.

The key facts

11 to know
  1. Memory Usage card reports average, P75, and P95 memory across sandboxes

  2. Available in dashboard, CLI (vercel metrics), and Observability query builder

  3. memoryUsedBytes measure on sandbox usage event enables custom queries and alerts

  4. Y-axis auto-scales to sandbox memory limit; 85% threshold reference line added

  5. CLI returns metric, reporting period, measurement interval, project, min/max/avg graph

  6. Feature available across sandbox overview, project, and team-level pages

  7. Memory usage reported as average, P75, P95 across sandboxes

  8. Available in dashboard, CLI (vercel metrics command), and Observability query builder

  9. Memory ceiling visualization with 85% reference line on sandbox detail page

  10. memoryUsedBytes measure added to sandbox usage event for custom queries and alerts

  11. CLI access via vercel metrics under vercel.sandbox.memory_used_bytes; --all flag for team-level aggregate

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: now includes memory usage data.Vercel Sandbox observability You can access sandbox memory usage data in the dashboard and through the CLI via the command. vercel metrics The Memory Usage card reports average, P75, and P95 memory across your sandboxes, alongside the existing CPU usage and data…
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