The Traffic That Vanished From Network Analytics Is Back for Unified Routing!
Hey everyone, it's me, Shii-chan! Today I've got a small-but-satisfying story: traffic that had gone invisible is now visible again.
Cloudflare Changelog
developers.cloudflare.com
What was announced?
From Cloudflare's Changelog: Network Analytics is now fully supported for accounts using Unified Routing mode. This covers Cloudflare WAN and Magic Transit.
Traffic traversing Unified Routing onramps and offramps now appears with the same dimensions and filters as traffic on the standard data plane.
The story so far
There used to be a little gap here. Customers who moved their tunnels onto Unified Routing lost sight of that data plane traffic in the Network Analytics dashboard. Moving to the new routing but losing visibility along the way? Not a great trade.
This update closes that parity gap properly.
What changes
The nice part: no configuration change is required. If your account has Unified Routing enabled, analytics data is collected automatically. So the traffic that went dark after your migration simply shows up again.
For anyone monitoring their network, the big win is that "migrate = lose visibility" is no longer a worry.
Dive Deep
One thing to keep in mind: Unified Routing's traffic steering is still in beta. The remaining constraints are gathered in Traffic steering beta limitations, so it's worth a read before you rely on it in production.
Wrap-up
- Network Analytics is now fully supported in Unified Routing mode for Cloudflare WAN and Magic Transit
- Onramp and offramp traffic is visible with the same dimensions and filters as the standard data plane
- No config change needed; enabled accounts collect data automatically
- Traffic steering itself is still in beta with some limitations to watch
If you migrated to Unified Routing and kept squinting at a dashboard thinking "where did my traffic go?", this one's for you, network folks!
