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title: Observability
description: Monitor and analyze performance with Speed Insights, Web Analytics, Logs, and more.
url: "https://vercel.com/kb/observability"
published: 2025-11-03
last_updated: 2026-07-29
install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin
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# Observability

Monitor and analyze performance with Speed Insights, Web Analytics, Logs, and more.

## All Observability guides

- [How to prepare your storefront for Black Friday traffic](/kb/guide/black-friday-preparation): A practical checklist for keeping your storefront fast and your checkout path healthy through Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic, from load testing to instant rollback.
- [Troubleshoot and optimize Active CPU usage on Fluid compute](/kb/guide/optimize-active-cpu-on-fluid-compute): Diagnose which routes drive Active CPU usage and learn to optimize it. Separate traffic growth from per-request CPU work, fix common Active CPU usage patterns, and verify the change after shipping.
- [Build Imgur-style image hosting with Nuxt and Vercel Blob](/kb/guide/vercel-blob-nuxt-imgur-clone): Learn how to build an Imgur-style paste-to-share image host using Nuxt and Vercel Blob, with direct-to-storage client uploads, shareable ISR preview pages, and CDN caching at every layer.
- [Add structured application logs to Vercel Functions](/kb/guide/add-structured-application-logs-to-vercel-functions): Learn how to add structured application logs to Vercel Functions to help troubleshoot function issues in real time.
- [How to Utilize Vercel’s Bot Management Features](/kb/guide/how-to-utilize-vercels-bot-management-features): A practical, step-by-step guide to identifying unwanted automated traffic and securing your Vercel apps with Bot Protection Managed Rules, AI Bots Managed Rules, BotID, and custom WAF rules. Learn how to enable, monitor, and tune protections to block bad bots, preserve performance for real users, and safely allow good crawlers.
- [Why site performance matters](/kb/guide/why-site-performance-matters): How site speed, Core Web Vitals, and SEO combine to drive user retention, conversion rates, and revenue growth.
- [How to run background jobs in Next.js](/kb/guide/how-to-run-background-jobs-in-nextjs-on-vercel): Learn the durable way to run background jobs in Next.js on Vercel with the Workflow SDK, and when to reach for Queues or Cron Jobs.

## Explore other topics in the Vercel Knowledge Base

- [Infrastructure and Compute](/kb/infrastructure-and-compute): Scale and deliver applications efficiently across regions using Vercel's Fluid Compute and CDN.
- [Migrations](/kb/migrations): Learn how to migrate your application or agent to Vercel's agentic infrastructure.
- [Backends](/kb/backends): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases.
- [Python](/kb/python): Build, deploy, and scale Python on Vercel. Run FastAPI, Flask, Django, or any ASGI or WSGI app on Vercel Functions with zero configuration, and find guides on background jobs, storage, AI workloads, containers, and migrating from other platforms.