Workers - New L4 transport telemetry fields in Workers
Key Points
- New L4 transport telemetry properties in request.cf
- Real-time RTT and delivery rate metrics available
- Enable connection-quality based routing decisions
Summary
Cloudflare Workers now provides three new properties on request.cf that expose Layer 4 transport telemetry from client connections. These properties enable Workers to make routing and response decisions based on real-time connection quality metrics without requiring client-side changes.
Key Points
- clientTcpRtt: TCP round-trip time in milliseconds for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 connections
- clientQuicRtt: QUIC round-trip time in milliseconds for HTTP/3 connections
- edgeL4: Object containing
deliveryRateproperty with data delivery rate in bytes per second - Previously only available via
Server-Timing: cfL4response header - Can be used for connection-aware routing, logging, and response customization
- Accessible directly in Workers runtime for immediate decision making