Vercel Tracing Is Now GA, and Longer Retention Is the Real Upgrade

Vercel announced on 6 November 2026 that Tracing is generally available on all plans. It lets you search request traces and spans in the dashboard or the CLI using Kibana Query Language, and it has a live mode that streams new traces.

The headline for us is retention. Hobby goes from 1 hour to 3 days, Pro from 1 day to 14 days, and Enterprise from 3 days to 14 days. Pricing is unchanged from the beta.

Why does that matter? Because slow pages are reported after the fact. A client says the booking page was slow on Tuesday, and on Thursday an hour of data is useless. Three days on a hobby project, and two weeks on Pro, means you can look at what actually happened.

New Next.js projects with at least one Node.js function get tracing enabled by default after the first successful build. That makes the setup cost close to nothing.

Our suggestion: after your next launch, open a trace for your slowest route and look for sequential calls that could run in parallel. It is usually a ten minute job.