---
title: "Observability release is here"
description: "Netlify Observability offers real-time visibility into the production performance and resource usage of your project."
source: "https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2025-12-16-observability/"
last_updated: "2026-07-06T08:53:15.000Z"
---
Netlify Observability offers real-time visibility into your project’s production performance and resource usage.

Monitor requests, bandwidth, runtime behavior, functions, and Edge Functions to understand how your web project operates in production, fix errors, and optimize web performance.

Get a deep feature tour from our [Observability blog post](https://www.netlify.com/blog/introducing-observability-stop-guessing-what-s-happening/).

## Try Observability

From your project overview, select **Logs & metrics** > **Observability**. To expand details for a request, select a request.

![Observability dashboard](/images/changelog/observability-dashboard.png)

## Availability

Observability is available for Credit-based plans and Enterprise plans. If you have a Legacy pricing plan, you can get a sneak peek at your observability data by checking out the widget from your Project Overview.

![Observability widget on project overview showing past hour of request data](/images/changelog/observability-widget-past-hour.png)

Credit-based plan

Time filter available

Free

Past 24 hours

Personal

Past 7 days

Pro

Past 30 days

Enterprise plan

Time filter available

Any opted-in Enterprise plan

Past 30 days

Note that if you have a Credit-based plan or have Observability enabled for an Enterprise plan, then Function Metrics will no longer be available to you as it is replaced by Observability.

If you do not have Observability, then Function Metrics will continue to be available to you.

Learn more in our [Function metrics](https://docs.netlify.com/manage/monitoring/function-metrics/) docs.

## Other monitoring updates

As part of monitoring updates, we have also updated the names of some of our monitoring features.

Old name

New name

Real User Metrics

Real User Monitoring

Project analytics (formerly site analytics)

Web analytics

## Further info

To learn more, check out [Observability docs](https://docs.netlify.com/manage/monitoring/observability/overview).