Cloudflare changelogs | Pipelines

Pipelines, Workers - Dropped event metrics, typed Pipelines bindings, and improved setup

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare Pipelines ingests streaming data via Workers or HTTP endpoints, transforms it with SQL, and writes it to R2 as Apache Iceberg tables. Today we're shipping three improvements to help you understand why streaming events get dropped, catch data quality issues early, and set up Pipelines faster.

Dropped event metrics

When stream events don't match the expected schema, Pipelines accepts them during ingestion but drops them when attempting to deliver them to the sink. To help you identify the root cause of these issues, we are introducing a new dashboard and metrics that surface dropped events with detailed error messages.

Dropped events can also be queried programmatically via the new pipelinesUserErrorsAdaptiveGroups GraphQL dataset. The dataset breaks down failures by specific error type (missing_field, type_mismatch, parse_failure, or null_value) so you can trace issues back to the source.

query GetPipelineUserErrors(
  $accountTag: String!
  $pipelineId: String!
  $datetimeStart: Time!
  $datetimeEnd: Time!
) {
  viewer {
    accounts(filter: { accountTag: $accountTag }) {
      pipelinesUserErrorsAdaptiveGroups(
        limit: 100
        filter: {
          pipelineId: $pipelineId
          datetime_geq: $datetimeStart
          datetime_leq: $datetimeEnd
        }
        orderBy: [count_DESC]
      ) {
        count
        dimensions {
          errorFamily
          errorType
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

For the full list of dimensions, error types, and additional query examples, refer to User error metrics.

Typed Pipelines bindings

Sending data to a Pipeline from a Worker previously used a generic Pipeline<PipelineRecord> type, which meant schema mismatches (wrong field names, incorrect types) were only caught at runtime as dropped events.

Running wrangler types now generates schema-specific TypeScript types for your Pipeline bindings. TypeScript catches missing required fields and incorrect field types at compile time, before your code is deployed.

declare namespace Cloudflare {
  type EcommerceStreamRecord = {
    user_id: string;
    event_type: string;
    product_id?: string;
    amount?: number;
  };
  interface Env {
    STREAM: import("cloudflare:pipelines").Pipeline<Cloudflare.EcommerceStreamRecord>;
  }
}

For more information, refer to Typed Pipeline bindings.

Improved Pipelines setup

Setting up a new Pipeline previously required multiple manual steps: creating an R2 bucket, enabling R2 Data Catalog, generating an API token, and configuring format, compression, and rolling policies individually.

The wrangler pipelines setup command now offers a Simple setup mode that applies recommended defaults and automatically creates the R2 bucket and enables R2 Data Catalog if they do not already exist. Validation errors during setup prompt you to retry inline rather than restarting the entire process.

For a full walkthrough, refer to the Getting started guide.

Pipelines - Pipelines now supports SQL transformations and Apache Iceberg

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Today, we're launching the new Cloudflare Pipelines: a streaming data platform that ingests events, transforms them with SQL, and writes to R2 as Apache Iceberg tables or Parquet files.

Pipelines can receive events via HTTP endpoints or Worker bindings, transform them with SQL, and deliver to R2 with exactly-once guarantees. This makes it easy to build analytics-ready warehouses for server logs, mobile application events, IoT telemetry, or clickstream data without managing streaming infrastructure.

For example, here's a pipeline that ingests clickstream events and filters out bot traffic while extracting domain information:

INSERT into events_table
SELECT
  user_id,
  lower(event) AS event_type,
  to_timestamp_micros(ts_us) AS event_time,
  regexp_match(url, '^https?://([^/]+)')[1]  AS domain,
  url,
  referrer,
  user_agent
FROM events_json
WHERE event = 'page_view'
  AND NOT regexp_like(user_agent, '(?i)bot|spider');

Get started by creating a pipeline in the dashboard or running a single command in Wrangler:

npx wrangler pipelines setup

Check out our getting started guide to learn how to create a pipeline that delivers events to an Iceberg table you can query with R2 SQL. Read more about today's announcement in our blog post.

Pipelines, R2, Workers - Cloudflare Pipelines now available in beta

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare Pipelines is now available in beta, to all users with a Workers Paid plan.

Pipelines let you ingest high volumes of real time data, without managing the underlying infrastructure. A single pipeline can ingest up to 100 MB of data per second, via HTTP or from a Worker. Ingested data is automatically batched, written to output files, and delivered to an R2 bucket in your account. You can use Pipelines to build a data lake of clickstream data, or to store events from a Worker.

Create your first pipeline with a single command:

$ npx wrangler@latest pipelines create my-clickstream-pipeline --r2-bucket my-bucket

🌀 Authorizing R2 bucket "my-bucket"
🌀 Creating pipeline named "my-clickstream-pipeline"
✅ Successfully created pipeline my-clickstream-pipeline

Id:    0e00c5ff09b34d018152af98d06f5a1xvc
Name:  my-clickstream-pipeline
Sources:
  HTTP:
    Endpoint:        https://0e00c5ff09b34d018152af98d06f5a1xvc.pipelines.cloudflare.com/
    Authentication:  off
    Format:          JSON
  Worker:
    Format:  JSON
Destination:
  Type:         R2
  Bucket:       my-bucket
  Format:       newline-delimited JSON
  Compression:  GZIP
Batch hints:
  Max bytes:     100 MB
  Max duration:  300 seconds
  Max records:   100,000

🎉 You can now send data to your pipeline!

Send data to your pipeline's HTTP endpoint:
curl "https://0e00c5ff09b34d018152af98d06f5a1xvc.pipelines.cloudflare.com/" -d '[{ ...JSON_DATA... }]'

To send data to your pipeline from a Worker, add the following configuration to your config file:
{
  "pipelines": [
    {
      "pipeline": "my-clickstream-pipeline",
      "binding": "PIPELINE"
    }
  ]
}

Head over to our getting started guide for an in-depth tutorial to building with Pipelines.