# Vercel — Introducing Vercel Drains: Complete observability data, anywhere

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-09-15T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-drains
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20822-introducing-vercel-drains-complete-observability-data-anywhere
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway
- Pricing: Data exported via Drains is billed at $0.50 per GB, the same rate as existing log drains.

Vercel expanded its Log Drains into Vercel Drains, adding support for OpenTelemetry traces, Web Analytics events, and Speed Insights metrics. The unified pipeline streams observability data to external tools via custom HTTP endpoints or turnkey integrations, with automatic correlation between logs and traces. Drains are available on Pro and Enterprise plans at $0.50 per GB.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-drains:

> Vercel Log Drains are now Vercel Drains. Why? They’re not just for logs anymore, as you can now also export OpenTelemetry traces, Web Analytics events, and Speed Insights metrics.

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