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Connect Cloudflare Observability to VS Code

Give VS Code governed access to Cloudflare Observability through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Cloudflare Observability to VS Code in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in VS Code then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Cloudflare Observability in Runlayer

    Add Cloudflare Observability from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect VS Code to Runlayer

    Runlayer’s CLI installs the Runlayer Plugin natively in VS Code; users can also add it over MCP. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Cloudflare Observability’s tools show up in VS Code’s own tool list (VS Code 1.103 or newer).

    VS Code setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Cloudflare Observability

    Sign in the way Cloudflare Observability requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Cloudflare Observability from VS Code

    Cloudflare Observability’s approved tools appear in VS Code. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

Cloudflare Observability tools in VS Code

Cloudflare Observability reports its tools when your organization connects it, so the list depends on your deployment.

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in VS Code

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what VS Code exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Cloudflare Observability call from VS Code passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, VS Code as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Client hooks (available)

    Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can deny a tool call before VS Code runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output before VS Code’s model sees it.

  • Redact output in place (available)

    Runlayer can mask sensitive parts of a tool’s output in VS Code and pass the rest through.

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