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description: Improved connection metric insights in the Cloud Observatory, with new provider-level, region-level, and percentile views
title: Cloud Observatory connection metrics improvements
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April 30, 2026

## Cloud Observatory connection metrics improvements

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The [Cloud Observatory ↗︎](https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory) on [**Radar**](https://developers.cloudflare.com/radar/) now provides improved connection metric insights, offering new ways to explore TCP round-trip time, TCP handshake duration, TLS handshake duration, and response header receive duration across cloud provider origin servers.

The [Cloud Observatory overview ↗︎](https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory#connection-metrics) now shows connection metrics broken down by cloud provider, making it easy to compare connection performance across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

![Screenshot of Cloud Observatory connection metrics broken down by cloud provider](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2338,height=1408,format=webp/_astro/cloud-observatory-connection-metrics-by-provider.Bk9nSitV.png)

Each [provider page ↗︎](https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory/amazon#connection-metrics) now shows connection metrics for the top five regions, with a selector to rank by lowest or highest values.

![Screenshot of Cloud Observatory connection metrics broken down by region for a provider](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2338,height=1414,format=webp/_astro/cloud-observatory-connection-metrics-by-region.CbHAKXoc.png)

Each [region page ↗︎](https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory/amazon/us-east-1#connection-metrics) now displays connection metrics as percentile distributions (25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile), providing insight into the range and variability of connection times.

![Screenshot of Cloud Observatory connection metrics with percentile distribution for a region](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=2340,height=1288,format=webp/_astro/cloud-observatory-connection-metrics-percentiles.DJ9eAE0-.png)

These views are also available through the [`Origins` API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/radar/subresources/origins/), using the `timeseries_groups` endpoint with the `ORIGIN`, `REGION`, or `PERCENTILE` dimension.

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