I Built an ngrok-Style Request Inspector for Cloudflare Tunnels

If you've ever used ngrok for local development, you know how good the built-in request inspector is. You open localhost:4040 , and there's a live dashboard showing every request hitting your tunnel — full headers, request and response bodies, status codes, timing. It's one of those tools that becomes indispensable the moment you use it. Then you switch to Cloudflare Tunnels. cloudflared is fantastic — it's free, it's fast, and it integrates beautifully with Cloudflare's ecosystem. But it has one glaring gap: there's no request inspector . You're flying blind. A webhook fires and you have no idea what payload it sent. A request fails and you can't see the headers. You're left sprinkling console.log statements everywhere and hoping for the best. So I built one. Introducing Tunnel Inspector Tunnel Inspector is a lightweight, open source tool that gives cloudflared the inspector it always should have had. It works by placing a small proxy between cloudflared and your app. The proxy captur