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# Designing Partitions

> Est. ~15–20 minutes. Partitions are hierarchical groupings used to categorize data and govern credit consumption with Consumption Pricing in Cortex XCOR. Take this course to learn how partitions categorize metrics, logs, and traces, to design a multi-level structure that matches your organization, and to navigate the UI to generate a consumption configuration.

Est. \~15–20 minutes. Partitions are hierarchical groupings used to categorize data and govern credit consumption with Consumption Pricing in Cortex XCOR. Take this course to learn how partitions categorize metrics, logs, and traces, to design a multi-level structure that matches your organization, and to navigate the UI to generate a consumption configuration.

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## Related documentation

* [Partitions](/control/consumption/partitions)


## Related topics

- [Partitions](/control/consumption/partitions.md)
- [Design service level objectives](/administer/design-slos.md)
- [Alert details](/investigate/alerts/alert-details.md)
- [Manage service level objectives](/investigate/alerts/manage-slos.md)
- [Applying Budgets to Partitions](/academy/courses/applying-budgets-to-partitions.md)


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