Cortex XCOR guides

These guides help you use Palo Alto Networks Cortex XCOR features to perform common tasks.

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Respond to incidents

Triage scope and impact, investigate root causes across metrics, traces, and logs, reduce notification noise, and document the resolution.

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Manage telemetry data budgets

Partition telemetry data by owner, analyze consumption, set budget thresholds that alert or drop data, and shape data to fit your license.

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Reduce high cardinality

Identify high-cardinality metrics and apply shaping rules to reduce their volume without losing visibility.

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Configure services

Set up service discovery, clean up the service list, add presentations, and connect SLOs.

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Explore services and telemetry data

Investigate issues with a service and its dependencies using telemetry data.

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Use traces to find problems

Walk through tracing workflows during on-call triage to locate the source of a problem.

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Best practices when using dashboard intervals

Understand how query intervals and data resolution affect what your dashboards display.