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To help you understand your network’s health, and to troubleshoot issues that occur, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XCOR includes tools and features to provide actionable insights into each type of telemetry data you ingest.

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Metrics

Aggregate measurements from your services and apps, such as a fixed number of periodic observations that record the count of requests handled over the span of a minute. Cortex XCOR adds, drops, and aggregates those statistics for use in dashboards, traces, and alerts.

Metrics

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Logs

Data directly generated by apps and services, which you can ingest with Cortex XCOR to investigate issues with your systems and monitor their health. Use Logs Explorer to search log data so your teams have more detailed context to help identify and fix the root cause of issues.

Logs

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Traces

Mapping and analyzing requests as they flow through a distributed system. Traces include spans that an app emits, and connects related spans together. Each span represents an operation or unit of work.

Traces

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Change events

Data elements that describe real world changes or events that could have affected your environment. Events let you answer questions like When did a particular service deploy last?

Change events