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Description
Cortex is an innovative open-source solution that enhances horizontal scalability. While Prometheus is capable of handling up to 1 million samples per second on a single machine, Cortex enables a virtually limitless level of horizontal scaling. In an ever-evolving landscape, it is essential to adopt alternative strategies for monitoring individual virtual machines or servers. Prometheus features a service-discovery-driven, pull-based metrics system that caters to the dynamic characteristics of microservices. This capability allows for seamless monitoring of your entire ecosystem, regardless of the number of components involved. You can instrument your application to generate tailored metrics using the standard Prometheus client libraries, or you can leverage the vast array of Prometheus Exporters that gather data from existing software like MySQL, Redis, Java, ElasticSearch, and many others. By adopting these tools, organizations can ensure they maintain visibility and control over their complex infrastructures. This flexibility is particularly valuable in today's fast-paced, continuously changing technological environments.
Description
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XCOR is an AI-powered observability platform that provides monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational intelligence across applications, infrastructure, and end-user experiences. The platform collects and analyzes logs, metrics, traces, and events to provide visibility into distributed systems and cloud-native environments. Its XCOR Operator provides a conversational interface that enables engineers to query system data, investigate performance issues, configure alerts, and create dashboards using natural language. AI Investigations automatically correlates telemetry signals and system dependencies to identify probable root causes and reduce incident resolution times. Operational Fabric maintains contextual information about system topology, historical incidents, user behavior, and operational knowledge to support AI-driven investigations. Application observability capabilities include automated service discovery, dependency mapping, service-level objective monitoring, and distributed tracing. Real user monitoring and synthetic monitoring help teams evaluate application responsiveness, browser performance, and potential issues affecting digital experiences. The platform's Optimization Engine identifies low-value telemetry and applies filtering, sampling, and aggregation rules to reduce unnecessary data storage costs. Cortex XCOR supports OpenTelemetry-based data collection, scalable infrastructure monitoring, and consumption budgets for controlling observability spending across enterprise environments.
API Access
Has API
No
API Access
Has API
No
Integrations
Amazon DynamoDB
Yes
Amazon S3
Yes
Cydarm
Yes
Elasticsearch
Yes
LaunchDarkly
No
MySQL
Yes
NudgeBee
No
OpenTelemetry
No
Opsgenie
No
PagerDuty
No
Integrations
Amazon DynamoDB
No
Amazon S3
No
Cydarm
No
Elasticsearch
No
LaunchDarkly
Yes
MySQL
No
NudgeBee
Yes
OpenTelemetry
Yes
Opsgenie
Yes
PagerDuty
Yes
Pricing Details
No price information available.
Free Trial
Yes
Free Version
Yes
Pricing Details
No price information available.
Free Trial
No
Free Version
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
Yes
In Person
No
Types of Training
Training Docs
No
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
Yes
In Person
No
Vendor Details
Company Name
The Cortex Authors
Founded
2014
Country
United Kingdom
Website
cortexmetrics.io
Vendor Details
Company Name
Palo Alto Networks
Founded
2005
Country
United States
Website
www.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/xcor
Product Features
Product Features
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Baseline Manager
No
Diagnostic Tools
No
Full Transaction Diagnostics
No
Performance Control
No
Resource Management
No
Root-Cause Diagnosis
No
Server Performance
No
Trace Individual Transactions
No
Incident Management
Audit Trail
No
Corrective Actions (CAPA)
No
Disaster Recovery
No
IT Incident Management
No
Incident Reporting
No
OSHA Compliance
No
Root-Cause Diagnosis
No
Safety Management
No
Task Management
No
Ticket Management
No
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Alerts / Notifications
No
Application Monitoring
No
Bandwidth Monitoring
No
Capacity Planning
No
Configuration Change Management
No
Data Movement Monitoring
No
Health Monitoring
No
Multi-Platform Support
No
Performance Monitoring
No
Point-in-Time Visibility
No
Reporting / Analytics
No
Virtual Machine Monitoring
No