How much does Chronosphere cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Not stated
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
What Chronosphere does
Cortex XCOR brings logs, metrics and traces into one platform, with a Logs Explorer, a natural language chat interface called Operator, and rules that sample or drop low-value log data before storage. Buying is by demo request; no prices are published on these pages.
- Good for
- Enterprise teams running microservices, containers and Kubernetes who want to control growing log volumes and observability costs.
- Main product
- Cortex XCOR (formerly Chronosphere) Observability Platform with log management
- Also includes
- Logs Explorer with sidebar filters and autocomplete syntax, Operator natural language chat for log queries, Investigations agent for automated root cause analysis, Utility Scores for log patterns, Optimization Rules to sample or drop log data, Logging Consumption Budgets
- Connects to
- OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Kubernetes
- Public API
- Not stated
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Live tailNot stated
- Full-text log searchNot stated
- Log-based alertingNot stated
- Configurable retentionNot stated
- SSO and role-based accessNot stated
- Self-hosted optionNot stated
- OpenTelemetry support
Standardize collection on OpenTelemetry.
- AI log analysis assistant
Operator provides a natural language interface to investigate issues and explore log data.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in Log management software. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type 2 audited; report on request via account manager | "Chronosphere is SOC 2 Type 2 **and ISO 27001** audited. To request our report, please reach out to your assigned account manager"privacy |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001 audited | "Chronosphere is SOC 2 Type 2 **and ISO 27001** audited. To request our report, please reach out to your assigned account manager"privacy |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
No prices are published on Chronosphere's pricing page.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Online since
- Mar 5, 2019 Domain registration date
- Backing
- "Chronosphere is now Cortex XCOR by Palo Alto Networks" their words
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Questions
Is Chronosphere free?
No free plan is stated on Chronosphere's pricing page.
