To augment your Cortex XDR data, you can set up Cortex XDR to ingest data from a variety of external third-party sources.
Note
New Cortex XDR licenses that are purchased from October 1st, 2025 and onwards will no longer support the data collectors marked with an asterisk (*). For comprehensive data collector support, consider upgrading to an XSIAM license.
To provide you with a more complete and detailed picture of the activity involved in an incident, you can ingest data from a variety of external, third-party sources into Cortex XDR.
Cortex XDR can receive logs, or both logs and alerts, from the source. Depending on the data source, Cortex XDR can provide visibility into your external data in the form of:
Log stitching with other logs in order to create network or authentication stories.
Raw data in queries from XQL Search.
Alerts reported by the vendor throughout Cortex XDR, such as in the alerts table, incidents, and views.
Alerts raised by Cortex XDR on log data, such as analytics alerts.
To ingest data, you must set up the Syslog Collector applet on a Broker VM within your network.
The following table summarizes the vendor data that can be ingested, according to log or data type.
Log/Data Type | Vendor Support |
|---|---|
Network Connections | |
Authentication Services/Audit Logs | |
Operation and System Logs from Cloud Providers | |
Endpoint Logs | |
Cloud Assets | |
Custom External Sources |