Strata Canvas: Reports
Access all reporting capabilities in Strata Cloud Manager from a single
page—browse pre-defined templates, build custom reports in AI Canvas, and manage all
scheduled and historical report activity.
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Reports in Strata Cloud Manager aggregate and visualize your network security data into
structured, shareable PDF documents. Rather than navigating multiple dashboards to piece
together a picture of your security posture, a report compiles the relevant data into a
single output you can review offline, distribute to stakeholders, or archive for
compliance purposes. Reports are most useful when you need to communicate security
findings to audiences who do not have direct access to Strata Cloud Manager, such as
auditors or when you want a consistent, repeatable record of network health over
time.
Strata Cloud Manager provides two types of reports to address different needs:
- Pre-defined reports are ready-to-use templates built and maintained by Palo
Alto Networks. Each template is scoped to a specific security or operational domain—
for example, threat detection coverage, application usage, user activity, or
compliance. Use these when the data you need maps to a known domain and you want a
report that is immediately ready to generate without any configuration.
- Custom reports are reports you design yourself using the AI Canvas editor. Use these when
pre-defined templates do not cover the specific combination of data, time ranges, or
layout your audience requires. You choose which widgets to include, how to arrange
them across pages, and which filters to apply globally.
Any report—pre-defined or custom—can be distributed in three ways: downloaded immediately
as a PDF, shared by email with specific recipients in a one-time send, or scheduled for
recurring delivery at a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence. Each schedule can be managed,
edited, or deleted from a central Activity view on the Reports
page.
Select to open the Reports page, which is organized into three sections:
Pre-defined Reports
System-provided report templates displayed as cards in alphabetical order. Each card
shows a static preview image, a category tag (Security or
Operational), a shortcut showing how many active schedules
exist for that report type, and a Generate Report dropdown for
downloading, sharing, or scheduling the report.
Click View All to open a full-catalog page with a search bar and
Report Category filter.
Custom Reports
Reports you build using
AI Canvas. Each custom report card includes
the same
Generate Report actions as pre-defined reports, plus an
Edit option that opens the report in the AI Canvas editor.
Click
Create New (the
+ card) to create a
new report in the AI Canvas editor.
Click View All to open a full-list page where you can search by
report name.
Activity
Two tabs at the bottom of the Reports page display report activity:
- Scheduled Reports—lists all active report schedules showing
name, report type, creator, status (Report Sent,
Scheduled, or Report Failed),
recurrence, upcoming and last run times, last editor, and recipients. Use the search
bar and Report Type, Category,
Created By, and Frequency filters
to find a specific schedule. Select the edit or delete icons in the
Actions column to modify or remove a schedule.
- History—lists reports generated in the past 90 days.
The following pre-defined report templates are available:
