: Cortex Data Lake Log Types
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Cortex Data Lake Log Types

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Cortex Data Lake
Log Types

You can store these types of logs in
Cortex Data Lake
.
In the
Cortex Data Lake
app, you can set how much of your overall log storage you want to allocate to the following log types:
Log Type
Description
Common Logs
config
Configuration logs—entries for changes to the firewall configuration.
system
System logs—entries for each system event on the firewall.
Firewall Logs
auth
Authentication logs—information about authentication events that occur when end users try to access network resources for which access is controlled by Authentication Policy rules.
dns_security
DNS Security Logs
—information from two sources:
The DNS Security log data in
Cortex Data Lake
represents only a subset of all DNS requests and responses detected in your network. To view all malicious DNS requests, check
threat
.
Cortex Data Lake
does not store
dns_security
logs automatically. To begin storing them, you must set quota for
dns_security
to a value greater than 0.
The
Cortex Data Lake
Estimator does not yet support DNS Security logs, so you must calculate log storage manually. The average size of a DNS Security log is approximately 833 bytes.
eal
Enhanced application logs—data that increases visibility into network activity for Palo Alto Networks apps and services, like Cortex XDR and IoT Security.
Cortex Data Lake
only streams these logs to other applications and does not store them, so they do not use storage space.
extpcap
Extended packet capture
—packet captures in a proprietary Palo Alto Networks format. The firewall only collects these if you enable extended capture in Vulnerability Protection or Anti-Spyware profiles.
file_data
Data filtering logs—entries for the security rules that help prevent sensitive information such as credit card numbers from leaving the area that the firewall protects.
globalprotect
  • GlobalProtect system logs
  • LSVPN/satellite events
  • GlobalProtect portal and gateway logs
  • Clientless VPN logs
hipMatch
HIP Match logs—information about the security status of the end devices accessing your network.
iptag
IP-Tag logs—how and when a source IP address is registered or unregistered on the firewall and what tag the firewall applied to the address.
sctp
Stream Control Transmission Protol logs—events and associations based on logs generated by the firewall while it performs stateful inspection, protocol validation, and filtering of SCTP traffic.
threat
Threat logs—entries generated when traffic matches one of the Security Profiles attached to a security rule on the firewall.
traffic
Traffic logs—entries for the start and end of each session.
tunnel
Tunnel Inspection logs—entries of non-encrypted tunnel sessions.
url
URL Filtering logs—entries for traffic that matches the URL Filtering profile attached to a security policy rule.
userid
User-ID logs—information about IP address-to-username mappings and Authentication Timestamps, such as the sources of the mapping information and the times when users authenticated.
decryption
Decryption logs—information about sessions that match a Decryption policy to help you gain context about that traffic so you can accurately and easily diagnose and resolve decryption issues.
ztna_agent
Reserved for future use.

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