A local Log Collector is easy to deploy because it requires no
additional hardware or virtual machine instance. In a high availability
(HA) configuration, you can send logs to the local Log Collector
on both Panorama peers; the passive Panorama doesn’t wait for failover
to start collecting logs.
Dedicated Log Collectors are M-600, M-500, M-200, or M-100 appliances
in Log Collector mode. Because they perform only log collection,
not firewall management, Dedicated Log Collectors allow for a more
robust environment than local Log Collectors. Dedicated Log Collectors
provide the following benefits: