Strata Cloud Manager Essentials provides management and security features, and these features are available to you free with:

Strata Logging Service is available as an optional add-on for Strata Cloud Manager Essentials.

Strata Cloud Manager Pro is the paid tier that includes all the features of Strata Cloud Manager Essentials, plus advanced features to enhance operational health, prevent network disruptions, strengthen real-time security posture, and Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) for monitoring user experience performance. Strata Cloud Manager Pro includes Strata Logging Service with one year of log retention and unlimited storage, enabling centralized logging and seamless data retrieval across your deployment. You can purchase Strata Cloud Manager Pro for the following products:

For NGFWs with an AIOps for NGFW Premium license, Strata Cloud Manager gives you an overall view of the health and security of your NGFWs, and can enforce proactive checks to close security gaps.

There's two ways you can manage Prisma Access: you can use Strata Cloud Manager or Panorama. Strata Cloud Manager provides Prisma Access visibility features, and these are supported regardless of the management interface you're using. This means that if you're using Panorama to manage Prisma Access, you can still use Strata Cloud Manager for comprehensive monitoring of Prisma Access environment.

This includes using Strata Cloud Manager to manage and monitor the cloud-delivered security services that are included with Prisma Access.

Strata Cloud Manager gives you comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and visibility into your Prisma Access environment:

If you're using Panorama to manage Prisma Access, you must continue to use Panorama to manage your environment. However, you can use Strata Cloud Manager for comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and visibility into your Prisma Access environment:

AI-Powered ADEM is a Prisma Access add-on license that automates complex IT operations, to increase productivity and reduce time to resolution for issues. Strata Cloud Manager supports AI-Powered ADEM for all Prisma Access users (both Panorama - Managed Prisma Access and Prisma Access Cloud Management).

Use Strata Cloud Manager for Prisma SD-WAN. Prisma SD-WAN is a cloud-delivered service that implements app-defined, autonomous SD-WAN to help you secure and connect your branch offices, data centers and large campus sites without increasing cost and complexity. The AppFabric connects your sites securely with application awareness and gives you the freedom to use any WAN, any cloud for a thin branch (security from the cloud) solution.

If you have either a Prisma Access or AIOps for NGFW Premium license, you can use Strata Cloud Manager to manage and monitor your security subscriptions. Strata Cloud Manager delivers the protections your security subscriptions provide consistently across your enterprise traffic.

The Strata Cloud Manager features available to you for security subscriptions do depend on your license, and can include: