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Cost Management & Optimization

Align Observability Spend with Business Value

Get the most value out of every dollar you spend on observability. Cortex XCOR gives visibility, while optimizing away 89% of noise.

Challenges

Observability Costs Outpace Business Value

Modern environments create massive volumes of observability data. Telemetry surges have a direct impact on observability costs.
AI and Kubernetes Data Growth
AI and Kubernetes Data Growth

AI and Kubernetes Data Growth

Containerized environments create 10-100x more data than VM-based counterparts. AI-native environments explode logs, metrics, and traces even further.
Instrumentation Changes Cause Cost Spikes
Instrumentation Changes Cause Cost Spikes

Instrumentation Changes Cause Cost Spikes

Without central guardrails, a tiny tweak can trigger a data explosion. Admins only find out when a massive invoice arrives.
Data Removal Disrupts and Creates Blind Spots
Data Removal Disrupts and Creates Blind Spots

Data Removal Disrupts and Creates Blind Spots

Manual data cleanup steals focus from product roadmap. Without visibility into the value of data, teams risk removing data needed to fix outages.
Solutions

Preserve the Signal and Remove the Noise from
Metrics, Logs & Traces

Cortex® XCOR™ cuts data volume by 89% while preserving key outage signals. It analyzes usage to recommend precise label and field optimizations.

Reduce Metric Volume Without Creating Blindspots

Cortex XCOR safely reduces metric volume and cardinality by mapping telemetry to active usage, stripping low-value data and preserving visibility.

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Granular Log Control Driven by Actual Usage

Reduce log costs while preserving analytical value. Easily drop noise, strip meta fields, and convert raw logs into metrics, and more.

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Dynamic Trace Sampling: Only What You Need

Stop over-sampling. Cortex XCOR pairs dynamic head and tail sampling to capture errors and incident spikes without paying to store success paths.

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KEY CAPABILITIES

Complete Control Over Your Telemetry

Analyze, shape, and govern metrics, logs, and traces with automated optimization tools built for modern cloud-native and AI scale.
Track actual data utility to strip out waste

Track actual data utility to strip out waste

Inspect 100% of your data footprint. See query frequency, dashboard and alert mapping and active users to separate high-value data from unused noise.
Get automated recommendations to reduce data

Get automated recommendations to reduce data

Scan for inactive metrics and labels. Preview exact capacity savings. Generate single-click Optimization Rules to permanently remove data waste.
Enforce team budgets and data accountability

Enforce team budgets and data accountability

Set data thresholds by team or service. Automatically drop low-priority data at capacity. Match telemetry spend with teams generating data noise.
Stop cardinality spikes as they occur

Stop cardinality spikes as they occur

See what data enters the system in real time. Intercept and stop unexpected label spikes and high-cardinality explosions before they drive up costs.
Dynamically adjust head-based trace sampling

Dynamically adjust head-based trace sampling

Apply head sampling at trace inception to throttle massive raw volumes. Dynamically adjust ingestion rates without code redeployments.
Keep only error traces with tail-based sampling

Keep only error traces with tail-based sampling

Enforce rules to retain high-value data while downsampling repetitive success paths to maximize debugging fidelity with a minimal storage footprint.
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BENEFITS

Align Telemetry Costs Directly to Operational Value

Maximize the value per dollar spent across logs, metrics, and traces. Cortex XCOR couples utility analysis with advanced budgeting.
Understand the Value of Data at a Granular Level
Understand the Value of Data at a Granular Level

Understand the Value of Data at a Granular Level

Understand telemetry ROI with deep visibility into data value based on real-world usage.
Easily Remove the Data Your Team Doesn’t Need
Easily Remove the Data Your Team Doesn’t Need

Easily Remove the Data Your Team Doesn’t Need

Apply Optimization Rules to remove high-volume noise without forcing developers to redeploy code.
Enforce Team Budgets to Stop Overage Fees
Enforce Team Budgets to Stop Overage Fees

Enforce Team Budgets to Stop Overage Fees

Set precise telemetry limits across teams, services, or any organizational structure.

Frequently Asked Questions

Cortex XCOR analyzes data utility by tracking query frequency and user attribution across the system. The Optimization Engine maps incoming telemetry to active dashboards and alerting paths. It identifies unused data and high-cardinality labels, stripping out waste while preserving high-signal data.
  • Sample: Keep 1 of every N log entry.
  • Drop Logs: Remove log data Utility Analysis confirms.
  • Drop Fields/Values: Remove fields or values that inflate volume.
  • Convert to Metrics: Extract metrics to power dashboards.
  • Find and Replace: Remove noise and ensure consistency.
Deploy dynamic head sampling at the root span to throttle raw volumes without code redeployments. Context-aware tail sampling evaluates 100% of completed traces to guarantee errors, late-arriving dependencies and performance regressions are retained.
Set precise budgets across teams, services. If a spike threatens capacity, Cortex XCOR enforces predefined guardrails to drop low-priority data at the ingestion layer, protecting your budget while preserving critical production visibility.