Observability's AI Moment
Palo Alto Networks, Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Palo Alto Networks launches Cortex XCOR, an AI-native observability platform with an AI SRE that automatically finds root causes.
Chronosphere co-founder Martin Mao, writing six months after joining Palo Alto Networks, announces Cortex XCOR, an AI-native observability platform that aims to automatically identify the root cause of issues and drive autonomous response through an AI SRE, rather than just showing dashboards.
Mao says Chronosphere's work on managing observability data at scale, combined with advances in LLM reasoning, now makes this possible.
The post frames XCOR as reimagining observability for the modern software development lifecycle.