Chronosphere Observability Platform

Spec sheet

What it does

Chronosphere is a cloud native observability platform that provides insights across infrastructure, applications, and business systems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Product

Chronosphere is a business-to-business SaaS observability platform for monitoring metrics, events, logs, and distributed traces.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Intended users

The platform is built for site reliability, DevOps, and engineering teams working with cloud native environments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Deployment

The Observability Platform is a SaaS service; customer environments deploy Chronosphere collectors, while Chronosphere manages the datastore and dashboards.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Integrations

Telemetry Pipeline supports more than 70 out-of-the-box integrations, including Datadog, Fluent Bit, Splunk, Amazon S3, and Azure Event Grid.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Security

Chronosphere says it is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 audited, and encrypts customer data in transit and at rest.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Support

Customer support includes 24/7/365 communication by Slack, Zendesk, or email, plus customer success resources and optional office hours.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Headquarters

New York, New York, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · chronosphere.io

Founded

Chronosphere’s 2019 launch announcement says the company formally launched on November 5, 2019.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Company status

Chronosphere's homepage says it is now Cortex XCO by Palo Alto Networks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Cost controls

The Control Plane lets teams analyze and transform observability data before storage; Chronosphere reports an average 89% data reduction after transformation.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Data collection

It ingests data using Prometheus or OpenTelemetry and supports querying with PromQL.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Data optimization

Its Control Plane lets customers analyze and shape telemetry data before storage to retain useful data and reduce costs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Open standards

The platform supports Prometheus and OpenTelemetry data, and supports PromQL queries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Pilot

Pilots are typically free and last 2–3 weeks; large-scale or long-term pilots may be paid.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Pricing

Observability Platform pricing is based on useful retained data, while Telemetry Pipeline pricing is based on data throughput; the company works with each customer on pricing.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Product status

Chronosphere’s homepage says it is now Cortex XCOR by Palo Alto Networks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Reliability

Chronosphere describes its platform as single-tenant and reports 99.99% or greater uptime over the past year on its platform page.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Scale

Chronosphere says the platform is designed to handle 2 billion data points per second and 20 billion active time series.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Telemetry Pipeline pricing

Telemetry Pipeline pricing is based solely on data throughput, defined as the volume of raw data transmitted through the pipeline.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Troubleshooting

Differential Diagnosis provides guided, queryless troubleshooting using metrics or traces.Read 11 Oct 2026 · chronosphere.io

Plans and prices

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