Transforming Palo Alto Firewall Logs into Actionable Insights Using Falcon LogScale

Palo Alto firewalls throw off a huge amount of log data, but staring at raw events does not help anyone understand what is happening on the network. Falcon LogScale gives you fast search and cheap storage, and DataElicit's Palo Alto package adds the missing piece by parsing those logs into a common schema and surfacing pre built dashboards so your SOC can move from noise to actual insight.

Palo Alto firewall telemetryCrowdStrike Parsing StandardFalcon LogScale dashboards

In a security program that actually takes its job seriously, the firewall is still one of the main control points. Palo Alto Networks firewalls generate rich logs about traffic, threats, user activity and configuration changes, but on their own those events are hard to explore and even harder to join with data from the rest of your stack. Falcon LogScale is built for high volume logging with real time search, and with the Palo Alto package from DataElicit you get parsers and visualizations that unlock the real value of that telemetry instead of leaving it in flat text.

Parsing Palo Alto firewall logs

The core of the package is a paloalto firewall parser that turns raw device logs into structured events. It normalizes fields into CrowdStrike Parsing Standard so you can search on stable names instead of remembering every Palo Alto field and it lets you combine those events with other CPS sources inside Falcon LogScale.

Handles common Palo Alto log types such as traffic, threat, HIP match, GlobalProtect, user and system logs so the main firewall activity lands in a consistent format.
Exposes CPS fields so analysts can reuse the same searches and dashboards they rely on for other Falcon LogScale data instead of building Palo Alto specific ones from scratch.
Makes it easier to correlate Palo Alto events with identity providers, endpoints and SaaS telemetry that also follow CrowdStrike Parsing Standard.

Pre built dashboards for quick insights

Once the logs are parsed, you still need a way to see what matters without writing every query by hand. The Palo Alto package ships with dashboards that cover day to day operations, user behavior and threat monitoring so teams can get value quickly instead of treating the project as a never ending build.

Typical issues without structured dashboards:

✕Analysts waste time re running the same ad hoc searches to answer basic questions about traffic, threats and changes.
✕There is no shared view of firewall health, policy coverage and risky activity for operations and security teams.
✕Threat hunting gets stuck at the single device level instead of looking across zones, users and applications.

The Palo Alto package from DataElicit gives your SOC:

✓Dashboards for file and web activity, showing which users, destinations and applications are actually in use.
✓Views for GlobalProtect and SaaS usage so remote access and cloud apps are monitored next to on prem traffic.
✓Panels that track firewall configuration, system events and real time operations feeds to spot issues early.
✓Threat focused charts for malware, email and network security plus WildFire submissions so investigations start from a meaningful overview.

With Palo Alto firewall logs flowing into Falcon LogScale through this package, your SOC can move from raw line items to a living picture of how the network is behaving and where the real risk sits.

Falcon LogScale dashboards for Palo Alto firewall data

Conclusion

Falcon LogScale paired with DataElicit's Palo Alto Networks package turns firewall logs into something your team can actually use. Parsed events in CrowdStrike Parsing Standard plus focused dashboards give you faster understanding of network posture, smoother compliance reporting and a better response to the threats that matter.

Ready to dive deeper?

This article only scratches the surface. Falcon LogScale can handle far more than a single firewall feed, and we build custom packages that make onboarding other security and infrastructure data just as painless while keeping everything aligned to a common schema.

Our LogConnector platform bridges your existing data sources with Falcon LogScale so teams are not stuck writing one off scripts every time a new integration appears. From planning and ingestion design to dashboard builds and runbooks, we help you reach the point where firewall logs and other telemetry reliably support investigations instead of slowing them down.

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If your Palo Alto firewalls are already sending logs somewhere, you are paying for that data. With LogConnector and Falcon LogScale you can turn those events into something that speeds up investigations and compliance work instead of another line item in the budget.

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