feat(cortex-xdr): fetch incidents with their alerts, not a 21-field summary
incidents/get_incidents/ answers with a summary and nothing else: 21 fields,
no hosts, no users, no MITRE, no tags, and not one of the alerts the incident
aggregates. Ingesting through it leaves an incident whose raw payload says
almost nothing about what happened — and the shipped mapper had been written
for a richer shape than the endpoint ever returns, mapping hosts[0], users[0]
and mitre_* that simply are not in that response.
incidents/get_multiple_incidents_extra_data/ returns the same incidents with
39 fields, every alert in full — 156 fields each — and the file and network
artifacts. It is what the reference client fetches through (demisto/content,
CortexXDRIR.get_multiple_incidents_extra_data), and full_alert_fields must be
set or the nested alerts come back trimmed to a handful of fields.
Records arrive as {incident, alerts, network_artifacts, file_artifacts} with
each nested block wrapped as {total_count, data}. The script flattens them, so
every expression written against get_incidents keeps working — the summary's
21 fields are a subset of these 39 — while the alerts and artifacts land beside
them as plain lists, and their total_count says when a list is a sample rather
than the whole set. incident_sources is lifted into a scalar for the same
reason severity was on the alerts side: the incident-field mapper reads dotted
paths and cannot index a list.
get_incidents stays, for cheap polling, and now says in its description what it
does and does not carry.
The mapper maps the aggregate first and the first alert last, so the alert
fills in whatever the aggregate leaves silent — including the detection anchor,
since an XDR incident's detection_time is usually null while its alerts carry
theirs. Verified against the vendor's recorded response
(test_data/get_multiple_incidents_extra_data.json): 33 of 52 entries resolve,
severity critical lands on 5, source reads "XDR Agent", and the anchor falls
through to the alert's detection timestamp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ id: cortex_xdr
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name: Cortex XDR
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version: 1.3.0
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description: "Palo Alto Cortex XDR (public API v1) — incident and alert ingestion + write-back, endpoint isolation/scan/delete/tagging, RTR scripts, hash block/allow lists, file quarantine/restore/retrieval, alert exclusions, external alert push (parsed/CEF), device-control violations, audits, distributions and RBAC/risk."
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changelog: "1.3.0 — Alert ingestion, and the alerts endpoint answers at last: get_alerts was sending the incidents dialect ({filters, search_from, search_to, sort}) to a grid endpoint that speaks request_data.filter_data (SEARCH_FIELD/SEARCH_TYPE/SEARCH_VALUE blocks, paging.from/to, sort as a list), and every call came back HTTP 500. Body rebuilt from the reference client, rows unwrapped out of their alert_fields envelope, severity code and the dotted status.progress key derived into readable fields. Alert ingestion: get_alerts is now a fetch command (results path reply.alerts, dedup on alert_id, incremental on source_insert_ts) with a bundled OCSF mapper and a Cortex XDR Alert incident type, so detections can be ingested alongside — or instead of — incidents. The incident mapper is fixed on the way past: its severity expression compared strings, which the mapping engine cannot do, so every ingested incident silently took the rule's default severity; it also now carries a detection anchor so MTTD is measurable. It pages past the API's 100-results-per-call ceiling, and sorts oldest-first on an incremental fetch so a truncated window drops the alerts the next poll can still see. 1.2.1 — Connection troubleshooting: the URL is normalised to the tenant host (a pasted /public_api/v1 or console path no longer breaks the call), a non-JSON reply reports the status, content type and body instead of a bare JSON parse error, missing key/key ID is caught up front, nonce and timestamp are sent in both auth modes as the reference client does, and test_connection now probes get_incidents. 1.2.0 — Incident write-back (update_incident: status/severity/assignment/resolve comment) and external alert push (insert_parsed_alerts, insert_cef_alerts). 1.1.0 — Full command coverage: added delete/alias/tag endpoints, abort scan, original alerts, script metadata/code/snippet/exec-status, file retrieval (+details), alert exclusions, device-control violations, audits, distribution url/status/create and RBAC (users, roles, groups, risk score, risky users/hosts). 1.0.0 — Initial release: incident ingestion (get_incidents) with OCSF mapper, endpoints, isolate/unisolate, scan, hash blocklist/allowlist, quarantine/restore, run script + results, alerts retrieval, distributions and action status. Standard or Advanced API authentication."
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changelog: "1.3.0 — Richer incident ingestion (fetch_incidents, on get_multiple_incidents_extra_data): incidents now arrive with their alerts in full and their file/network artifacts, where get_incidents only ever answered a 21-field summary carrying neither hosts, users, MITRE nor a single alert. Alert ingestion, and the alerts endpoint answers at last: get_alerts was sending the incidents dialect ({filters, search_from, search_to, sort}) to a grid endpoint that speaks request_data.filter_data (SEARCH_FIELD/SEARCH_TYPE/SEARCH_VALUE blocks, paging.from/to, sort as a list), and every call came back HTTP 500. Body rebuilt from the reference client, rows unwrapped out of their alert_fields envelope, severity code and the dotted status.progress key derived into readable fields. Alert ingestion: get_alerts is now a fetch command (results path reply.alerts, dedup on alert_id, incremental on source_insert_ts) with a bundled OCSF mapper and a Cortex XDR Alert incident type, so detections can be ingested alongside — or instead of — incidents. The incident mapper is fixed on the way past: its severity expression compared strings, which the mapping engine cannot do, so every ingested incident silently took the rule's default severity; it also now carries a detection anchor so MTTD is measurable. It pages past the API's 100-results-per-call ceiling, and sorts oldest-first on an incremental fetch so a truncated window drops the alerts the next poll can still see. 1.2.1 — Connection troubleshooting: the URL is normalised to the tenant host (a pasted /public_api/v1 or console path no longer breaks the call), a non-JSON reply reports the status, content type and body instead of a bare JSON parse error, missing key/key ID is caught up front, nonce and timestamp are sent in both auth modes as the reference client does, and test_connection now probes get_incidents. 1.2.0 — Incident write-back (update_incident: status/severity/assignment/resolve comment) and external alert push (insert_parsed_alerts, insert_cef_alerts). 1.1.0 — Full command coverage: added delete/alias/tag endpoints, abort scan, original alerts, script metadata/code/snippet/exec-status, file retrieval (+details), alert exclusions, device-control violations, audits, distribution url/status/create and RBAC (users, roles, groups, risk score, risky users/hosts). 1.0.0 — Initial release: incident ingestion (get_incidents) with OCSF mapper, endpoints, isolate/unisolate, scan, hash blocklist/allowlist, quarantine/restore, run script + results, alerts retrieval, distributions and action status. Standard or Advanced API authentication."
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category: endpoint
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# Per-instance configuration. The base URL is the tenant API root, e.g.
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# ── Ingestion ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- id: get_incidents
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name: cortex-xdr-get-incidents
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description: "Fetch Cortex XDR incidents for ingestion. Returns {reply:{incidents:[...]}}; use reply.incidents as the alert rule results path."
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description: "List Cortex XDR incidents as a 21-field summary (no hosts, no users, no MITRE, no alerts). Cheap to poll, but for ingestion prefer cortex-xdr-fetch-incidents, which returns the same incidents with their alerts and artifacts. Returns {reply:{incidents:[...]}}."
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risk: read
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inputs_schema:
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properties:
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results_path: reply.incidents
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dedup_key: incident_id
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incremental_field: created_after
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- id: fetch_incidents
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name: cortex-xdr-fetch-incidents
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description: "Fetch incidents WITH their alerts and artifacts (get_multiple_incidents_extra_data) — the ingestion command to prefer. get_incidents answers with a 21-field summary carrying no hosts, no users, no MITRE and none of the alerts; this one returns 39 incident fields, every alert in full (156 fields each) and the file/network artifacts. Records are flattened, so mapping expressions written against get_incidents keep working and alerts[], file_artifacts[], network_artifacts[] sit beside them. Returns {reply:{incidents:[...]}}."
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risk: read
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inputs_schema:
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properties:
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status: { type: string, description: "Comma-separated statuses to keep (new, under_investigation, resolved_threat_handled…)" }
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created_after: { type: string, description: "Lower bound on creation_time, ISO8601 or epoch ms (incremental fetch watermark)" }
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limit: { type: number, description: "Maximum incidents to fetch (default 50, paged 50 at a time). A full incident weighs a few KB and up to a few hundred with its alerts, so raise this knowingly." }
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exclude_artifacts: { type: boolean, description: "Drop the file and network artifact blocks, keeping the alerts (lighter payload)" }
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required: []
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outputs_schema: { properties: {} }
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ingest:
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results_path: reply.incidents
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dedup_key: incident_id
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incremental_field: created_after
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- id: get_incident_extra_data
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name: cortex-xdr-get-incident-extra-data
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description: "Get full incident data including its alerts and network artifacts by incident ID."
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