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title: "Sitecore Cortex Reporting service"
slug: "sitecore-cortex-reporting-service"
abstract: "Overview of Sitecore Cortex Reporting supported infrastructure, references, and scaling."
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# Sitecore Cortex Reporting service

The Sitecore Cortex™ Reporting service provides a service for storing and querying reporting data. The service is only used by the Experience Optimization feature to write personalization rules to the xDB Reporting database.

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<summary><h2>Supported infrastructure</h2></summary>

You can host the Sitecore Cortex Reporting service on:

- IIS
- [Azure App Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/)

Refer to the [Sitecore compatibility table](https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/087164) for compatible versions.

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<summary><h2>Reference structure</h2></summary>

The Sitecore Cortex Reporting service has its place in the Sitecore reference structure. It can be referenced by other roles, and it can also reference other roles.

![Illustration showing the Sitecore Cortex Reporting service's place in the Sitecore reference structure.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/100/platform-administration-and-architecture/images/cortex-reporting.PNG)

### Referenced by

The Sitecore Cortex Reporting service role is referenced by the following roles:

- [Content Management](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/100/platform-administration-and-architecture/content-management--cm-.html "Content Management (CM)")

### References

The Sitecore Cortex Reporting service references the following roles:

#### Storage roles

| Role name | Connection string name | Type | Port | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [xDB Reporting database](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/100/platform-administration-and-architecture/xdb-reporting-database.html) | reporting | SQL | 443 |  |

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<summary><h2>Privacy and security</h2></summary>

Assuming default behavior, the Sitecore Cortex Reporting service does not handle personal data.

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