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# Create a featured alert field

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### Notice

Featured alert fields require a Cortex XDR Pro license.
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To help you to track alerts involving specific hosts, users, and IP addresses, you can label specific alert attributes as featured fields. Alerts that contain a matching featured field value are identified with a ![featured-alert-field-flag.png](/files/hUs5we3Enl06Hu919qpe) flag in the **Alert Name** field of the **Alerts** table. After setting up featured fields, you can use them filter the **Alerts** table and to create incident scoring rules.

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### Note

Featured Active Directory values are displayed in the **User** and **Host** fields accordingly.
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How to create a featured alert field

1. Go to Incident Response → Incident Configuration → **Featured Fields** and select a type of featured field.
2. Click **Add featured \<field-type>** and select one of the following options:
   * **Create New**

     To create a new featured alert field from scratch, enter one or more field-type values and click **Add**.
   * **Upload from File**

     To upload field values from a CSV file, upload your file and click **Import**. Click **Download example file** to ensure you are using the correct format.
3. Find alerts containing featured alert fields.

   In the **Alerts** table, use the **Contains Featured** filters.
4. (Optional) Create an incident scoring rule using the **Contains Featured** fields to further highlight and prioritize alerts containing the Host, User, and IP address attributes. For more information, see [Set up incident scoring](/cortex-xdr-3.x/cortex-xdr-3.x-documentation/configure-incidents-and-alerts/prioritize-incidents-with-starring-and-scoring/incident-scoring/set-up-incident-scoring.md).


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